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December 17, 2001
             

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Science in China, 1996-2000

World share of science and social science papers for the People's Republic of China over a recent five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 21 fields in the ISI database. Also, China's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.

     Field

Percentage of papers from China

Relative impact compared to world
Materials Science 7.08 -38
Physics 6.06 -50
Mathematics 5.61 -28
Chemistry 5.04 -46
Engineering 4.70 -41
Computer Science 3.19 -27
Geosciences 3.07 -46

**<---  China's overall percent share, all fields: 2.88 --->**
Space Science 2.62 -60
Pharmacology 2.47 -58
Economics & Business 1.95 -21
Ecology/Environmental 1.92 -35
Agricultural Sciences 1.36 -9
Plant & Animal Sciences 1.27 -33
Biology & Biochemistry 1.23 -64
Social Sciences 1.08 -36
Clinical Medicine 1.04 -36
Microbiology 0.91 -39
Psychology/Psychiatry 0.82 -41
Neuroscience 0.76 -40
Molecular Biology 0.75 -56
Immunology 0.59 -56

Between 1996 and 2000, ISI indexed 100,241 papers that each listed at least one author address in the People's Republic of China. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of materials science, followed by physics and mathematics. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper score for materials-sciences papers from researchers in China was 38% below the world average in (1.19 citations per paper for China, versus a world average of 1.92 citations per paper). While not yet reaching the world average in any of the fields shown, China's strongest showings were in agricultural sciences (9% below the world impact average), economics & business (-21%), and computer science (-27%).

SOURCE: National Science Indicators, 1981-2000 (containing listings of output and citation statistics for more than 90 countries; available in standard and deluxe versions from the Research Services Group.


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