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Science in Scotland, 1998-2002
Scotland's world share of science and social-science papers over a recent five-year period, expressed as a percentage
of papers in each of 22 fields in the Thomson ISI database. Also,
Scotland's citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
See
Scotland's 10 year country rankings
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Scotland |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
2.25 |
+29 |
| Microbiology |
2.05 |
+1 |
| Molecular Biology |
1.97 |
+6 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
1.74 |
+38 |
| Space Science |
1.73 |
+32 |
| Geosciences |
1.72 |
+11 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
1.65 |
+18 |
| Social Sciences |
1.57 |
-2 |
| Economics & Business |
1.48 |
-21 |
| Education |
1.46 |
-19 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
1.40 |
+59 |
| Clinical Medicine |
1.31 |
+28 |
| Immunology |
1.30 |
-12 |
|
**<---
Scotland's overall percent share, all
fields: 1.25 --->** |
| Neurosciences |
1.22 |
+8 |
| Pharmacology |
1.18 |
+57 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
1.18 |
+13 |
| Mathematics |
1.03 |
+18 |
| Engineering |
0.99 |
-4 |
| Computer Science |
0.88 |
Even |
| Chemistry |
0.78 |
+3 |
| Materials
Science |
0.75 |
+24 |
| Physics |
0.54 |
+4 |
Between 1998 and 2002, Thomson ISI indexed 45,063 papers that listed at least one author address in Scotland. Of those
papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the
heading of plant & animal sciences. In that field, as the right-hand
column shows, the citations-per-paper impact of research from Scotland
exceeded the world average by 29% (3.52 cites per paper for Scotland
versus the world baseline of 2.72 cites). The relative-impact scores for Scotland were also notably high in agricultural sciences (59% above the world average), pharmacology (+57%), ecology/environmental sciences(+38%), and space science (+32%). In computer science, the impact of papers from Scotland happened to match the world mark precisely:1.34 cites per paper.
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