Between 2004 and 2008,
Thomson
Reuters indexed 401,649 papers that listed at least one author
address in a United Kingdom region (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern
Ireland). Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals
classified under the heading of space science, followed by economics &
business and general social sciences. As the right-hand column indicates,
the citations-per-paper average for U.K. research in space science was 41%
above the world average (10.06 cites per paper for the U.K. versus 7.14 for
the world). United Kingdom-based researchers surpassed the world mark in
all the other fields shown here, with notably strong performance in plant
& animal science (+61% above the world average), agricultural sciences
(55% above), physics (+46%), and pharmacology & toxicology (+44%).
|
Field
|
Percentage of papers
from the U.K.
|
Relative impact
compared to world
|
|
Space Science
|
16.20
|
+41
|
|
Economics & Business
|
14.37
|
+9
|
|
Social Sciences
|
13.83
|
+13
|
|
Psychiatry/Psychology
|
12.61
|
+17
|
|
Geosciences
|
10.66
|
+43
|
|
Molecular Biology & Genetics
|
10.60
|
+28
|
|
Immunology
|
10.07
|
+17
|
|
Clinical Medicine
|
9.56
|
+28
|
|
Neuroscience & Behavior
|
9.44
|
+30
|
|
Microbiology
|
8.98
|
+34
|
|
Biology & Biochemistry
|
8.38
|
+33
|
|
United Kingdom's overall percent share, all fields:
8.25
|
|
Environment/Ecology
|
8.21
|
+45
|
|
Computer Science
|
7.31
|
+17
|
|
Plant & Animal Science
|
7.24
|
+61
|
|
Engineering
|
7.12
|
+13
|
|
Pharmacology & Toxicology
|
6.91
|
+44
|
|
Physics
|
6.73
|
+46
|
|
Mathematics
|
5.92
|
+23
|
|
Chemistry
|
5.24
|
+31
|
|
Materials Science
|
4.90
|
+43
|
|
Agricultural Sciences
|
4.75
|
+55
|
Between 2004 and 2008, Thomson Reuters indexed 401,649 papers that listed
at least one author address in a United Kingdom region (England, Scotland,
Wales, and Northern Ireland). Of those papers, the highest percentage
appeared in journals classified under the heading of space science,
followed by economics & business and general social sciences. As the
right-hand column indicates, the citations-per-paper average for U.K.
research in space science was 41% above the world average (10.06 cites per
paper for the U.K. versus 7.14 for the world). United Kingdom-based
researchers surpassed the world mark in all the other fields shown here,
with notably strong performance in plant & animal science (+61% above
the world average), agricultural sciences (55% above), physics (+46%), and
pharmacology & toxicology (+44%).
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).
