Australia'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, Australia's relative citation
impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field
|
Percentage of papers
from Australia
|
Relative impact
compared to world
|
|
Environment/Ecology
|
5.11
|
+26
|
|
Psychiatry/Psychology
|
5.03
|
-4
|
|
Geosciences
|
4.99
|
+27
|
|
Plant & Animal Sciences
|
4.90
|
+21
|
|
Economics & Business
|
4.88
|
-23
|
|
Social Sciences
|
4.83
|
+3
|
|
Space Science
|
4.41
|
+26
|
|
Agricultural Sciences
|
4.03
|
+4
|
|
Immunology
|
3.90
|
+6
|
|
Clinical Medicine
|
3.34
|
+23
|
|
Microbiology
|
3.04
|
+14
|
|
Australia's overall percent share, all fields:
3.02
|
|
Biology & Biochemistry
|
2.83
|
+7
|
|
Neuroscience & Behavior
|
2.79
|
-6
|
|
Molec. Biol. & Genetics
|
2.73
|
+1
|
|
Computer Science
|
2.70
|
+5
|
|
Engineering
|
2.32
|
+9
|
|
Mathematics
|
2.31
|
+23
|
|
Pharmacology & Toxicology
|
2.21
|
+13
|
|
Materials Science
|
1.86
|
+15
|
|
Physics
|
1.75
|
+30
|
|
Chemistry
|
1.58
|
+9
|
Between 2004 and 2008, Thomson Reuters indexed 147,081 papers that listed
at least one author address in Australia. Of those papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of
environment/ecology. As the right-hand column shows, the
citations-per-paper average, or impact, of environment/ecology reports from
Australia exceeded the world average for the field by 26% (5.56 cites per
paper for Australia versus the world mark of 4.43 cites). The relative
impact of Australian research was also notably strong in physics (30% above
the world figure), geosciences (27% above), and space science (+26%).
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).
Correction notice, October 14, 2009
The table above contains 21 fields not 22, and the listed paper dates are
2004 and 2008, not 2003 and 2007 as originally published.
