France'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
Reuters database. Also, France's relative citation impact
compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field
|
Percentage of papers
from France
|
Relative impact
compared to world
|
|
Space Science
|
11.55
|
+18
|
|
Mathematics
|
11.27
|
+16
|
|
Geosciences
|
9.04
|
+21
|
|
Physics
|
7.83
|
+19
|
|
Molecular Biology
|
7.23
|
+2
|
|
Microbiology
|
7.07
|
+11
|
|
Immunology
|
6.54
|
+9
|
|
Biology & Biochemistry
|
6.26
|
1+
|
|
France's overall percent share, all fields:
5.85
|
|
Chemistry
|
5.82
|
+6
|
|
Neurosciences & Behavior
|
5.68
|
-5
|
|
Clinical Medicine
|
5.50
|
+9
|
|
Engineering
|
5.46
|
+12
|
|
Materials Science
|
5.31
|
+14
|
|
Computer Science
|
5.20
|
-5
|
|
Plant & Animal Sciences
|
4.72
|
+41
|
|
Agricultural Sciences
|
4.70
|
+25
|
|
Ecology/Environmental
|
4.67
|
+17
|
|
Pharmacology
|
4.54
|
+7
|
|
Economics & Business
|
4.06
|
-16
|
|
Psychology/Psychiatry
|
2.44
|
-5
|
|
Social Sciences
|
1.82
|
-18
|
Between 2003 and 2007, Thomson Reuters indexed 249,047 papers that listed
at least one author address in France. Of those papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals classified in the field of space science,
followed closely by mathematics. As the right-hand column shows, the
citations-per-paper average for space-science papers from France was 18%
above the world average for the field (9.17 cites per paper for France
versus 7.80 for the world). The performance of France-based researchers was
also strong in plant & animal sciences (41% above the world mark),
agricultural sciences (+25%), and geosciences (+21%).
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).
