Switzerland'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, Switzerland's relative citation
impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field
|
Percentage of papers
from Switzerland
|
Relative impact
compared to world
|
|
Immunology
|
3.03
|
+27
|
|
Space Science
|
3.01
|
+51
|
|
Geosciences
|
2.70
|
+60
|
|
Molecular Biol./Genetics
|
2.55
|
+34
|
|
Neurosciences & Behavior
|
2.40
|
+14
|
|
Physics
|
2.20
|
+72
|
|
Microbiology
|
2.20
|
+39
|
|
Ecology/Environmental
|
2.20
|
+51
|
|
Clinical Medicine
|
2.15
|
+40
|
|
Biology & Biochemistry
|
1.91
|
+44
|
|
Switzerland's overall percent share, all fields:
1.90
|
|
Chemistry
|
1.80
|
+43
|
|
Pharmacology
|
1.73
|
+50
|
|
Plant & Animal Sciences
|
1.71
|
+50
|
|
Engineering
|
1.71
|
+61
|
|
Economics & Business
|
1.51
|
+5
|
|
Computer Science
|
1.49
|
+71
|
|
Psychology/Psychiatry
|
1.46
|
-7
|
|
Mathematics
|
1.38
|
+22
|
|
Materials Science
|
1.16
|
+43
|
|
Agricultural Sciences
|
1.13
|
+63
|
|
Social Sciences
|
0.97
|
+26
|
Between 2003 and 2007, Thomson Reuters indexed 80,920 papers that listed at
least one author address in Switzerland. Of those papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of immunology.
As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average for
immunology research from Switzerland surpassed the world average by 27%
(13.67 citations per paper for Switzerland, versus 10.78 for the world). In
all but one of the other fields shown, the impact of Swiss research
exceeded the world mark. The nation's performance was particularly strong
in physics (72% above the world average), computer science(71% above),
agricultural sciences (+63%) and engineering (+61%).
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).
