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Science in Canada, 2001-05
Canada'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, Canada's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Canada |
Relative
impact compared to world
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| Psychology/Psychiatry |
7.40 |
+10 |
| Geosciences |
7.36 |
+10 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
7.20 |
+18 |
| Social Sciences |
6.41 |
-2 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
6.37 |
+7 |
| Neurosciences & Behavior |
6.36 |
+5 |
| Economics & Business |
6.23 |
-11 |
| Computer Science |
5.53 |
+13 |
| Molecular Biology |
5.41 |
+2 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
5.08 |
+6 |
| Mathematics |
4.86 |
+8 |
| Engineering |
4.65 |
+5 |
| Education |
4.62 |
+23 |
| Space Science |
4.58 |
+57 |
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**<---
Canada's overall percent share, all
fields: 4.55 --->** |
| Clinical Medicine |
4.51 |
+35 |
| Immunology |
4.46 |
Even |
| Agricultural Sciences |
4.23 |
+13 |
| Microbiology |
4.19 |
+3 |
| Pharmacology |
4.10 |
+18 |
| Chemistry |
3.01 |
+15 |
| Materials Science |
2.95 |
+1 |
| Physics |
2.68 |
+33 |
Between 2001 and 2005, Thomson
Scientific indexed 178,212 papers that listed at least one author address in Canada. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of psychology/psychiatry, followed by geosciences and ecology/environmental sciences. As the right hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average for psychology/psychiatry papers from Canada was 10% above the world average in the field (4.05 cites per paper for Canada versus 3.67 cites for the world). The impact of Canadian research exceeded the world average in all but two of the fields shown here, with particularly impressive performance in fields where Canada's representation in the database was close to or below its 4.55% overall share; these included space science (57% above the world mark), clinical medicine (35% above), and physics (+33%). In immunology, the impact of Canadian papers happened to match the world average exactly: 10.64 cites per paper.
View
the 10-year country rankings for Canada,
1995-December 31, 2005
- 10-year country profile for Canada,
1994 - October 31, 2004
- 10-year country profile for Canada,
1992 - April 30, 2002
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