What's New in Research: August 6, 2007
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Science in Sweden, 2002-06

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 2002 and 2006, Thomson Scientific indexed 79,065 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 18% below the 2002-06 world average for the field (8.66 cites per paper for Sweden, versus a world mark of 10.62 cites per paper). On the other hand, Sweden-based researchers performed strongly in most of the other fields shown, notably in agricultural sciences (68% above the world average), ecology/environmental (41% above), plant & animal sciences (+33%), mathematics (+32%) and physics (+32%).

SOURCE: National Science Indicators, 1981-2006 (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 Sweden, 1997-April 30, 2007.

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