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Science in Italy, 2001-05

Italy'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, Italy's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.

Between 2001 and 2005, Thomson Scientific indexed 172,699 papers that listed at least one author address in Italy. Of these papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of space science, followed by mathematics and neurosciences & behavior. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average for space-science papers from Italy was 20% above the world average in the field (8.98 cites per paper for Italy versus the world mark of 7.50 cites per paper). The nation also performed strongly in physics (23% above the world mark), computer science (17% above), clinical medicine (+13%), and agricultural sciences (+16%).

SOURCE: National Science Indicators, 1981-2005 (containing listings of output and citation statistics for more than 170 countries; available in standard and deluxe versions from the Research Services Group.

Top 3 Papers in ALL FIELDS where all the contributing authors are from Italy, 1995-December 31, 2005.    View 10-year country profile for Italy, 1995-February 28, 2005.

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