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Science in Austria, 2001-05
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.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Austria |
Relative
impact compared to world
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| Clinical Medicine |
1.38 |
+4 |
| Immunology |
1.37 |
-9 |
| Geosciences |
1.11 |
+23 |
| Mathematics |
1.09 |
+39 |
| Space Science |
1.09 |
-39 |
| Neurosciences & Behavior |
1.06 |
+7 |
| Microbiology |
1.04 |
+9 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
1.00 |
+4 |
| Physics |
1.00 |
+59 |
| Computer Science |
1.00 |
+3 |
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**<---
Austria's overall percent share, all
fields: 1.00 --->** |
| Molec. Biol./Genetics |
0.99 |
+46 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
0.93 |
-3 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
0.88 |
+13 |
| Economics & Business |
0.87 |
-35 |
| Pharmacology |
0.86 |
+5 |
| Chemistry |
0.83 |
+12 |
| Materials Science |
0.80 |
+40 |
| Engineering |
0.71 |
+14 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
0.64 |
+9 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
0.62 |
-5 |
| Social Sciences |
0.39 |
-15 |
Between 2001 and 2005, Thomson Scientific indexed 39,077 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 in (5.63 citations per paper for Austria, versus the world baseline of 5.40 citations). Austria's performance was notably strong in physics (59% above the world mark), molecular biology & genetics (46% above), materials science (+40%), and mathematics (+39%).
- View a 10-year country profile
of Austria,
1995-December 31, 2005.
- View a 10-year country profile
of Austria,
1992-February 2002.
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