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Science in the United Kingdom, 2002-06

The United Kingdom's world share of science and social-science papers over a recent five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields in the Thomson Scientific database. Also, the U.K.'s relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.

Between 2002 and 2006, Thomson Scientific indexed 352,340 papers that listed at least one author address in a United Kingdom nation (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland). Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of space science, followed by education and general social sciences. As the right-hand column indicates, the citations-per-paper average for U.K. research in space science was 28% above the world average (9.61 cites per paper for the U.K. versus 7.53 for the world). Aside from scoring just below the world impact average in education, U.K.-based researchers surpassed the world mark in all the other fields shown here, with especially notable performance in plant & animal science (+57% above the world average), agricultural sciences (55% above), physics (+41%), ecology/environmental (+38%), and pharmacology (+38%).

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.

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