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
|
|
Space Science
|
2.91
|
+75
|
|
Immunology
|
2.89
|
+32
|
|
Geosciences
|
2.82
|
+71
|
|
Molecular Biology & Genetics
|
2.49
|
+43
|
|
Neuroscience & Behavior
|
2.34
|
+23
|
|
Physics
|
2.32
|
+88
|
|
Environment/Ecology
|
2.20
|
+66
|
|
Clinical Medicine
|
2.13
|
+48
|
|
Microbiology
|
1.99
|
+40
|
|
Biology & Biochemistry
|
1.85
|
+51
|
|
Switzerland's overall percent share, all fields:
1.85
|
|
Plant & Animal Sciences
|
1.67
|
+56
|
|
Pharmacology & Toxicology
|
1.67
|
+38
|
|
Computer Science
|
1.64
|
+37
|
|
Economics & Business
|
1.64
|
+7
|
|
Psychiatry/Psychology
|
1.56
|
-1
|
|
Chemistry
|
1.55
|
+54
|
|
Engineering
|
1.41
|
+51
|
|
Agricultural Sciences
|
1.40
|
+36
|
|
Mathematics
|
1.21
|
+41
|
|
Materials Science
|
1.17
|
+77
|
|
Social Sciences
|
0.97
|
+24
|
Between 2004 and 2008, Thomson Reuters indexed 90,167 papers that listed at
least one author address in Switzerland. Of those papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of space
science. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average
for space-science research from
Switzerland surpassed the world average by 75% (12.51 citations per paper
for Switzerland versus 7.14 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 (88% above the
world average), materials science
(77% above), geosciences (+71%) and chemistry (+54%)..
SOURCE:
National Science Indicators, 1981-2008 (containing listings of
output and citation statistics for more than 170 countries; available in
standard and deluxe versions from the
Research Services Group).
