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Science in Taiwan, 1998-2002
Taiwan'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, Taiwan's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
See Taiwan's 10 year country rankings.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Taiwan |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Computer Science |
4.03 |
-44 |
| Engineering |
3.55 |
-29 |
| Materials Science |
2.67 |
-21 |
| Physics |
1.77 |
-36 |
| Pharmacology |
1.63 |
-34 |
| Chemistry |
1.54 |
-28 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
1.41 |
-46 |
|
**<---
Taiwan's overall percent share, all
fields: 1.34 --->** |
| Mathematics |
1.27 |
-4 |
| Clinical Medicine |
1.08 |
-39 |
| Microbiology |
1.08 |
-40 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
1.05 |
-2 |
| Economics & Business |
0.95 |
-58 |
| Geosciences |
0.86 |
-31 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
0.80 |
-34 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
0.78 |
-49 |
| Neurosciences |
0.66 |
-52 |
| Molecular Biology |
0.59 |
-51 |
| Immunology |
0.58 |
-48 |
| Space Science |
0.48 |
-28 |
| Social Sciences |
0.43 |
-40 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
0.34 |
-43 |
Between 1998 and 2002, ISI indexed 48,269 papers that listed at least one author address in Taiwan. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of computer science, followed by engineering and materials science. As the right-hand column shows, the impact of Taiwanese research in computer science registered 44% below the world average (0.75 cites per paper for Taiwan, versus a world average of 1.34 cites per paper). In fact, the impact of Taiwanese research was below the world
average in all of the fields shown here (those in which Taiwan's researchers contributed at least 150 papers to the ISI database during the five-year period). In agricultural sciences, however, the impact of papers from Taiwan registered at 98% of the world average, and at 96% of the world mark in mathematics. Other areas of comparatively strong performance were engineering, materials science, and space science.
See Taiwan's 10 year country rankings.
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