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Science in the Netherlands, 2002-06

The Netherlands' 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, the Netherlands' relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.

Between 2002 and 2006, Thomson Scientific indexed 105,968 papers that listed at least one author address in the Netherlands. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of space science, followed by psychology/psychiatry. In space science, as the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average (or impact) of papers from the Netherlands exceeded the world average in the field by 33% during the five-year period (9.99 cites per paper for the Netherlands, versus a world baseline of 7.53 cites). In all but two of the fields shown above, the citations-per-paper average for research from the Netherlands surpassed the world average, with particularly strong performances in physics (56% above the world mark), agricultural sciences (50% above), chemistry (+47%), clinical medicine (+42%), and materials science (+40%).

SOURCE: National Science Indicators, 1981-2006 (containing listings of output and citation statistics for more than 170 countries; available in standard and deluxe versions from the Research Services Group.

10-year country rankings for the Netherlands, 97-June 30, 2007.

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