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Science in Scotland, 2001-05

Scotland's world share of science and social-science papers over a recent five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields in the Thomson Scientific database. Also, Scotland's citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.

Between 2001 and 2005, Thomson Scientific indexed 46,519 papers that listed at least one author address in Scotland. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of space science, followed by plant & animal sciences and microbiology. In space science, as the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper impact of research from Scotland exceeded the world average by 73% (12.98cites per paper for Scotland versus the world baseline of 7.50 cites). The relative impact of papers from Scotland-based authors was also notably high in pharmacology (80% above the world average), agricultural sciences(63% above), physics (+59%), and ecology/environmental sciences (+55%).

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.

View the 10-year country rankings for Scotland, 1996-October 31, 2006.

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