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Science in Mexico, 2001-05

Mexico's world share of science and social-science papers over a recent five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 19 fields in the Thomson Scientific database. Also, Mexico's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.

Between 2001 and 2005, Thomson Scientific indexed 28,697 papers that listed at least one author address in Mexico. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals categorized under the heading of space science. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average, or impact, of space-science papers from Mexico during that five-year period was at 82% of the world average (or 18% below, with 6.14 cites per paper for Mexico versus the world mark of 7.50 citations). Although the impact of Mexican research has yet to attain the world average in the fields shown above, the nation's relative-impact scores were comparatively strong not only in physics but in mathematics, clinical medicine, engineering, and geosciences.

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 Mexico, 1996 - December 31, 2006.   View the 10-year country rankings for Mexico, 1992 - June 30, 2002.

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