Week of February 24, 2008
Russia'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
Scientific database. Also, Russia's relative citation impact
compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field
|
Percentage of papers
from Russia
|
Relative impact
compared to world
|
|
Physics
|
7.46
|
-19
|
|
Space Science
|
7.01
|
-51
|
|
Geosciences
|
6.71
|
-53
|
|
Chemistry
|
5.28
|
-64
|
|
Mathematics
|
4.41
|
-39
|
|
Russia's overall percent share, all fields:
2.84
|
|
Materials Science
|
2.81
|
-48
|
|
Engineering
|
2.54
|
-28
|
|
Molecular Biology
|
2.25
|
-69
|
|
Biology & Biochemistry
|
2.22
|
-62
|
|
Microbiology
|
1.51
|
-40
|
|
Plant & Animal Sciences
|
1.44
|
-56
|
|
Ecology/ Environmental
|
1.08
|
-36
|
|
Agricultural Sciences
|
0.97
|
-57
|
|
Neurosciences & Behavior
|
0.66
|
-58
|
|
Psychology/ Psychiatry
|
0.57
|
-64
|
|
Computer Science
|
0.54
|
-16
|
|
Clinical Medicine
|
0.47
|
-53
|
|
Pharmacology
|
0.33
|
-27
|
|
Immunology
|
0.33
|
-49
|
|
Social Sciences
|
0.33
|
-5
|
|
Economics & Business
|
0.25
|
-18
|
Between 2002 and 2006, Thomson Scientific indexed 115,199 papers that
listed at least one author address in Russia. Of those papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals categorized under the heading of physics.
As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper (impact) average
for physics papers from Russia during 2002-06 was 19% below the world
impact figure in that field (3.07 citations per paper for Russia, versus a
world figure of 3.7 cites per paper). Although the impact of Russian
research has yet to attain the world average in any of the fields shown,
the nation demonstrated comparatively strong performance not only in
physics but in computer science, general social sciences, and economics
& business.
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).
