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Norwegian Science, 1999-2003

Norway'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 Thomson Scientific database. Also, Norway's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.

See the 10-year Country Rankings for NORWAY.

Between 1999 and 2003, Thomson Scientific indexed 24,913 papers that listed at least one author address in Norway. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of geosciences, followed by ecology/environmental sciences. In both of those fields, as the right-hand column indicates, Norway's citations-per-paper average, or impact, surpassed the world average. (In geosciences, for example, the impact of papers from Norway was 16% above the world mark: 3.97 cites for Norway versus an average of 3.41 cites for the world.) In addition to its exceptional score in ecology/environmental sciences (46% above the world mark), Norway posted notably high marks in agricultural sciences (+39%), clinical medicine (+25%), and engineering (+25%).

SOURCE: National Science Indicators, 1981-2003 (containing listings of output and citation statistics for more than 170 countries; available in standard and deluxe versions from the Research Services Group.

See the 10-year Country Rankings for NORWAY.

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