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Science in Scotland, 2000-04
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.
View
the 10-year country rankings for Scotland, 1995-2005.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Scotland |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
| Plant & Animal Sciences |
2.16 |
+34 |
| Space Science |
2.09 |
+55 |
| Microbiology |
2.02 |
+16 |
| Molec. Biol./Genetics |
1.96 |
+24 |
| Education |
1.73 |
-21 |
| Ecology/Environmental |
1.67 |
+48 |
| Biology & Biochemistry |
1.57 |
+28 |
| Geosciences |
1.57 |
+16 |
| Social Sciences |
1.55 |
+5 |
| Economics & Business |
1.42 |
-11 |
| Immunology |
1.35 |
-7 |
| Clinical Medicine |
1.27 |
+33 |
| Neurosciences & Behavior |
1.23 |
+8 |
|
**<---
Scotland's overall percent share, all
fields: 1.21 --->** |
| Psychology/Psychiatry |
1.20 |
+8 |
| Agricultural
Science |
1.16 |
+57 |
| Pharmacology |
1.06 |
+64 |
| Mathematics |
0.91 |
+25 |
| Engineering |
0.90 |
+12 |
| Physics |
0.79 |
+65 |
| Computer Science |
0.77 |
+1 |
| Chemistry |
0.76 |
+9 |
| Materials Science |
0.50 |
+3 |
Between 2000 and 2004, Thomson Scientific indexed 45,772 papers that listed at least one author address in Scotland. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of plant & animal sciences. In that field, as the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper impact of research from Scotland exceeded the world average by 34% (3.85 cites per paper for Scotland versus the world baseline of 2.87 cites). The relative impact of papers with Scotland-based authors was also particularly high in physics (65% above the world average), pharmacology (64% above), agricultural sciences (+57%), space science (+55%), and ecology/environmental sciences (+48%).
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