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
http://sciencewatch.com/dr/rs/08sep-rs/
August 14th, 2009 at 7:43 AM
This is great news Masha’Allah, didn’t know about it!
Thx for sharing! =)
November 19th, 2009 at 4:55 AM
Masha’ALLAH, this is amazing. Its great to know that we are on a right path now. Insha’ALLAH, we will set an example for the world soon.
January 10th, 2010 at 6:10 PM
It was during musharraf time and not any more; thanks to democracy
as u know “Jamhoriat bahtareen intaqaam hai”
January 31st, 2010 at 12:13 AM
good to know that there is some sanity and sincere work going on, but we as a nation need to work a lot. we cannot just sit around and be happy with present, we have to make the future.