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Science in Australia, 2000-04

Australia's world share of science and social-science papers over the last five years, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields in the Thomson Scientific database. Also, Australia's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
View the 10-year country rankings for Australia, 2000-04.

Between 2000 and 2004, Thomson Scientific indexed 108,750 papers that listed at least one author address in Australia. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of plant & animal sciences. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average, or impact, of reports in plant & animal sciences from Australia exceeded the world average in that field by 14% (3.28 cites per paper for Australia, versus the world average of 2.87 cites). The relative impact of Australian research was also notably strong in geosciences (23% above the world mark), space science (37% above), and mathematics (+26%).

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 for Australia, 2000-04.

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