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Science in Germany, 1998-2002
Germany'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, Germany's relative citation impact compared to the world
average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Germany, 1998-2002 |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Space Science |
14.13 |
+20 |
| Physics |
11.89 |
+32 |
| Molecular Biology |
10.12 |
+4 |
| Chemistry |
10.03 |
+19 |
| Mathematics |
9.91 |
+11 |
| Microbiology |
9.83 |
+14 |
| Neurosciences |
9.38 |
+4 |
| Materials Sciences |
9.21 |
+14 |
| Geosciences |
9.17 |
+27 |
| Clinical Medicine |
8.94 |
-2 |
|
**<---
Germany's overall percent share, all
fields: 8.81 --->** |
| Immunology |
8.14 |
+9 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
8.12 |
+14 |
| Pharmacology |
7.67 |
+9 |
| Computer Science |
7.32 |
-1 |
| Plant & Animal Science |
7.21 |
+24 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
6.93 |
+3 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
6.70 |
-18 |
| Engineering |
6.69 |
+18 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
6.23 |
+15 |
| Economics & Business |
3.54 |
-23 |
| Social Sciences |
2.96 |
-38 |
Between 1998 and 2002, ISI indexed 317,370 papers that listed at least one author address in Germany. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of space science, followed by physics and molecular biology. In all three of those fields, and in most that follow on the list, the citations-per-paper average for papers from Germany exceeded the world average, as the right-hand column shows. (In space science, for example, Germany's impact average of 9.24 cites per paper surpassed the world mark of 7.72 by 20%.) Germany's performance was even stronger in physics (32% above the world
mark) and was also notable in chemistry (+19%), geosciences (+27%), and plant & animal sciences (+24%).
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