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South Korean Science, 2000-04
South Korea's world share of science and social-science papers over a recent five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 20 fields in the Thomson Scientific database. Also, South Korea's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
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the 11-year country rankings for South Korea.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from South Korea |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Materials Science |
5.72 |
-1 |
| Computer Science |
4.76 |
-40 |
| Engineering |
4.15 |
-26 |
| Physics |
4.15 |
-16 |
| Pharmacology |
3.16 |
-42 |
| Chemistry |
2.76 |
-18 |
| Microbiology |
2.19 |
-50 |
|
**<--- South Korea's overall percent share, all
fields: 2.15 --->** |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
1.85 |
-40 |
| Mathematics |
1.79 |
-27 |
| Agricultural Sciences |
1.68 |
-20 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
1.47 |
-37 |
| Clinical Medicine |
1.24 |
-35 |
| Neurosciences & Behavior |
1.23 |
-43 |
| Economics & Business |
1.20 |
-36 |
| Immunology |
1.19 |
-57 |
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
1.14 |
-18 |
| Molecular Biology & Genetics |
1.07 |
-44 |
| Geosciences |
0.91 |
-32 |
| Space Science |
0.86 |
-31 |
| Social Sciences |
0.53 |
-44 |
Between 2000 and 2004, Thomson Scientific indexed 81,057 papers that listed at least one author address in South Korea. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals indexed in the category of materials science. Materials research, in fact, as the right-hand column indicates, is the field in which South Korea's citations-per-paper average compared most favorably with the world average, at just 1% below (2.28 cites per paper for South Korea, versus the world figure of 2.30 cites). Although not yet attaining the world mark in any of the fields shown here, South Korean performance was also comparatively strong in physics, chemistry, and plant & animal sciences.
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