ccording to Essential Science Indicators, among the 147 top-performing countries in all fields, Australia ranked #9 for citations, #11 for papers, and #26 for citations per paper. The tables below contain rankings of all fields in Australia. SOURCE: Essential Science Indicators from the January 1, 2006 update covering a 10-year plus 10-month period, 1995-October 31, 2006. ARCHIVE: from September 2002 - view Australia's rankings; 1992-April 30, 2002.

10-Year Country Rankings for: Australia
Total for Australia:	Papers	Citations	Citations Per Paper
	236,017	2,166,456	9.18
Rank for Australia among the 147    top performing countries:	11	9	26
Australia's most cited paper.

Rank	FIELD	PAPERS	CITATIONS	CITATIONS PER PAPER
1	CLINICAL MEDICINE	50,459	578,883	11.47
2	PLANT & ANIMAL SCIENCE	23,925	165,919	6.93
3	CHEMISTRY	16,638	152,888	9.19
4	ENGINEERING	15,068	58,521	3.88
5	BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY	14,124	198,618	14.06
6	PHYSICS	14,036	109,232	7.78
7	SOCIAL SCIENCES, GENERAL	13,429	44,220	3.29
8	GEOSCIENCES	11,275	110,304	9.78
9	ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY	9,628	85,568	8.89
10	PSYCHIATRY/PSYCHOLOGY	8,801	62,342	7.08
11	AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES	6,705	38,951	5.81
12	NEUROSCIENCE & BEHAVIOR	6,524	92,490	14.18
13	MATERIALS SCIENCE	6,291	28,905	4.59
14	MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & GENETICS	6,164	135,852	22.04
15	MATHEMATICS	5,731	19,075	3.33
16	COMPUTER SCIENCE	5,500	13,016	2.37
17	ECONOMICS & BUSINESS	4,567	13,180	2.89
18	MICROBIOLOGY	4,485	67,549	15.06
19	SPACE SCIENCE	4,405	70,150	15.93
20	IMMUNOLOGY	4,373	83,774	19.16
21	PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY	3,552	35,736	10.06
22	MULTIDISCIPLINARY	337	1,283	3.81
SOURCE: Essential Science Indicators.

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SOURCE: Essential Science Indicators