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Country Profile of Italy, 1998-2008
Italy According to Essential Science Indicators SM from Thomson Reuters, among the 147 top-performing countries in all fields, Italy ranked #7 for citations (4,167,807), #8 for papers (400,229), and #26 (10.41) for citations per paper. This feature includes rankings in all fields for Italy for the time period of 1998-October 31, 2008.
Ranked by Citations
Rank       Field Papers Citations Citations
Per Paper
1 Clinical Medicine  99,536 1,325,892 13.32
2 Physics  49,537 467,309 9.43
3 Chemistry  42,251 448,895 10.62
4 Biology & Biochemistry  24,093 307,856 12.78
5 Neuroscience & Behavior  17,994 258,134 14.35
6 Molecular Biology & Genetics  11,945 244,025 20.43
7 Space Science  11,899 178,330 14.99
8 Engineering  32,768 140,734 4.29
9 Immunology  6,158 121,629 19.75
10 Plant & Animal Science  16,442 101,197 6.15
11 Geosciences  12,301 99,237 8.07
12 Pharmacology & Toxicology  8,548 93,344 10.92
13 Materials Science  10,581 63,630 6.01
14 Environment/Ecology  7,275 60,724 8.35
15 Microbiology  5,310 59,767 11.26
16 Agricultural Sciences  6,707 47,532 7.09
17 Psychiatry/Psychology  4,549 44,407 9.76
18 Mathematics  13,009 39,193 3.01
19 Computer Science  11,926 35,474 2.97
20 Social Sciences, General  3,569 14,194 3.98
21 Economics & Business  3,494 14,045 4.02
22 Multidisciplinary  337 2,259 6.7
SOURCE: Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Reuters.

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