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South Korean Science, 1995-99
(South Korea's world share of science and social-science papers over the last five years, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 20 fields in the ISI database. Also, South Korea's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.)
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from S.
Korea |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Materials Science |
3.26 |
-24 |
| Engineering |
2.53 |
-41 |
| Physics |
2.51 |
-44 |
| Computer Science |
2.35 |
-44 |
| Chemistry |
1.78 |
-40 |
| Pharmacology |
1.63 |
-59 |
| Microbiology |
1.17 |
-38 |
|
**<--- S.
Korea's overall percent share, all
fields: 1.17 --->** |
| Mathematics |
1.11 |
-44 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
1.03 |
-60 |
| Economics & Business |
0.81 |
-38 |
| Astrophysics |
0.62 |
-30 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
0.61 |
-21 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
0.57 |
-48 |
| Immunology |
0.53 |
-64 |
| Clinical Medicine |
0.51 |
46 |
| Neuroscience |
0.44 |
-45 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
0.43 |
-33 |
| Molecular Biology |
0.42 |
-71 |
| Geosciences |
0.39 |
-57 |
| Social Sciences |
0.27 |
-40 |
Between 1995 and 1999, ISI indexed 40,108 papers that listed at least one author address in South Korea. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals indexed in the category of materials science. Physical sciences, in fact, predominate at the top of the list, illustrating South Korea's concentration in those fields. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper impact of research from South Korea registered below the world average in all the fields listed above (fields in which South Korean researchers contributed at least 200 papers to the ISI database during the five-year period). Nevertheless, the nation performed relatively strongly in materials (24% below the world average: 1.39 cites per paper for South Korea, versus the world baseline of 1.84 cites) and in agricultural sciences (-21%).
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