Next follows some partial study of the influence of Estonian, Finnish and Latvian computer scientists in terms of how much they have been cited. I would suggest not to take the numbers very seriously. First of all, talking about Estonia, CS is a new field here. However, there are people who have published quite a lot during the last few (2-3) years; their influence really cannot be seen yet - not in this (or in the next) year. This should be compared to the situation in Finland, where some people (e.g., Rissanen) have been active since late sixties...
Second, the next numbers are fetched from ResearchIndex, where the query was restricted to the author field. I have also made some statistics about the citations to the new papers (with year 1998 or later). RI, while very useful, is still far from being complete. Many citations are missing (since the citing papers are not online, or the RI has not found them), and therefore, just counting the ones that are present in RI might give a very wrong idea about the number of citations in general. For example, you can most probably increase your citation count by submitting to RI papers that cite your papers. ;-)
Disclaimer: I do not have any connections with ResearchIndex. All data is given on ``as is'' basis.
For final comparison, according to the CIA World Factbook, the number of population in Estonia, Finland and Latvia is 1.43, 5.17 and 2.40 millions, resp. Note that I have considered a person x to be Estonian/Finnish/Latvian, if (s)he is either born in the corresponding country, or has the corresponding nationality, or has been working in this country for a considerable period of time. (So, Grigori Mints is considered to be Estonian.)
(updated 23.12.01, previous update: 20.09.01)
If only new papers (published ≥ 1999) are counted, we get the next order. Among Estonians:
Some Finns (not complete):
Among Latvians: