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Science in Sweden, 2000-04

Sweden'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, Sweden's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, expressed as a percentage.

Between 2000 and 2004, Thomson Scientific indexed 75,657 papers that listed at least one author address in Sweden. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of immunology. As the right-hand column indicates, the citations-per-paper (impact) mark for Swedish immunology papers was 28% below the 2000-04 world average for the field (7.49 cites per paper for Sweden, versus a world mark of 10.34 cites per paper). On the other hand, in Sweden's next-highest field of concentration in the Thomson database, ecology/environment, the nation exceeded the world impact average by 50%. In all but four of the fields shown above, in fact, researchers in Sweden surpassed the world impact figure, notably in engineering (28% above the world average), chemistry (30% above), physics (+36%), and especially in agricultural sciences (+57%).

SOURCE: National Science Indicators, 1981-2004 (containing listings of output and citation statistics for more than 170 countries; available in standard and deluxe versions from the Research Services Group.

View the 10-year country rankings & graphs for Sweden, 1995-April 30, 2005.    View the 10-year country rankings & graphs for Sweden, 1994-June 30, 2004.   - Country profile for Sweden.

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