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Science in Singapore, 1999-2003
Singapore'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, Singapore's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
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|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Singapore, 1999-2003 |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Computer Science |
1.70 |
-18 |
| Engineering |
1.67 |
-18 |
| Materials Science |
1.43 |
-5 |
| Economics & Business |
0.84 |
-38 |
| Physics |
0.82 |
-38 |
| Mathematics |
0.66 |
+10 |
|
**<---
Singapore, 1999-2003's overall percent share, all
fields: 0.53 --->** |
| Chemistry |
0.51 |
-11 |
| Social Sciences |
0.42 |
-14 |
| Microbiology |
0.37 |
-5 |
| Molecular Biology |
0.35 |
-19 |
| Clinical Medicine |
0.32 |
-36 |
| Education |
0.30 |
-54 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
0.29 |
-14 |
| Pharmacology |
0.27 |
-40 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
0.25 |
-37 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
0.22 |
-2 |
| Immunology |
0.20 |
-33 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
0.19 |
-50 |
| Neurosciences |
0.19 |
-36 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
0.12 |
+48 |
| Geosciences |
0.10 |
-52 |
Between 1999 and 2003, Thomson Scientific indexed 19,661 papers that listed at least one author address in Singapore. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals categorized under the heading of computer science, followed closely by engineering. As the right-hand column indicates, the impact (or average citations per paper) of computer-science papers from Singapore was 18% below the average in the field during the five-year period (1.03 cites per paper for Singapore versus the world average of 1.26 citations), with an identical score recorded in engineering. On the other hand, the impact of mathematics research in
Singapore surpassed the world mark by 10%. Other areas of comparatively strong performance were materials science and microbiology (both at 95% of the world average) and plant & animal sciences (just 2% below). In agricultural sciences, Singapore-based authors contributed to only 104 Thomson-indexed papers, but at least a few of these reports, evidently, were very highly cited, giving the nation a score 48% above the world average.
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