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Science in Israel, 1996-2000
Israel's world share of science and social science papers over a recent five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields in the ISI database. Also, Israel's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Israel |
Relative
impact compared to world
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| Mathematics |
2.95 |
-2 |
| Computer Science |
2.36 |
+34 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
1.68 |
-22 |
| Economics & Business |
1.59 |
+10 |
| Physics |
1.54 |
+31 |
| Education |
1.52 |
-28 |
| Immunology |
1.41 |
-25 |
| Molecular Biology |
1.39 |
+9 |
| Neurosciences |
1.38 |
-3 |
| Clinical Medicine |
1.35 |
-16 |
| Engineering |
1.27 |
+16 |
| Space Science |
1.26 |
+36 |
| Social Sciences |
1.26 |
-29 |
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**<--- Israel's overall percent share, all
fields: 1.25 --->** |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
1.20 |
+13 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
1.16 |
+5 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
0.99 |
-17 |
| Microbiology |
0.89 |
-14 |
| Chemistry |
0.84 |
+27 |
| Materials Science |
0.84 |
+52 |
| Pharmacology |
0.74 |
+2 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
0.73 |
-11 |
| Geosciences |
0.72 |
-13 |
Between 1996 and 2000, ISI indexed 43,674 papers that listed at least one author address in Israel. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals categorized under the heading of mathematics. As the right-hand column indicates, the impact score (that is, average citations per paper) of mathematics papers from Israel was just 2% below the average in the field during the five-year period (1.25 citations per paper for Israel versus a world average of 1.27 citations). Meanwhile, in Israel's next-highest field of concentration in the ISI database, the impact of computer-science papers from Israel exceeded the world impact mark by 34%. Israel's strength in the physical sciences was further evident in physics (31% above the world mark), space science (36% above), chemistry (+27%), and, most notably, in materials science (+52%).
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