Norway'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, Norway's relative citation
impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field
|
Percentage of papers
from Norway
|
Relative impact
compared to world
|
|
Geosciences
|
1.95
|
+23
|
|
Plant & Animal Science
|
1.38
|
+21
|
|
Ecology/Environmental
|
1.38
|
+24
|
|
Economics & Business
|
1.13
|
-7
|
|
Social Sciences
|
0.97
|
+7
|
|
Psychology/Psychiatry
|
0.94
|
-10
|
|
Immunology
|
0.93
|
-6
|
|
Agricultural Sciences
|
0.91
|
+56
|
|
Clinical Medicine
|
0.88
|
+35
|
|
Norway, 2003-07's overall percent share, all
fields: 0.73
|
|
Neurosciences & Behavior
|
0.72
|
+2
|
|
Biology & Biochemistry
|
0.69
|
+3
|
|
Molecular Biology & Genetics
|
0.66
|
-4
|
|
Microbiology
|
0.63
|
+15
|
|
Pharmacology
|
0.62
|
+20
|
|
Mathematics
|
0.59
|
+32
|
|
Space Science
|
0.58
|
+10
|
|
Computer Science
|
0.56
|
+71
|
|
Engineering
|
0.47
|
+37
|
|
Chemistry
|
0.39
|
-6
|
|
Physics
|
0.38
|
+30
|
|
Materials Science
|
0.30
|
-11
|
Between 2003 and 2007, Thomson Reuters indexed 30,974 papers that listed at
least one author address in Norway. Of those papers, the highest percentage
appeared in journals classified under the heading of geosciences, followed
by plant & animal sciences. In both of those fields, as the right-hand
column indicates, Norway's citations-per-paper average, or impact,
surpassed the world average. (In geosciences, for example, the impact of
papers from Norway was 23% above the world mark: 4.69 cites for Norway
versus an average of 3.80 cites for the world.) Papers from Norway-based
authors also registered strongly in computer science (71% above the world
average), agricultural sciences (56% above), engineering (+37%), and
clinical medicine (+35%).
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).
