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Science in Belgium, 2002-06
Belgium'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, Belgium's relative citation impact compared to the world
average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field |
Percentage
of papers from Belgium |
Relative
impact compared to world
|
|
Microbiology |
2.15 |
+7 |
| Plant &
Animal Sciences |
1.77 |
+18 |
| Space
Science |
1.75 |
-1 |
|
Ecology/Environmental |
1.73 |
+22 |
|
Economics & Business |
1.71 |
-8 |
| Clinical
Medicine |
1.64 |
+43 |
|
Immunology |
1.61 |
-7 |
|
Agricultural Sciences |
1.58 |
+37 |
|
Pharmacology |
1.52 |
+27 |
| Molec.
Biol./Genetics |
1.41 |
+1 |
| Biology
& Biochemistry |
1.43 |
+10 |
|
**<---
Belgium's overall percent share, all
fields: 1.42 --->** |
|
Mathematics |
1.40 |
+16 |
|
Psychology/Psychiatry |
1.37 |
+3 |
| Physics
|
1.35 |
+17 |
|
Engineering |
1.33 |
+38 |
|
Neurosciences & Behavior |
1.32 |
-3 |
| Computer
Science |
1.28 |
+6 |
|
Chemistry |
1.24 |
+11 |
|
Geosciences |
1.14 |
+18 |
|
Materials Science |
1.06 |
+18 |
| Social
Sciences |
0.80 |
+4 |
Between 2002 and 2006,
Thomson Scientific indexed 57,769 papers that listed at least one author
address in Belgium. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in
journals classified under the heading of microbiology, followed by plant
& animal sciences and space science. The impact of microbiology papers
from Belgium, as the right-hand column indicates, exceeded the world
average by 7% during the five-year period (7.39 cites per paper for
Belgium, versus the world baseline of 6.93 cites per paper). Belgian
research also registered strongly in clinical medicine (43% above the
world mark), engineering (38% above), and agricultural sciences (37%
above).
View
the 10-year country rankings for
Belgium
1997-August 31, 2007.
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