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Science in England, 2002-06

England'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, England's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms. These figures pertain to England alone and do not include Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland.

Between 2002 and 2006, Thomson Scientific indexed 302,355 papers that listed at least one author address in England. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of space science, followed by education and economics & business. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper score for space-science papers from England exceeded the world average in the field by 33% (10.03 average citations for England versus the world score of 7.53). In all the other fields save one (education, in which England-based researchers were just 6% below the world mark), the nation surpassed the world average, with notably strong performance in physics (43% above), agricultural sciences (+55%), and plant & animal sciences (+67%).

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.

10-year country rankings for England, 1995-June 30, 2007.

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