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Science in Australia, 2002-06
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.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Australia |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
|
Education |
5.57 |
+7 |
| Plant &
Animal Sciences |
5.28 |
+13 |
|
Geosciences |
5.00 |
+23 |
|
Psychology/Psychiatry |
4.72 |
-8 |
|
Ecology/Environmental |
4.68 |
+16 |
| Social
Sciences |
4.54 |
+3 |
| Space
Science |
4.46 |
+30 |
|
Economics & Business |
4.13 |
-21 |
|
Agricultural Sciences |
4.03 |
+7 |
|
Immunology |
3.72 |
+8 |
| Clinical
Medicine |
3.28 |
+15 |
|
Microbiology |
3.02 |
+8 |
|
**<---
Australia's overall percent share, all
fields: 2.95 --->** |
|
Neurosciences & Behavior |
2.94 |
-15 |
| Biology
& Biochemistry |
2.93 |
+5 |
| Molec.
Biol. & Genetics |
2.88 |
-9 |
| Computer
Science |
2.42 |
-3 |
|
Pharmacology |
2.36 |
+10 |
|
Engineering |
2.27 |
+9 |
|
Mathematics |
2.14 |
+31 |
|
Materials Science |
1.86 |
-5 |
|
Chemistry |
1.68 |
+4 |
| Physics
|
1.64 |
+14 |
Between 2002 and 2006,
Thomson Scientific indexed 119,941 papers that listed at least one
author address in Australia. Of those papers, the highest percentage
appeared in journals classified under the heading of education. As the
right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average, or impact, of
education reports from Australia exceeded the world average in that
field by 7% (1.24 cites per paper for Australia, versus the world
average of 1.16 cites). The relative impact of Australian research was
also notably strong in mathematics (31% above the world mark), space
science (30% above), and geosciences (+23%).
View
the 10-year country rankings for
Australia,
1997-April 30, 2007.
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