Top 50 Countries in Social Science Research

 

Social Science Research(SSR) is the activity of gathering, analysing and interpreting information for a variety of social, economic, educational and political purposes. The significant contribution of research work in Social science is from many researchers across the work. In this article, phdpro provides a list of top 50 countries in social science research based on the number of documents, citations and H index from 1996 to 2018. 

Top 50 Countries in Social Science Research

Rank	Country	Documents	Citations	Self-citations	H index
1	United States	1044013	15282280	8116614	680
2	United Kingdom	352773	4896243	1644685	404
3	Australia	143307	1644709	456274	266
4	Canada	139139	1952312	405016	327
5	Germany	132110	1272530	319878	272
6	China	129500	674317	325236	178
7	France	98348	668905	148028	215
8	Spain	94165	622259	198524	187
9	Netherlands	78339	1258144	245020	283
10	Italy	71754	601847	153723	197
11	India	56638	261091	87841	130
12	Brazil	49017	186502	68614	120
13	Japan	47892	329550	74962	148
14	Sweden	43413	577217	113031	199
15	South Africa	40256	282541	94545	142
16	Russian Federation	38506	96512	38344	92
17	Belgium	34545	386773	61663	173
18	Turkey	34123	203376	51844	124
19	Israel	33002	433393	86578	186
20	Switzerland	31899	413019	55172	195
21	South Korea	30778	232546	36614	140
22	Taiwan	30035	289147	64551	155
23	Norway	28785	368182	65039	174
24	New Zealand	27039	327608	52153	163
25	Finland	25488	300964	57870	160
26	Hong Kong	25359	356766	58819	175
27	Denmark	24347	314434	45603	174
28	Malaysia	24293	98107	29887	85
29	Poland	23552	90884	26342	85
30	Portugal	19911	134542	27417	107
31	Austria	19222	190518	24984	144
32	Mexico	18792	100388	18948	100
33	Ireland	17970	172811	24442	118
34	Singapore	17913	216636	27416	144
35	Greece	17243	159788	27061	119
36	Iran	16060	66064	20015	69
37	Czech Republic	15631	63150	21301	82
38	Chile	14571	72796	20131	91
39	Croatia	12779	40092	13738	52
40	Romania	11923	30007	8363	56
41	Argentina	11499	57178	13035	77
42	Hungary	11250	60911	9070	91
43	Slovenia	10463	40552	11112	62
44	Indonesia	10069	45454	10783	71
45	Nigeria	9942	37881	9343	59
46	Colombia	9577	36073	5764	71
47	Thailand	9477	55741	8630	78
48	Slovakia	7256	26590	8575	54
49	Pakistan	6878	28242	7590	56
50	Lithuania	5912	14290	4841	42

Data Source: Scopus®