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Science in France, 1998-2002
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.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from France |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Mathematics |
12.45 |
+5 |
| Space Science |
10.36 |
+14 |
| Geosciences |
9.23 |
+16 |
| Physics |
8.63 |
+12 |
| Microbiology |
8.00 |
+8 |
| Molecular Biology |
7.94 |
-5 |
| Immunology |
7.01 |
+1 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
6.87 |
-5 |
| Chemistry |
6.70 |
+7 |
|
**<---
France's overall percent share, all
fields: 6.34 --->** |
| Neurosciences |
6.14 |
-9 |
| Materials Science |
6.07 |
+19 |
| Clinical Medicine |
5.86 |
+2 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
5.58 |
+23 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
5.39 |
+27 |
| Engineering |
5.37 |
+16 |
| Pharmacology |
5.35 |
+12 |
| Computer Science |
5.26 |
-14 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
4.37 |
+14 |
| Economics & Business |
3.44 |
-6 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
2.34 |
-13 |
| Social Sciences |
1.71 |
-24 |
Between 1998 and 2002, ISI indexed 228,185 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 (1.43 cites per paper for France versus 1.36 for the world). France also scored well in a trio of physical-sciences fields atop the list (space science, geosciences, physics), and, farther down, notably strongly in agricultural sciences (23% above the world mark) and plant & animal sciences (+27%).
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