Table 1. Rankings from Knowledge diffusion proxy algorithm for top 3 producer cities in 2009. In bold, we highlight cities that are present in top 10 consumers ranked according to the knowledge diffusion proxy but do not appear in top 10 cities ranked according to local citation unbalance.
| Boston | Berkeley | New Haven | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diffusion proxy | Citation unbalance | Diffusion proxy | Citation unbalance | Diffusion proxy | Citation unbalance |
| Athens | Madrid | Athens | Athens | Berlin | Vancouver |
| Madrid | Athens | Gwangju | Madrid | Athens | Paris |
| Vancouver | Vancouver | Bratislava | Bratislava | Mainz | Trieste |
| Gwangju | Moscow | Madrid | Paris | Vancouver | Athens |
| Bratislava | Paris | Vancouver | Vancouver | Gwangju | Gwangju |
| Berlin | Tokyo | Trieste | Gwangju | Trieste | Bratislava |
| Trieste | Trieste | Waco | Moscow | Bratislava | Madrid |
| Mainz | Beijing | Paris | Trieste | Coventry | Liverpool |
| Paris | Berlin | Berlin | Seoul | Valencia | Oxford |
| Waco | Gwangju | Mainz | Waco | Madrid | Santa Barbara |