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Science in Belgium, 2001-05

Belgium's world share of science and social-science papers over the last five years, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 21 fields in the Thomson Scientific database. Also, Belgium's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.

Between 2001 and 2005, Thomson Scientific indexed 55,260 papers that listed at least one author address in Belgium. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of microbiology, followed by plant & animal sciences and economics & business. The impact of microbiology papers from Belgium, as the right-hand column indicates, exceeded the world average by 3% during the five-year period (7.08 cites per paper for Belgium, versus the world baseline of 6.90 cites per paper). Belgian research also registered strongly in clinical medicine (40% above the world mark), agricultural sciences (32% above) and engineering (+29%).

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 10-year country rankings for Belgium, 1996-june 30, 2006.      View the 10-year country profile for Belgium, 1993-August 31, 2003.

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