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Science in Italy, 1999-2003
Italy'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, Italy's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
See Italy's 10 year country rankings.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Italy |
Relative
impact compared to world
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| Space Science |
9.90 |
+17 |
| Mathematics |
5.71 |
+4 |
| Computer Science |
5.39 |
+5 |
| Neurosciences |
5.35 |
-16 |
| Physics |
5.32 |
+24 |
| Pharmacology |
4.99 |
-2 |
| Immunology |
4.94 |
-9 |
| Clinical Medicine |
4.87 |
+12 |
| Engineering |
4.69 |
+7 |
| Geosciences |
4.51 |
-10 |
| Molecular Biology |
4.42 |
-20 |
| Chemistry |
4.32 |
+3 |
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**<---
Italy's overall percent share, all fields: 4.28 --->** |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
4.25 |
-21 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
3.49 |
+8 |
| Microbiology |
3.46 |
-17 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
2.88 |
-11 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
2.86 |
-7 |
| Materials Science |
2.60 |
-5 |
| Economics & Business |
2.41 |
-30 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
1.83 |
+15 |
| Social Sciences |
0.94 |
+30 |
Between 1999 and 2003, Thomson ISI indexed 158,550 papers that listed at least one author address in Italy. Of these papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of space science, followed by mathematics and computer science. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average for space-science papers from Italy was 17% above the world average in the field (8.40 cites per paper for Italy, versus the world mark of 7.18 cites per paper). The nation also performed strongly in physics (24% above the world mark), psychology/psychiatry (15% above), and clinical medicine (+12%). In social sciences--the field in which Italy's representation in the database was the lowest during the five-year period--the impact of the nation's papers was 30% above the world mark.
See Italy's 10 year country rankings.
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