What's New in Research: March 5, 2001
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Science in Hong Kong, 1995-99

(Hong Kong's world share of science and social science papers over a recent five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 20 fields in the ISI database. Also, Hong Kong's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.)

Between 1995 and 1999, ISI indexed 15,913 papers that listed at least one author address in Hong Kong. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of economics & business. In that field, as the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average (or impact) for papers from Hong Kong was 22% below the world average in the field (1.24 cites paper for Hong Kong, versus 1.59 cites for the world). In all but three of the fields listed above (those in which Hong Kong contributed at least 100 papers to ISI-indexed journals between 1995 and 1999), Hong Kong's citations-per-paper average was below the world mark. Nevertheless, agricultural science was a bright spot, with papers from Hong Kong scoring 27% above the world average. Chemistry (+13%) also proved to be an area of strong performance, as did microbiology, where the impact of Hong Kong research happened to match the world mark exactly: 6.06 citations per paper.

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