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Science in Switzerland, 1998-2002
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 Thomson 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 |
3.27 |
+53 |
| Molecular Biology |
2.61 |
+25 |
| Physics |
2.41 |
+93 |
| Geosciences |
2.29 |
+39 |
| Microbiology |
2.23 |
+38 |
| Neurosciences |
2.23 |
+14 |
| Clinical Medicine |
2.03 |
+23 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
1.98 |
+40 |
| Chemistry |
1.88 |
+56 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
1.88 |
+58 |
| Pharmacology |
1.87 |
+61 |
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**<---
Switzerland's overall percent share, all
fields: 1.85 --->** |
| Space Science |
1.80 |
+24 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
1.61 |
+44 |
| Engineering |
1.15 |
+79 |
| Mathematics |
1.27 |
+30 |
| Computer Science |
1.25 |
+54 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
1.18 |
+50 |
| Materials Science |
1.08 |
+47 |
| Economics & Business |
1.07 |
+12 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
1.01 |
-11 |
| Social Sciences |
0.65 |
+5 |
Between 1998 and 2002, ISI indexed 66,772 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 all the fields listed above save for psychology/psychiatry. Swiss performance was especially impressive in physics, where the nation's citations-per-paper score was 93% above the world average (7.02 cites per paper for Switzerland versus 3.64 cites for the world). Swiss researchers scored nearly as high in engineering (79% above the world average) and were also strong in immunology (+53%), chemistry (+56%), pharmacology (+61%), ecology/environmental (+58%), and computer science (+54%).
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