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Science in Austria, 1998-2002
Austria'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, Austria's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Austria |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Clinical Medicine |
1.34 |
-3 |
| Immunology |
1.34 |
-12 |
| Neurosciences |
1.01 |
-6 |
| Geosciences |
0.98 |
-14 |
| Computer Science |
0.98 |
-19 |
| Molecular Biology |
0.97 |
+26 |
| Space Science |
0.96 |
-23 |
| Physics |
0.96 |
+22 |
| Mathematics |
0.96 |
+7 |
|
**<---
Austria's overall percent share, all
fields: 0.95 --->** |
| Microbiology |
0.95 |
-7 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
0.93 |
-5 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
0.90 |
-9 |
| Chemistry |
0.81 |
+9 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
0.81 |
+15 |
| Pharmacology |
0.78 |
+11 |
| Materials Science |
0.72 |
+4 |
| Economics & Business |
0.66 |
-25 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
0.64 |
-7 |
| Engineering |
0.64 |
+10 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
0.53 |
-15 |
| Social Sciences |
0.35 |
-16 |
Between 1998 and 2002, Thomson ISI indexed 34,156 papers that listed at least one author address in Austria. Among those papers, Austria's largest representation was shared equally (1.34%) in two separate fields: clinical medicine and immunology. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper score for clinical-medicine papers from Austria was just 3% below the world average in (4.58 citations per paper for Austria, versus a world baseline of 4.72 citations). Austria's performance was notably strong in molecular biology(26% above the world mark), physics (+22%), and ecology/environmental (+15%).
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