Poland's world share of science and social-science papers over a recent
five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 20 fields
in the
Thomson Reuters database. Also, Poland's relative citation
impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field
|
Percentage of papers
from Poland
|
Relative impact
compared to world
|
|
Physics
|
2.69
|
-8
|
|
Chemistry
|
2.64
|
-35
|
|
Space Science
|
2.34
|
+15
|
|
Mathematics
|
2.14
|
-18
|
|
Plant & Animal Sciences
|
2.11
|
-54
|
|
Materials Science
|
1.92
|
-44
|
|
Ecology/Environmental
|
1.63
|
-41
|
|
Poland's overall percent share, all fields:
1.47
|
|
Biology & Biochemistry
|
1.39
|
-46
|
|
Agricultural Sciences
|
1.12
|
-27
|
|
Engineering
|
1.11
|
-3
|
|
Microbiology
|
1.03
|
-53
|
|
Pharmacology
|
0.98
|
-29
|
|
Computer Science
|
0.97
|
+11
|
|
Geosciences
|
0.91
|
-29
|
|
Immunology
|
0.85
|
-46
|
|
Neurosciences & Behavior
|
0.75
|
-43
|
|
Mol. Biol. & Genetics
|
0.74
|
-47
|
|
Clinical Medicine
|
0.63
|
-7
|
|
Psychology/Psychiatry
|
0.20
|
-21
|
|
Social Sciences
|
0.18
|
-49
|
Between 2002 and 2006, Thomson Reuters indexed 59,882 papers that listed at
least one author address in Poland. Of those papers, the highest percentage
appeared in journals categorized under the heading of physics. As the
right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper (impact) average for
physics papers from Poland during 2002-06 was just 8% below the world
impact figure in that field (3.45 citations per paper for Poland, versus a
world mark of 3.77 cites per paper). In space science, on the other hand,
research from Poland exceeded the world average by 15%, while the impact
score in computer science was +11%. The nation's performance was also
comparatively strong in engineering and clinical medicine..
SOURCE:
National
Science Indicators, 1981-2006 (containing listings of output and
citation statistics for more than 170 countries; available in standard and
deluxe versions from the
Research Services Group).
