Germany'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, Germany's relative citation
impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field
|
Percentage of papers
from Germany
|
Relative impact
compared to world
|
|
Space Science
|
15.53
|
+47
|
|
Physics
|
10.81
|
+45
|
|
Molecular Biology & Genetics
|
9.79
|
+13
|
|
Neurosciences & Behavior
|
9.73
|
+13
|
|
Geosciences
|
9.71
|
+41
|
|
Microbiology
|
9.03
|
+17
|
|
Clinical Medicine
|
8.57
|
+13
|
|
Immunology
|
8.24
|
+10
|
|
Germany, 2004-08's overall percent share, all
fields: 7.95
|
|
Chemistry
|
7.89
|
+27
|
|
Biology & Biochemistry
|
7.82
|
+18
|
|
Psychiatry/Psychology
|
7.57
|
-8
|
|
Mathematics
|
7.51
|
+19
|
|
Computer Science
|
7.41
|
+14
|
|
Materials Sciences
|
7.13
|
+30
|
|
Plant & Animal Science
|
6.85
|
+45
|
|
Pharmacology & Toxicology
|
6.59
|
+17
|
|
Environment/Ecology
|
6.26
|
+22
|
|
Economics & Business
|
5.96
|
-25
|
|
Engineering
|
5.68
|
+20
|
|
Agricultural Sciences
|
5.63
|
+8
|
|
Social Sciences
|
3.61
|
-19
|
Between 2004 and 2008, Thomson Reuters indexed 386,903 papers that listed
at least one author address in Germany. Of those papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of space
science, followed by physics and molecular biology & genetics. In space
science, Germany's impact score of 10.47 cites per paper surpassed the
world average of 7.14 cites by 47%. The nation also performed strongly in
physics (45% above the world mark), plant & animal science (%45 above),
and geosciences (+41%).
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).
