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SCI-BYTES What's New in Research:
August 18, 2003
             

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Russian Science, 1998-2002

Russia'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, Russia's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.

     Field

Percentage of papers from Russia

Relative impact compared to world
Physics  9.27 -29
Geosciences  7.72 -60
Space Science 7.51 -54
Chemistry  6.48 -64
Mathematics  4.37 -35
Materials Science 3.80 -52
Engineering  3.48 -39

**<---  Russia's overall percent share, all fields: 3.37 --->**
Molecular Biology 2.51 -80
Plant & Animal Sciences 1.61 -61
Biology & Biochemistry 1.57 -46
Microbiology  1.50 -50
Agricultural Sciences 1.25 -61
Ecology/Environmental 1.19 -42
Computer Science 1.08 -60
Social Sciences 0.96 -66
Psychology/Psychiatry 0.73 -82
Clinical Medicine 0.47 -66
Neurosciences 0.46 -46
Economics & Business 0.39 -58
Pharmacology  0.33 -4
Immunology  0.29 -38

Between 1998 and 2002, ISI indexed 121,318 papers that listed at least one author address in Russia. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals categorized under the heading of physics, followed by geosciences and space science. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper (impact) average for physics papers from Russia during 1998-2002 was 29% below the world impact figure in that field (2.58 citations per paper for Russia, versus a world figure of 3.64 cites per paper). While the impact of Russian research has yet to match the world average in any of the fields shown, performance was comparatively strong in pharmacology (96% of the world average, or just 4% below), mathematics (65% of the world average), and immunology (62% of the world mark).

SOURCE: National Science Indicators, 1981-2002 (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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