Austria'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, Austria's relative citation impact compared to the world
average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field
|
Percentage of papers
from Austria
|
Relative impact
compared to world
|
|
Space Science
|
1.37
|
-15
|
|
Clinical Medicine
|
1.29
|
+26
|
|
Immunology
|
1.27
|
+16
|
|
Geosciences
|
1.13
|
+14
|
|
Computer Science
|
1.12
|
-1
|
|
Mathematics
|
1.10
|
+29
|
|
Molecular Biology & Genetics
|
1.06
|
+33
|
|
Neuroscience & Behavior
|
1.05
|
+4
|
|
Physics
|
1.00
|
+67
|
|
Microbiology
|
1.00
|
+22
|
|
Plant & Animal Science
|
0.99
|
+33
|
|
Biology & Biochemistry
|
0.96
|
+3
|
|
Economics & Business
|
0.96
|
-25
|
|
Austria's overall percent share, all fields:
0.96
|
|
Environment/Ecology
|
0.91
|
+2
|
|
Pharmacology & Toxicology
|
0.87
|
+15
|
|
Materials Science
|
0.85
|
+25
|
|
Chemistry
|
0.72
|
+17
|
|
Engineering
|
0.69
|
+10
|
|
Psychiatry/Psychology
|
0.65
|
+11
|
|
Agricultural Sciences
|
0.55
|
+17
|
|
Social Sciences
|
0.41
|
-9
|
Between 2004 and 2008, Thomson Reuters indexed 46,849 papers that listed at
least one author address in Austria. Of those papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals categorized under the heading of space
science. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper (impact)
average for space science papers from Austria during 2004-08 was 15% below
the world impact figure in that field (6.05 citations per paper for
Austria, versus a world mark of 7.14 cites per paper). By contrast, the
impact of Austria-based authors exceeded the world figure in numerous
fields, notably physics (67% above the world mark), molecular biology &
genetics (33% above), and plant & animal science (also +33%).
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).
