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Science in Israel, 1998-2002
Israel'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 Thomson ISI database. Also, Israel's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Israel |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Mathematics |
2.79 |
+16 |
| Computer Science |
2.32 |
+47 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
1.74 |
-18 |
| Economics & Business |
1.53 |
+2 |
| Physics |
1.51 |
+31 |
| Neurosciences |
1.46 |
-5 |
| Education |
1.45 |
-16 |
| Molecular Biology |
1.41 |
+14 |
| Immunology |
1.40 |
-14 |
| Clinical Medicine |
1.37 |
-10 |
| Space Science |
1.32 |
+50 |
| Social Sciences |
1.27 |
-30 |
|
**<---
Israel's overall percent share, all
fields: 1.26 --->** |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
1.23 |
+2 |
| Engineering |
1.21 |
+13 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
1.20 |
+18 |
| Microbiology |
0.95 |
-5 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
0.93 |
-15 |
| Chemistry |
0.86 |
+29 |
| Materials Science |
0.78 |
+57 |
| Pharmacology |
0.78 |
+5 |
| Geosciences |
0.74 |
-10 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
0.73 |
+13 |
Between 1998 and 2002, Thomson ISI indexed 45,433 papers that
listed at least one author address in Israel. Of those papers, the
highest percentage appeared in journals categorized under the heading of mathematics. As the right-hand column indicates, the impact score (that
is, average citations per paper) of mathematics papers from Israel was 16% above the average in the field during the five-year period (1.58 citations per paper for Israel versus a world average of 1.36
citations). Meanwhile, in Israel's next-highest field of concentration in the Thomson ISI database, the impact of computer-science papers from Israel exceeded the world impact mark by 47%. Israel's
strength in the physical sciences was further evident in physics (31% above
the world mark), space science (50% above), chemistry (+29%), and
materials science (+57%).
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