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Science in China, 1997-2001
World share of science and social-science papers for the People's Republic of China over a recent five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields in the ISI database. Also, China's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from China |
Relative
impact compared to world
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| Materials Science |
7.93 |
-32 |
| Physics |
6.71 |
-48 |
| Mathematics |
6.13 |
-22 |
| Chemistry |
5.62 |
-43 |
| Engineering |
5.27 |
-36 |
| Geosciences |
3.68 |
-46 |
| Computer Science |
3.64 |
-25 |
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**<---
China's overall percent share, all
fields: 3.24 --->** |
| Space Science |
3.06 |
-61 |
| Pharmacology |
2.72 |
-54 |
| Economics
& Business |
2.20 |
-16 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
2.19 |
-40 |
| Education |
1.57 |
-23 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
1.48 |
-10 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
1.47 |
-33 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
1.44 |
-62 |
| Clinical Medicine |
1.20 |
-34 |
| Social Sciences |
1.19 |
-38 |
| Microbiology |
1.09 |
-37 |
| Molecular Biology |
0.89 |
-53 |
| Neurosciences |
0.87 |
-43 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
0.86 |
-38 |
| Immunology |
0.62 |
-55 |
Between 1997 and 2001, ISI indexed 114,894 papers that each listed at least one author address in the People's Republic of China. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of materials science, followed by physics and mathematics. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper score for materials-sciences papers from researchers in China was 32% below the world average in (1.33 citations per paper for China, versus a world average of 1.97 citations per paper). Although the citation impact of papers from China has not yet reached the world average in any of the fields shown, the country made comparatively strong showings in agricultural sciences (just 10% below the world average), economics & business (-16%), and mathematics (-22%).
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