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Science in Ireland, 1999-2003

Ireland'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, Ireland's citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.

Between 1999 and 2003, Thomson Scientific indexed 13,608 papers that listed at least one author address in Ireland. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals categorized under the heading of agricultural sciences. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper figure for agricultural-sciences papers from Ireland exceeded the world average by 36% (3.05 citations per paper for Ireland versus a world mark of 2.25 citations). Ireland's citation performance was also strong in molecular biology/genetics (despite contributing only 318 Thomson-indexed papers to this field over the five-year period, Ireland-based scientists apparently had a hand in at least a few highly cited reports), immunology, ecology/environment, and chemistry. In engineering, the performance of published research from Ireland happened to match the world average precisely: 1.54 cites per paper.

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.

View Ireland's 10 year country rankings for the period: January 1994 to October 31, 2004 View Ireland's 10 year country rankings for the period: January 1993 to October 31, 2003

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