Scottish Agricultural Research Tops World League

Scotland tops the world rankings in agricultural science research. In the top 20 list of nations involved in agricultural science research, Scotland comes first, with England fourth, and the USA eleventh.

The data, collected for a recent Times Higher Education Supplement (13-19 August 2009) by US-based Thomson Reuters, involves research papers published in the last 10 years.

The rankings are based, not on the number of papers produced, but the number of times the research is quoted in other research papers.  Scotland’s 11.9 “citations” per paper beat England’s 9.75, America’s  8.36  and 6.8 for New Zealand.
 

Published on 19 August 2009