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Science in South Korea, 2001-05

South Korea's world share of science and social-science papers over a recent five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 20 fields in the Thomson Scientific database. Also, South Korea's relative citation impact compared to the world average in ach field, in percentage terms.

Between 2001 and 2005, Thomson Scientific indexed 91,509 papers that listed at least one author address in South Korea. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals indexed in the category of materials science. As the right-hand column indicates, materials science is also the field in which South Korea's citations-per-paper average compared most favorably with the world mark, matching the world score with an average of 2.53 cites per paper. (South Korea's relative impact was also comparatively robust in plant & animal sciences, with its average of 2.66 cites per paper scoring just 12% below the world average of 3.02 cites). Although not yet attaining the world mark in any of the other fields shown here, South Korean performance was relatively strong in physics, chemistry, and agricultural sciences.

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.

10-year country rankings for South Korea, 1996-October 31, 2006.

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