Ranking of world, including Polish, scientific institutions based on the number of citations obtained in 2021–2024

Abstract

The Scopus-SciVal database contains 23,567 entities that published at least one scientific paper in 2021–2024. The number of citations of these units was analyzed. Nine of them have received over a million citations, six of which are in China, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences is the most cited scientific institution in the world. Over 200 thousand citations were obtained by 307 institutions around the world, including one from our country (the Polish Academy of Sciences). 21 countries are represented by over 200 scientific units in each country. Poland with 268 institutions is in 18th place in the world, 6 institutions from our country are among the 1000 most frequently cited scientific units. The Polish Academy of Sciences is in 232nd place (top 0.98%). Of the first thousand most frequently cited scientific institutions in the world, 6 are located in Poland, and 24 of them are in the second thousand.