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Science in Ireland, 2000-04
Ireland's world share of science and social-science papers over a recent five-year period, expressed as a percentage of paers in each of 21 fields in the Thomson Scientific database. Also, Ireland's citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Ireland |
Relative
impact compared to world
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| Agricultural Sciences |
1.12 |
+43 |
| Microbiology |
0.64 |
-2 |
| Economics & Business |
0.50 |
-23 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
0.48 |
-3 |
| Mathematics |
0.43 |
-3 |
| Clinical Medicine |
0.42 |
+7 |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
0.42 |
-6 |
| Space Science |
0.42 |
-28 |
| Immunology |
0.40 |
+24 |
| Social Sciences |
0.39 |
-8 |
|
**<---
Ireland, 2000-04's overall percent share, all
fields: 0.38 --->** |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
0.36 |
-13 |
| Neurosciences & Behavior |
0.36 |
-15 |
| Computer Science |
0.34 |
+10 |
| Pharmacology |
0.34 |
-19 |
| Engineering |
0.34 |
+7 |
| Geosciences |
0.32 |
+14 |
| Physics |
0.31 |
-4 |
| Materials Science |
0.30 |
+13 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
0.30 |
-17 |
| Molec. Biol./Genetics |
0.29 |
+110 |
| Chemistry |
0.27 |
+8 |
Between 2000 and 2004, Thomson Scientific indexed 14,266 papers that listed at least one author address in Ireland. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals categorized under the heading of agricultural sciences. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper figure for agricultural-sciences papers from Ireland exceeded the world average by 42% (3.42 citations per paper for Ireland versus a world mark of 2.40 citations). Ireland's citation performance was also notably strong in molecular biology/genetics (Ireland-based researchers contributed to just 317 papers in this field during the five-year period, but clearly this number included at least a few very highly cited reports). Other areas of solid marks in relative impact were immunology, computer science, geosciences, and materials science.
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