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Science in Scotland,
1997-2001
Scotland'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, Scotland's citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Scotland |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
2.26 |
+32 |
| Microbiology |
2.07 |
+4 |
| Molecular Biology |
1.90 |
+5 |
| Geosciences |
1.73 |
+6 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
1.73 |
+42 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
1.67 |
+15 |
| Space Science |
1.66 |
+38 |
| Social Sciences |
1.58 |
-1 |
| Economics & Business |
1.48 |
-19 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
1.44 |
+48 |
| Education |
1.40 |
-23 |
| Clinical Medicine |
1.33 |
+28 |
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**<---
Scotland's overall percent share, all
fields: 1.26 --->** |
| Immunology |
1.25 |
-12 |
| Neurosciences |
1.25 |
+6 |
| Pharmacology |
1.23 |
+53 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
1.15 |
+11 |
| Mathematics |
1.07 |
+7 |
| Engineering |
0.99 |
-1 |
| Computer Science |
0.87 |
-9 |
| Chemistry |
0.78 |
+6 |
| Physics |
0.75 |
+26 |
| Materials Science |
0.57 |
+5 |
Between 1997 and 2001, ISI indexed 44,735 papers that listed at least one author address in Scotland. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of plant & animal sciences. In that field, as the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper impact of research from Scotland exceeded the world average by 32% (3.45 cites per paper for Scotland versus the world baseline of 2.62 cites). The relative-impact scores for Scotland were also notably high in pharmacology (53% above the world average), agricultural sciences (+48%), ecology/environmental sciences (+42%), and space science (+38%).
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