Facts and Figures

Highly cited papers

Data source:

  • InCites Benchmarking & Analytics (Clarivate; Web of Science):
    Dataset: InCites Dataset + ESCI
    Document Type: Article, Review
    JIF Quartile: Q1
    Unit of measure: Documents in Top 1%, % Documents in Top 1%; Metadata
    Last update: 31. 05. 2024
  • Eurostat Data Browser - Eurostat - Population on 1 January by age and sex 2000-2023
    Eurostat Online data code: demo_pjan; DOI; Metadata
    Unit of measure: Number
    Last update: 19. 04. 2024

Number of highly cited papers per million inhabitants


Number of highly cited papers per million inhabitants
- normalized (EU-27)

Note: Normalization was performed separately for each period. Value 0 represents the country with the fewest number of citations, while value 1 represents the country with the highest number of citations.


Share of highly cited papers


Share of highly cited papers by country groups


Number of highly cited papers per million inhabitants
in the 2012 -2022 period


Share of highly cited papers
in the 2012 -2022 period