Percentiles

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Percentiles

The Percentiles page displays data on the minimum number of citations needed to meet four percentile breakdowns within the scientific fields.

How to read this table: the Percentiles page is divided into sections for each individual scientific field, with the "All Fields" section combining all data. Within each section are rows for the four percentile breakdowns (0.01%, 0.1%, 1%, and 10%). Data for the percentiles are given for the last 10 years, with the "All Years" column using all data for those years.

See the picture below. In the Chemistry portion of the table, a value of 66, for instance, in the 0.01% column for 1998 indicates that the top 0.01% of papers in chemistry journals in that year have since been cited a minimum of 66 times.

List of Fields

ISI Essential Science Indicators Web product
categorizes papers into fields of research. They are:

Agricultural Sciences
Biology & Biochemistry
Chemistry
Clinical Medicine
Computer Science
Ecology/Environment
Economics & Business
Engineering
Geosciences
Immunology
Material Sciences

Mathematics
Microbiology
Molecular Biology & Genetics
Multidisciplinary
Neuroscience & Behavior
Pharmacology & Toxicology
Physics
Plant & Animal Science
Psychology/Psychiatry
Social Sciences, general
Space Science