Pakistan tops the list of countries with fastest growing Scientific citations!

[NEHA]

Pakistan tops the list of countries with fastest growing Scientific citations!


This makes for a nice follow-up to the previously posted Large Hadron Collider story.

Sciencewatch is a global database that tracks scientific publications, papers and citations. Last month, Pakistan topped the list of countries with the biggest percentage increase in citations. Pakistan leads in the largest number of categories when compared to any other country. These categories include Computer Science, Engineering, Math and Materials Science.

Citations are not only a measure of the volume of work being done, but also its quality. You don’t get cited until you’ve published a piece of work of relevance to the wider community, or important to the development of your field of research. So we’re especially happy that it’s not just the volume of our scientists’ output, but also the excellence of the work that’s getting recognized. Bravo! The link and the complete table after the fold.

Reference:
September 2008 - Rising Stars - ScienceWatch.com

 

[A1Kaid]

This is a great step forward for the country and it's academics. Pakistan has always been one of the most resilient nation's on the face of this Earth, through heaven and hell, thick and thin, and now turmoil and the "War on Terror" the nation still experiences progress.

Thank you for sharing the good news.

 

[Zob]

Pakistanis are used to mashallah rising up AGAINST ALL ODDS..this is just another example...pakistan zindabad.....mashallah pakistanis are gifted but they just don't know their own potential and waste it in futile activites...

 

[sohailbutt]

Very nice news indeed, here is a very interesting quote from one of recent hollywood movies (The day the earth stood still):

"Civilizations change at the brink of extinction"

Very beautiful sentence, with a lot of meaning.

 

[TOPGUN]

Mashallah great news good to hear !