According to the latest in-cites statistics, published this month, the Netherlands in number 4, measured over the last 10 years for the field of Economics & Business. I think this is a very good result, but at the same time I think it is very difficult to reach this average as a school. still it is a nice figure to remember as a general benchmark. This is the overal list:
( in-cites, January 2006, Citing URL: http://www.in-cites.com/countries/top20eco.html)
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| RANK | COUNTRY | PAPERS | CITATIONS | CITATIONS PER PAPER |
| 1 | USA |
62,633 |
392,238 |
6.26 |
| 2 | ENGLAND |
15,012 |
65,196 |
4.34 |
| 3 | CANADA |
7,307 |
31,642 |
4.33 |
| 4 | NETHERLANDS |
4,208 |
16,831 |
4 |
| 5 | FRANCE |
4,251 |
15,569 |
3.66 |
| 6 | AUSTRALIA |
4,493 |
12,611 |
2.81 |
| 7 | GERMANY |
4,694 |
12,388 |
2.64 |
| 8 | ISRAEL |
1,725 |
9,130 |
5.29 |
| 9 | SWEDEN |
1,956 |
8,506 |
4.35 |
| 10 | ITALY |
2,468 |
7,488 |
3.03 |
| 11 | SPAIN |
2,609 |
7,430 |
2.85 |
| 12 | BELGIUM |
1,742 |
7,240 |
4.16 |
| 13 | SCOTLAND |
1,646 |
5,894 |
3.58 |
| 14 | SWITZERLAND |
1,333 |
5,634 |
4.23 |
| 15 | HONG KONG |
693 |
5,222 |
7.54 |
| 16 | JAPAN |
2,019 |
4,713 |
2.33 |
| 17 | PEOPLES R CHINA |
1,820 |
4,572 |
2.51 |
| 18 | SOUTH KOREA |
1,181 |
3,861 |
3.27 |
| 19 | DENMARK |
1,222 |
3,805 |
3.11 |
| 20 | NORWAY |
1,043 |
3,324 |
3.19 |
