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Science in
Switzerland, 1997-2001
Switzerland'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, Switzerland's relative citation impact
compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Switzerland |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Immunology |
3.51 |
+62 |
| Molecular
Biology |
2.64 |
+32 |
| Physics |
2.47 |
+88 |
| Microbiology |
2.26 |
+43 |
| Geosciences |
2.25 |
+39 |
| Neurosciences |
2.20 |
+18 |
| Clinical
Medicine |
2.00 |
+20 |
| Biology
& Biochemistry |
1.98 |
+46 |
| Chemistry |
1.92 |
+56 |
|
**<---
Switzerland's
overall percent share, all fields: 1.86 --->** |
| Ecology/Environmental |
1.86 |
+55 |
| Pharmacology |
1.83 |
+54 |
| Space
Science |
1.75 |
+23 |
| Plant
& Animal Sciences |
1.59 |
+40 |
| Engineering |
1.49 |
+83 |
| Computer
Science |
1.30 |
+55 |
| Mathematics |
1.20 |
+32 |
| Agricultural
Sciences |
1.20 |
+46 |
| Materials
Science |
1.10 |
+46 |
| Economics
& Business |
1.01 |
Even |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
1.00 |
-16 |
| Social
Sciences |
0.59 |
+6 |
Between 1997 and 2001,
ISI indexed 66,051 papers that listed at least one author address in
Switzerland. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in
journals classified under the heading of immunology. As the
right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average for
research from Switzerland exceeded the world average in nearly all
the fields listed above (save for two in the social sciences). Swiss
performance was especially impressive in physics, where the nation's
citations-per-paper score was 88% above the world average (6.51
cites per paper for Switzerland vs. 3.47 cites for the world). Swiss
researchers scored nearly as high in engineering (83% above the
world average) and were also strong in immunology (+62),
chemistry(56), pharmacology (+54), ecology/environmental (+55), and
computer science (+55). In economics & business, the impact of
Swiss papers happened to match the world mark precisely: 1.66 cites
per paper.
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