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Science in Finland, 2001-05

Finland's world share of science and social-science papers over the last five years, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields in the Thomson Scientific database. Also, Finland's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.

Between 2001 and 2005, Thomson Scientific indexed 38,148 papers that listed at least one author address in Finland. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of ecology/environmental sciences, followed by space science and neurosciences & behavior. As the right-hand column indicates, the citations-per-paper average (or impact) for ecology papers from Finland during the five-year period surpassed the world average by 31% (4.70 cites per paper for Finland, versus the world baseline of 3.59 cites per paper). Farther down the list, Finland also showed citation strength in clinical medicine (44% above the world average), physics (42% above), geosciences (+35%), and, most notably, in agricultural sciences (+72%).

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 the 10-year country rankings for Finland, 1996-June 30, 2006.     Profile of Finland, 1994 - February 29, 2004

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