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Science in Canada, 1998-2002
Canada's world share of science and social-science papers over the last five years, expressed as a percentage of papers in
each of 21 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 |
7.77 |
+5 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
7.54 |
+20 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
7.50 |
+5 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
6.47 |
+10 |
| Neurosciences |
6.32 |
+4 |
| Social Sciences |
5.95 |
-7 |
| Economics & Business |
5.77 |
-8 |
| Molecular Biology |
5.51 |
+5 |
| Education |
5.12 |
+22 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
4.99 |
+3 |
| Computer Science |
4.87 |
-3 |
| Mathematics |
4.65 |
+10 |
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**<---
Canada's overall percent share, all
fields: 4.48 --->** |
| Engineering |
4.46 |
+4 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
4.43 |
+16 |
| Clinical Medicine |
4.35 |
+36 |
| Space Science |
4.35 |
+37 |
| Immunology |
4.33 |
+8 |
| Pharmacology |
4.30 |
+19 |
| Microbiology |
4.12 |
+6 |
| Materials Science |
3.09 |
+10 |
| Chemistry |
3.02 |
+27 |
| Physics |
2.46 |
+18 |
Between 1998 and 2002, ISI indexed 161,338 papers that listed at least one author address in Canada. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified in the field of geosciences, followed by ecology/environmental sciences and psychology/psychiatry. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average for geoscience papers from Canada was 5% above the world average in the field (3.52 cites per paper for Canada versus 3.34 cites for the world). Canada also scored particularly well in clinical medicine (36% above the world average) and space science (37% above).
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