Total citations and average citation per article from Mainland China (ML), Japan (JP), South Korea (KR) and Taiwan (TW) from 2006 to 2015
| Total citations | Average citation | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | ML | JP | KR | TW | ML | JP | KR | TW |
| 2006 | 2506 | 6065 | 2313 | 1200 | 15.6 | 17.2 | 20.5 | 15.6 |
| 2007 | 3612 | 5424 | 2032 | 795 | 18.4 | 16.1 | 19.2 | 14.5 |
| 2008 | 3642 | 5678 | 1889 | 1516 | 14.5 | 13.7 | 14.5 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 3723 | 4931 | 1920 | 1331 | 14.2 | 12.8 | 17.6 | 16.0 |
| 2010 | 3126 | 3848 | 2163 | 1320 | 10.8 | 10.6 | 12.4 | 11.0 |
| 2011 | 2735 | 3055 | 1608 | 989 | 9.1 | 9.0 | 11.2 | 14.1 |
| 2012 | 2741 | 3234 | 1676 | 749 | 8.6 | 7.0 | 6.9 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 1762 | 2162 | 935 | 420 | 5.0 | 6.4 | 4.1 | 6.1 |
| 2014 | 946 | 1034 | 469 | 275 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 2.0 |
| 2015 | 277 | 232 | 159 | 62 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 |
| Total | 25 070 | 35 663 | 15 164 | 8657 | 9.0 | 9.7 | 9.2 | 9.1 |