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Science in Canada
Canada'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, Canada's relative citation impact compared to the
world average in each field, in percentage terms.
See Canada's 10 year country rankings.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Canada |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Geosciences |
7.62 |
+6 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
7.38 |
+10 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
7.26 |
+20 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
6.37 |
+9 |
| Neurosciences |
6.31 |
+7 |
| Social Sciences |
6.07 |
-2 |
| Economics & Business |
6.07 |
-11 |
| Molecular Biology |
5.49 |
+4 |
| Computer Science |
5.17 |
+2 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
5.02 |
+4 |
| Education |
4.90 |
+16 |
| Mathematics |
4.73 |
+5 |
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**<---
Canada's overall percent share, all
fields: 4.51 --->** |
| Engineering |
4.47 |
+4 |
| Space Science |
4.40 |
+39 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
4.40 |
+12 |
| Clinical Medicine |
4.39 |
+36 |
| Immunology |
4.36 |
+10 |
| Pharmacology |
4.17 |
+22 |
| Microbiology |
4.11 |
+8 |
| Chemistry |
3.05 |
+20 |
| Materials Science |
3.04 |
+2 |
| Physics |
2.55 |
+32 |
Between 1999 and 2003, Thomson ISI indexed 166,068 papers that listed at least one author address in Canada. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified in the field of geosciences, followed
by psychology/psychiatry. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average for geosciences papers from Canada
was 6% above the world average in the field (3.63 cites per paper for Canada versus 3.44 cites for the world). The impact of Canadian research exceeded the world average in all but two of the fields shown here, with particularly impressive performance in fields in which Canada's representation in the database was below its 4.51% overall share; these included space science (39% above the world mark), clinical medicine (36% above), and physics (+32%).
See Canada's 10 year country rankings.
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