|
Science in Austria, 2000-04
Austria'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 Scientific database. Also, Austria's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
View
the 10-year country rankings for Austria, 1995-August 31, 2005.
|
Field |
%
of Papers from Austria |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Clinical Medicine |
1.38 |
+4 |
| Immunology |
1.36 |
-14 |
| Geosciences |
1.11 |
+8 |
| Neurosciences & Behavior |
1.04 |
+1 |
| Mathematics |
1.03 |
+26 |
| Microbiology |
1.01 |
-2 |
| Computer Science |
1.01 |
-7 |
| Physics |
1.00 |
+46 |
| Space Science |
1.00 |
-35 |
| Molecular
Biology & Genetics |
0.99 |
+40 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
0.99 |
-2 |
|
**<---
Austria's overall percent share, all
fields: 0.99 --->** |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
0.92 |
-9 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
0.87 |
+3 |
| Chemistry |
0.84 |
+15 |
| Pharmacology |
0.81 |
-1 |
| Economics & Business |
0.80 |
-31 |
| Materials Science |
0.77 |
+24 |
| Engineering |
0.72 |
+12 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
0.66 |
+8 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
0.59 |
-8 |
| Social Sciences |
0.40 |
-10 |
Between 2000 and 2004, Thomson Scientific indexed 37,226 papers that listed at least one author address in Austria. Of those, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of clinical medicine, followed closely by immunology. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper score for clinical-medicine papers from Austria was 4% above the world average(5.29 citations per paper for Austria, versus the world baseline of 5.10 citations). Austria's performance was notably strong in molecular biology & genetics (40% above the world mark), physics (+46%), mathematics (+26%), and materials science (+24%).

Previous Page | Return to SCI-BYTES
Main Menu
| Return to 2005 Menu
If you came from the Thomson Scientific Web site, click
here to return
|