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Science in Science in Ireland, 1998-2002
Ireland'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, Ireland's citation impact compared to
the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
See
Ireland's 10 year country rankings.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Ireland |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Agricultural Sciences |
1.18 |
+28 |
| Microbiology |
0.62 |
+14 |
| Economics & Business |
0.54 |
-35 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
0.47 |
-14 |
| Mathematics |
0.46 |
-3 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
0.46 |
-21 |
| Clinical Medicine |
0.40 |
Even |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
0.38 |
-5 |
| Immunology |
0.36 |
+5 |
|
**<---
Science in Ireland's overall percent share, all
fields: 0.36 --->** |
| Space Science |
0.35 |
+13 |
| Social Sciences |
0.35 |
-19 |
| Neurosciences |
0.33 |
-15 |
| Computer Science |
0.33 |
-25 |
| Engineering |
0.31 |
-1 |
| Materials Science |
0.30 |
+17 |
| Pharmacology |
0.29 |
+11 |
| Geosciences |
0.29 |
-12 |
| Physics |
0.27 |
+15 |
| Molecular Biology |
0.26 |
-1 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
0.26 |
-1 |
| Chemistry |
0.25 |
+12 |
Between 1998 and 2002, Thomson ISI indexed 12,975 papers that listed at least one author address in Ireland. Of those papers, by far, the highest percentage appeared in journals categorized under the heading of agricultural sciences. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average for agricultural-sciences papers from Ireland exceeded the world average in the field by 38% (2.77 citations per paper for Ireland versus a world mark of 2.16 citations). Ireland's
citation performance was also notably strong in microbiology, space science, materials science, and physics. In clinical medicine, the performance of papers from Ireland happened to match precisely the world average: 4.72 cites per paper.
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