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Science in Belgium, 1998-2002
Belgium'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 Thomson ISI database. Also, Belgium's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Belgium, 1998-2002 |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Microbiology |
1.97 |
+13 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
1.76 |
+17 |
| Immunology |
1.70 |
-7 |
| Clinical Medicine |
1.58 |
+28 |
| Pharmacology |
1.55 |
+12 |
| Economics & Business |
1.51 |
+12 |
| Molecular Biology |
1.48 |
-16 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
1.44 |
-1 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
1.43 |
-1 |
| Space Science |
1.37 |
-17 |
|
**<---
Belgium's, 1998-2002's overall percent share, all
fields: 1.35 --->** |
| Physics |
1.30 |
+17 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
1.29 |
+46 |
| Mathematics |
1.27 |
+26 |
| Chemistry |
1.27 |
+15 |
| Computer Science |
1.25 |
-4 |
| Neurosciences |
1.21 |
-7 |
| Engineering |
1.13 |
+27 |
| Materials Science |
1.03 |
+8 |
| Geosciences |
0.98 |
+12 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
0.93 |
-2 |
| Social Sciences |
0.58 |
-5 |
Between 1998 and 2002, Thomson ISI indexed 48,572 papers that listed at least one author address in Belgium. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of microbiology, followed by plant & animal sciences and immunology. The impact of microbiology papers from Belgium, as the right-hand column indicates, exceeded the world average by 13% during the five-year period (7.35 cites per paper for Belgium, versus the world baseline of 6.52 cites per paper). Belgian research also registered strongly in clinical medicine (28% above the world mark), agricultural sciences (+46%), and engineering (+27%).
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