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Science in Italy, 1995-99
(Italy's world share of science and social science papers over the last five years, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 21 fields in the ISI database. Also, Italy's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.)
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Italy |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Astrophysics |
|
-1 |
| Pharmacology |
|
-13 |
| Physics |
|
+16 |
| Neuroscience |
|
-23 |
| Computer Science |
|
+7 |
| Mathematics |
|
-2 |
| Immunology |
|
-3 |
| Clinical Medicine |
|
+6 |
| Molecular Biology |
|
-29 |
| Chemistry |
|
+7 |
| Engineering |
|
+12 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
|
-27 |
|
**<---
Italy's overall percent share, all
fields: 3.96 --->** |
| Geosciences |
|
-26 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
|
-8 |
| Microbiology |
|
-22 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
|
-21 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
|
-12 |
| Materials Science |
|
+13 |
| Economics & Business |
|
-35 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
|
+1 |
| Social Sciences |
|
+3 |
Between 1995 and 1999, ISI indexed 136,093 papers that listed at least one author address in Italy. Of these, the highest percentage of papers appeared in journals classified under the heading of astrophysics, followed by pharmacology and physics. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average for astrophysics papers from Italy was just 1% below the world average in this field (6.15 cites per paper for Italy, versus the world average of 6.24 cites per paper). Although the impact of research from Italy registered below the world average in several of the fields shown above, the nation did score well in such physical-sciences areas as physics, chemistry, engineering, and materials science.
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