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Science in Canada, 2002-06

Canada's world share of science and social-science papers over the last five years, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields in the Thomson Scientific database. Also, Canada's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.

Between 2002 and 2006, Thomson Scientific indexed 188,856 papers that listed at least one author address in Canada. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of psychology/psychiatry, followed by geosciences and ecology/environmental sciences. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average for psychology/psychiatry papers from Canada was 7% above the world average in the field (4.04 cites per paper for Canada versus 3.77 cites for the world). In 21 of the 22 of the fields here (excepting economics & business), the impact of Canadian research met or exceeded the world average, with particularly strong performance in space science (57% above the world average), clinical medicine (34% above), and physics (+31%). In two fields, Canada's relative-impact scores happened to match the world mark precisely: general social sciences (2.07 cites per paper), and materials science (2.64 cites).

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 the 10-year country rankings for Canada, 1997-Feb. 28, 2007 Canada's top 10 Hot Papers  - July 2006 Canada - February 2005 (updated from Aug. 2002) Canada - August 2002

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