Finland'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, Finland's relative citation
impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field
|
Percentage of papers
from Finland
|
Relative impact
compared to world
|
|
Environment/Ecology
|
1.77
|
+34
|
|
Space Science
|
1.39
|
-8
|
|
Computer Science
|
1.10
|
+2
|
|
Neuroscience & Behavior
|
1.07
|
Even
|
|
Clinical Medicine
|
1.04
|
+43
|
|
Plant & Animal Sciences
|
1.03
|
+26
|
|
Immunology
|
1.02
|
-10
|
|
Geosciences
|
1.00
|
+32
|
|
Molecular Biology & Genetics
|
0.99
|
-1
|
|
Economics & Business
|
0.97
|
-24
|
|
Psychiatry/Psychology
|
0.96
|
+6
|
|
Agricultural Sciences
|
0.95
|
+57
|
|
Microbiology
|
0.92
|
-7
|
|
Biology & Biochemistry
|
0.91
|
+4
|
|
Finland's overall percent share, all fields:
0.90
|
|
Pharmacology & Toxicology
|
0.82
|
+10
|
|
Physics
|
0.80
|
+57
|
|
Social Sciences
|
0.79
|
-2
|
|
Engineering
|
0.77
|
+20
|
|
Mathematics
|
0.66
|
+13
|
|
Materials Science
|
0.59
|
-6
|
|
Chemistry
|
0.58
|
-1
|
Between 2004 and 2008, Thomson Reuters indexed 43,795 papers that listed at
least one author address in Finland. Of those papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of
environment/ecology, followed by space science and computer science. As the
right-hand column indicates, the citations-per-paper average (or impact)
for ecology papers from Finland during the five-year period surpassed the
world average by 34% (5.94 cites per paper for Finland, versus the world
baseline of 4.43 cites per paper). Relative-impact scores for Finland were
also notably strong in agricultural sciences (57% above the world average),
physics (also 57% above), clinical medicine (+43%), and geosciences (+32%).
In neuroscience & behavior, the impact of Finland-based researchers
happened to match the world mark precisely: 8.03 citations per paper. .
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).
