Abstract. In a recently published Blog, de Moya Anegon (2011) presents aggregated bibliometric data for 50 countries worldwide having the highest paper output in the period 2004–2008 (see Fig. 1). The data for the figure are taken from the World Report SIR 2010 of the SCImago Reseach Group (2010). This report publishes quantitative data related to citation and publication “for worldwide research devoted institutions with at least 100 scientific documents published during 2008, as collected by worldwide leader scientific database Scopus.” For each institution, the so called “normalized citation impact” (Karolinska Institute method, see Rehn, Kronman, & Wadskog, 2007) is reported which “reveals the ratio between the average scientific impact of an institution and the world average impact of publications of the same time period and subject area” (SCImago Reseach Group, 2010). A normalized impact of 1 means that the publications of the institution in question are (on average) no more, no less cited than an average publication in the corresponding fields of publishing.