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Science in France,
1999-2003
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 Thomson 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 |
12.19 |
+9 |
| Space Science |
10.33 |
+10 |
| Geosciences |
9.13 |
+21 |
| Physics |
8.75 |
+14 |
| Molecular Biology |
7.84 |
-1 |
| Microbiology |
7.74 |
+11 |
| Immunology |
7.01 |
+5 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
6.85 |
-9 |
| Chemistry |
6.63 |
+6 |
|
**<---
France's overall percent share, all
fields: 6.34 --->** |
| Neurosciences |
6.11 |
-7 |
| Materials Science |
6.09 |
+18 |
| Clinical Medicine |
5.89 |
+1 |
| Pharmacology |
5.53 |
+7 |
| Engineering |
5.53 |
+15 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
5.42 |
+25 |
| Computer Science |
5.37 |
-11 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
5.23 |
+26 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
4.48 |
+13 |
| Economics & Business |
3.65 |
-3 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
2.39 |
-11 |
| Social Sciences |
1.77 |
-19 |
Between 1999 and 2003, Thomson ISI indexed 233,501 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. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average for mathematics papers from France was 9% above the world average for the field (1.44 cites per paper for France versus 1.32 for the world). France also scored well in the trio of physical-sciences fields atop the list: space science (10% above the world mark), geosciences (+21%), and physics (+14%). Farther down the list, the performance of French researchers was also notably strong in agricultural sciences (+25%) and plant & animal sciences (+26%).
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