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Science in Spain, 2002-06

Spain'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, Spain's citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.

Between 2002 and 2006, Thomson Scientific indexed 132,123 papers that listed at least one author address in Spain. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of space science, followed by agricultural sciences and mathematics. Spain's relative impact in space science, as the right-hand column indicates, was 4% above the world average for the five-year period (7.85 citations per paper for Spain versus the world mark of 7.53 cites). Meanwhile, the impact of Spanish research exceeded the world average in several other of the fields above, notably in physics (26% above the world mark), agricultural sciences (10% above), engineering (+8%), and clinical medicine (+6%).

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 Spain, 1997-April 30, 2007.

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