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Science in France, 1997-2001
France's world share of science and social-science papers over the last five years, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 21 fields in the ISI database. Also, France's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
Read an article about France's publication and citation performance in
the field of Microbiology
over the last decade covered by ISI
Essential Science Indicators
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from France |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Mathematics |
12.37 |
+5 |
| Space Science |
10.33 |
+12 |
| Geosciences |
9.29 |
+14 |
| Physics |
8.71 |
+12 |
| Microbiology |
8.06 |
+7 |
| Molecular Biology |
7.90 |
-7 |
| Immunology |
7.17 |
+6 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
6.93 |
-8 |
| Chemistry |
6.76 |
+6 |
|
**<--- France's overall percent share, all
fields: 6.36 --->** |
| Materials Science |
6.23 |
+24 |
| Neurosciences |
6.12 |
-9 |
| Clinical Medicine |
5.86 |
Even |
| Pharmacology |
5.56 |
+13 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
5.53 |
+22 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
5.48 |
+25 |
| Engineering |
5.27 |
+19 |
| Computer Science |
5.19 |
-4 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
4.32 |
+9 |
| Economics & Business |
3.20 |
-14 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
2.33 |
-12 |
| Social Sciences |
1.69 |
-28 |
Between 1997 and 2001, ISI indexed 225,633 papers that listed at least one author address in France. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified in the field of mathematics, followed by space science and geosciences. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average for mathematics papers from France was 5% above the world average for the field (1.35 cites per paper for France versus 1.29 for the world). France also showed notable strength in the physical sciences, with the impact of French research exceeding the world average in space science (+12%), geosciences (+14%), physics (+12%), chemistry (+6%), materials science (+24%), and engineering (+19%). In clinical medicine, the impact of French research happened to match the world mark precisely: 4.56 citations per paper.
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