Denmark's world share of science and social-science papers over a recent
five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 21 fields
in the
Thomson
Reuters database. Also, Denmark's relative citation impact
compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field
|
Percentage of papers
from Denmark
|
Relative impact
compared to world
|
|
Biology/Biochemistry
|
1.72
|
+20
|
|
Immunology
|
1.66
|
-14
|
|
Ecology/Environmental
|
1.62
|
+37
|
|
Microbiology
|
1.61
|
+30
|
|
Agricultural Sciences
|
1.57
|
+56
|
|
Plant & Animal Sciences
|
1.50
|
+38
|
|
Space Science
|
1.35
|
+50
|
|
Clinical Medicine
|
1.30
|
+49
|
|
Geosciences
|
1.27
|
+40
|
|
Pharmacology
|
1.17
|
+15
|
|
Economics & Business
|
1.16
|
+3
|
|
Neurosciences & Behavior
|
1.12
|
-4
|
|
Molecular Biology & Genetics
|
1.10
|
+19
|
|
Denmark's overall percent share, all fields:
1.02
|
|
Social Sciences
|
0.79
|
+21
|
|
Physics
|
0.71
|
+64
|
|
Chemistry
|
0.67
|
+47
|
|
Engineering
|
0.66
|
+58
|
|
Computer Science
|
0.65
|
+16
|
|
Mathematics
|
0.64
|
+36
|
|
Psychology/Psychiatry
|
0.61
|
+24
|
|
Materials Science
|
0.36
|
+60
|
Between 2003 and 2007, Thomson Reuters indexed 43,390 papers that listed at
least one author address in Denmark. Of those papers, Denmark's highest
percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of biology
& biochemistry. In that field, as the right-hand column indicates, the
citations-per-paper average for papers from Denmark exceeded the world
average by 20% (9.20 cites per paper for Denmark, versus a world baseline
of 7.68 citations). The nation's relative-impact performance was also
notably strong in physics (64% above the world mark), materials science
(60% above), engineering (+58%), and agricultural sciences (+56%).
SOURCE:
National
Science Indicators, 1981-2007 (containing listings of output and
citation statistics for more than 170 countries; available in standard and
deluxe versions from the
Research Services Group).
