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Ranking of Countries by Number of Scientific Papers 2000-2010. Also included: Citations, Citations per Paper, Papers per capita.

Rank	Country	Papers	Citations	Citations per paper		Country	Population	Papers per capita
1	USA	2,967,957	46,796,090	15.77		USA	310,384	9.56
2	Japan	770,252	7,877,699	10.23		Japan	126,536	6.09
3	Germany	762,599	9,960,100	13.06		Germany	82,302	9.27
4	China	719,971	4,227,779	5.87		China	1,341,335	0.54
5	England	679,394	9,979,737	14.69		United Kingdom	62,036	10.95
6	France	542,293	6,660,630	12.28		France	62,787	8.64
7	Canada	430,856	5,619,293	13.04		Canada	34,017	12.67
8	Italy	409,232	4,770,753	11.66		Italy	60,551	6.76
9	Spain	315,420	3,256,075	10.32		Spain	46,077	6.85
10	Australia	284,250	3,359,748	11.82		Australia	22,268	12.76
11	Russia	267,319	1,243,711	4.65		Russian Federation	142,958	1.87
12	India	266,230	1,497,065	5.62		India	1,224,614	0.22
13	Rep. of Korea	254,599	1,767,799	6.94		Republic of Korea	48,184	5.28
14	Netherlands	239,892	3,687,829	15.37		Netherlands	16,613	14.44
15	Brazil	190,801	1,197,953	6.28		Brazil	194,946	0.98
16	Sweden	174,052	2,548,046	14.64		Sweden	9,380	18.56
17	Switzerland	172,904	2,873,881	16.62		Switzerland	7,664	22.56
18	Taiwan	162,197	1,115,524	6.88		Taiwan	23,216	6.99
19	Poland	144,559	954,220	6.60		Poland	38,277	3.78
20	Turkey	138,345	687,389	4.97		Turkey	72,752	1.90

Source: Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Reuters, 2000 to 31 August 2010. http://sciencewatch.com/dr/cou/2010/10decALL/
Note: The table is covering almost a 10-year period since 2000.

Researchers in the United States of America have published almost 3 million scientific papers between 2000 and August 2010. During the same period China published 719,971 papers. However, in citations per paper Switzerland is the clear leader.
It is interesting to compare the scientific productivity with the population of the respective country. The number of scientific papers per capita was, by far, the highest in Switzerland - 42 times as many as in China. The "density" of scientific publications is still far higher in Europe and Northern America than in Asia.

This ranking is based on papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed journals from January 2000 through August 31, 2010, a 10-year plus 8-month period (fourth bimonthly). The listings are confined to those nations, out of a pool of 147, which published at least 10,000 papers across all fields during the period.

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