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The National Science Indicators, 1981 through the current year offers the most up-to-date measures on national performance in the sciences, social sciences and humanities from over 170 nations and four regions: Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific (excluding Japan), the European Union and Latin America.

FEATURES

Based on unique and authoritative publication and citation statistics from Thomson Scientific, National Science Indicators contains the number of Thomson Scientific-indexed papers from each nation and region and the number of times the papers were cited through the current year. Analyze the data for each year, for the entire period, the most recent five-year period, or in five-year moving windows of papers published and cited for one or any group of nations. Examine performance overall or in one or more of 24 broad subfields in the sciences and social sciences (Standard Version); or 106 narrower fields, including the humanities (Deluxe Version). View field list. Compare actual and relative performance using built-in baseline statistics. Review output, impact, citedness, and percent share figures. Plot the data over time. Make tables, charts, and graphs with just a few key strokes.

FORMATS AND DELIVERY OPTIONS

The data are delivered on CD in MS Access format with a custom Windows-based, or Web interface.

FACT SHEET

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