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Science in Germany

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

Between 2002 and 2006, Thomson Scientific indexed 340,727 papers that listed at least one author address in Germany. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of space science, followed by physics and molecular biology & genetics. In all three of those fields (and in all but three that follow), the citations-per-paper average for papers from Germany exceeded the world average, as the right-hand column shows. In space science, for example, Germany's impact score of 10.14 cites per paper surpassed the world mark of 7.53 by 35%. Germany's performance was no less impressive in physics (39% above the world mark), geosciences (35% above), and plant & animal science (+36%), with equally solid showings in engineering (+24%), chemistry (+19%) and ecology/environmental (+19%).

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.

View 10-year country rankings for Germany, 1997-February 28, 2007.

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