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Science in Australia
Australia's world share of science and social-science papers over the last five years, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields in the Thomson ISI database. Also, Australia's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
See
Australia's 10 year country rankings.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Australia |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
5.26 |
+11 |
| Geosciences |
5.17 |
+22 |
| Education |
4.74 |
+1 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
4.51 |
+11 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
4.45 |
-13 |
| Social Sciences |
4.25 |
-4 |
| Space Science |
4.19 |
+42 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
4.11 |
+18 |
| Economics & Business |
4.00 |
-32 |
| Immunology |
3.77 |
+1 |
| Microbiology |
3.06 |
+1 |
| Clinical Medicine |
2.95 |
+9 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
2.89 |
-4 |
|
**<---
Australia's overall percent share, all
fields: 2.89 --->** |
| Molecular Biology |
2.69 |
+3 |
| Neurosciences |
2.62 |
-14 |
| Computer Science |
2.51 |
+14 |
| Pharmacology |
2.42 |
+3 |
| Mathematics |
2.38 |
+24 |
| Engineering |
2.37 |
+9 |
| Materials Science |
1.76 |
-4 |
| Chemistry |
1.74 |
+4 |
| Physics |
1.60 |
+8 |
Between 1998 and 2003, Thomson ISI indexed 106,945 papers that listed at least one author address in Australia. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of plant & animal sciences. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average, or impact, of reports in plant & animal sciences from Australia exceeded the world average in that field by 11% (3.27 cites per paper for Australia, versus the world average of 2.94 cites). The relative impact of Australian research was also notably strong in geosciences, space science, agricultural sciences, and mathematics.
See
Australia's 10 year country rankings.
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