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Science in England, 2001-05

England'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, England's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms. These data pertain to England alone and do not include Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland.

Between 2001 and 2005, Thomson Scientific indexed 296,059 papers that listed at least one author address in England. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of space science, followed by education and economics & business. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper score for space-science papers from England exceeded the world average in the field by 39% (10.42 average citations for England versus the world score of 7.50). Aside from coming in just short of the mark in education, England-based researchers surpassed the world average in all the other fields shown, with notably strong performance in physics (41% above the world mark), ecology/environmental (40% above), agricultural sciences (+52%), and especially in plant & animal sciences (+63%).

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.

Country Profile for England - 1994-December 31, 2002    Science in England - (archive) January 2002

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