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Science in Taiwan, 1997-2001
Taiwan's world share of science and social-science papers over a recent five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 21 fields in the ISI database. Also, Taiwan's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Taiwan |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Computer Science |
4.08 |
-38 |
| Engineering |
3.45 |
-30 |
| Materials Science |
2.55 |
-23 |
| Physics |
4.65 |
-39 |
| Pharmacology |
1.56 |
-33 |
| Chemistry |
1.48 |
-30 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
1.37 |
-44 |
| Mathematics |
1.29 |
-10 |
|
**<---
Tiawan's overall percent share, all
fields: 1.27 --->** |
| Microbiology |
1.07 |
-40 |
| Clinical Medicine |
1.02 |
-40 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
0.96 |
+4 |
| Economics & Business |
0.81 |
-52 |
| Geosciences |
0.79 |
-26 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
0.75 |
-51 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
0.74 |
-29 |
| Neurosciences |
0.63 |
-47 |
| Immunology |
0.56 |
-53 |
| Molecular Biology |
0.54 |
-55 |
| Space Science |
0.45 |
-23 |
| Social Sciences |
0.38 |
-39 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
0.33 |
-37 |
Between 1997 and 2001, ISI indexed 45,204 papers that listed at least one author address in Taiwan. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of computer science, followed by engineering and materials science. As the right-hand column shows, the impact of Taiwanese research in computer science registered 38% below the world average in computer science (0.76 cites per paper for Taiwan, versus a world average of 1.23 cites per paper). In fact, the impact of Taiwanese research was below the world average in all but one of the fields shown below (those in which Taiwan's researchers contributed at least 100 papers to the ISI database during the five-year period). In agricultural sciences, the impact of papers from Taiwan was 4% above theworld average. Other areas of comparatively strong performance were materials science, mathematics, geosciences, and space science.
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