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Science in Norway
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.
View 10-year country rankings for Norway
(1995-June 2005).
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Norway |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Geosciences |
1.84 |
+15 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
1.36 |
+29 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
1.33 |
+9 |
| Economics & Business |
1.00 |
-31 |
| Immunology |
0.93 |
-16 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
0.87 |
-13 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
0.84 |
+53 |
| Social Sciences |
0.83 |
-11 |
| Clinical Medicine |
0.81 |
+29 |
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**<---
Norway's overall percent share, all
fields: 0.68 --->** |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
0.64 |
-2 |
| Microbiology |
0.63 |
-1 |
| Neurosciences |
0.61 |
-1 |
| Molecular Biology |
0.59 |
-12 |
| Mathematics |
0.58 |
+29 |
| Pharmacology |
0.57 |
-2 |
| Space Science |
0.53 |
-19 |
| Engineering |
0.46 |
+30 |
| Computer Science |
0.45 |
+11 |
| Chemistry |
0.35 |
-1 |
| Physics |
0.34 |
+19 |
| Materials Science |
0.27 |
-3 |
Between 2000 and 2004, Thomson Scientific indexed 25,554 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 15% above the world mark: 3.89 cites for Norway versus an average of 3.38 cites for the world.) Papers with Norway-based authors also registered strongly in mathematics (29% above the world average), clinical medicine (29% above), engineering (+30%), and especially in agricultural sciences (+53%).

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