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Science in Russia, 2001-05

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

Between 2001 and 2005, Thomson Scientific indexed 119,015 papers that listed at least one author address in Russia. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals categorized under the heading of physics. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper (impact) average for physics papers from Russia during 2001-05 was 21% below the world impact figure in that field (3.01 citations per paper for Russia, versus a world figure of 3.79 cites per paper). Although the impact of Russian research has yet to attain the world average in any of the fields shown, the nation demonstrated comparatively strong performance in physics, engineering, computer science, social sciences, and economics & business.

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 Russia, 1996-October 31, 2006.

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