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Science in Switzerland, 1996-2000
Switzerland's world share of science and social-science papers over a recent five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 21 fields in the ISI database. Also, Switzerland's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Switzerland |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Immunology |
3.31 |
+47 |
| Molecular Biology |
2.65 |
+37 |
| Physics |
2.52 |
+82 |
| Microbiology |
2.26 |
+32 |
| Geosciences |
2.16 |
+27 |
| Neurosciences |
2.14 |
+25 |
| Clinical Medicine |
2.04 |
+23 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
2.01 |
+49 |
| Chemistry |
1.90 |
+51 |
|
**<--- Switzerland's overall percent share, all
fields: 1.85 --->** |
| Pharmacology |
1.83 |
+52 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
1.74 |
+43 |
| Space Science |
1.71 |
+20 |
| Plant
& Animal Sciences |
1.52 |
+32 |
| Engineering |
1.45 |
+85 |
| Computer Science |
1.26 |
+42 |
| Mathematics |
1.25 |
+15 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
1.17 |
+49 |
| Materials Science |
1.11 |
+62 |
| Economics & Business |
0.97 |
-15 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
0.97 |
-16 |
| Social Sciences |
0.52 |
Even |
Between 1996 and 2000, ISI indexed 64,427 papers that listed at least one author address in Switzerland. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of immunology. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average for research from Switzerland exceeded the world average in nearly all the fields listed above (save for three in the social sciences). Swiss performance was particularly notable in engineering, where the nation's citations-per-paper score was 85% above the overall average in the field (2.65 cites per paper for Switzerland vs. 1.43 cites for the world). Swiss researchers scored nearly as high in physics (82% above the world average) and were also strong in materials science (+62%), pharmacology (+52%), chemistry (+51%) and agricultural sciences (+49). In the general social sciences, the impact of Swiss papers happened to match the world mark exactly: 1.54 cites per paper.
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