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Science in Canada, 1997-2001
Canada's world share of science and social-science papers over the last five years, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields in the ISI database. Also, Canada's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Canada |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Geosciences |
7.82 |
+7 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
7.70 |
+20 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
7.48 |
+5 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
6.64 |
+13 |
| Neuroscience |
6.46 |
+4 |
| Social Sciences |
6.00 |
-6 |
| Economics & Business |
5.87 |
-5 |
| Molecular Biology |
5.58 |
+1 |
| Education |
5.54 |
+23 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
4.93 |
+8 |
| Computer Science |
4.85 |
+10 |
| Mathematics |
4.77 |
+16 |
|
**<---
Canada's overall percent share, all
fields: 4.53 --->** |
| Engineering |
4.51 |
+3 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
4.51 |
+23 |
| Immunology |
4.37 |
+8 |
| Space Science |
4.36 |
+33 |
| Clinical Medicine |
4.34 |
+34 |
| Pharmacology |
4.25 |
+20 |
| Microbiology |
4.13 |
+5 |
| Materials Science |
3.21 |
+15 |
| Chemistry |
3.11 |
+28 |
| Physics |
2.51 |
+20 |
Between 1997 and 2001, ISI indexed 160,576 papers that listed at least one author address in Canada. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of geosciences, followed by ecology/environmental sciences and psychology/psychiatry. In all three of those fields, as the right-hand column demonstrates--in fact, in all but two of the fields shown above--Canada's citations-per-paper average (or impact) surpassed the world average in the five-year period. In geosciences, for example, Canada's average of 3.51 cites per paper was 7% above the world average of 3.29 cites. Canadian performance was particularly strong in space science, clinical medicine, and chemistry.
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