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Norwegian Science, 2001-05

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

Between 2001 and 2005, Thomson Scientific indexed 27,041 papers that listed at least one author address in Norway. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of geosciences, followed by ecology/environmental sciences. In both of those fields, as the right-hand column indicates, Norway's citations-per-paper average, or impact, surpassed the world average. (In geosciences, for example, the impact of papers from Norway was 22% above the world mark: 4.21 cites for Norway versus an average of 3.44 cites for the world.) Papers with Norway-based authors also registered strongly in computer science (40% above the world average), mathematics (38% above), engineering (+38%), and especially in agricultural sciences (+59%).

SOURCE: National Science Indicators, 1981-2005 (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 Norway.

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