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Science in Switzerland, 1999-2003

Switzerland's world share of science and social-science papers over a recent five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 21 fields in the Thomson Scientific database. Also, Switzerland's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.

See the 10-year Country Rankings for Clinical Medicine in SWITZERLAND.

Between 1999 and 2003, Thomson Scientific indexed 69,243 papers that listed at least one author address in Switzerland. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of immunology. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average for immunology research from Switzerland exceeded the world average by 47% (14.90 citations per paper for Switzerland, versus 10.17 for the world). In only one field, psychology/psychiatry, did Swiss researchers fail to exceed the world average. While Swiss performance was particularly strong in engineering (74% above the world mark), pharmacology (+66%), and ecology/environmental (+65%), the nation's highest mark was in physics, with a score that bested the world average by 95%.

SOURCE: National Science Indicators, 1981-2003 (containing listings of output and citation statistics for more than 170 countries; available in standard and deluxe versions from the Research Services Group.

See the 10-year Country Rankings for Clinical Medicine in SWITZERLAND.

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