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
|
|
Immunology
|
1.34
|
+6
|
|
Clinical Medicine
|
1.33
|
+18
|
|
Space Science
|
1.21
|
-32
|
|
Mathematics
|
1.17
|
+24
|
|
Microbiology
|
1.11
|
+7
|
|
Geosciences
|
1.09
|
+17
|
|
Neurosciences & Behavior
|
1.03
|
+3
|
|
Plant & Animal Sciences
|
1.01
|
+19
|
|
Molecular Biology & Genetics
|
1.00
|
+22
|
|
Austria's overall percent share, all fields:
0.98+
|
|
Physics
|
0.97
|
+67
|
|
Biology & Biochemistry
|
0.97
|
+8
|
|
Economics & Business
|
0.93
|
-25
|
|
Ecology/Environmental
|
0.93
|
+13
|
|
Computer Science
|
0.93
|
+10
|
|
Pharmacology
|
0.83
|
+13
|
|
Materials Science
|
0.83
|
+25
|
|
Chemistry
|
0.80
|
+11
|
|
Engineering
|
0.71
|
+9
|
|
Psychology/Psychiatry
|
0.63
|
+2
|
|
Agricultural Sciences
|
0.63
|
+8
|
|
Social Sciences
|
0.39
|
+7
|
Between 2003 and 2007, Thomson Reuters indexed 41,594 papers that listed at
least one author address in Austria. Of those, the highest percentage
appeared in journals classified under the heading of immunology, followed
closely by clinical medicine. As the right-hand column shows, the
citations-per-paper score for immunology papers from Austria was 6% above
the world average (11.46 citations per paper for Austria, versus the world
baseline of 10.78 citations). In all but two of the fields shown above, the
impact of Austria-based researchers surpassed the world mark,
with notably strong performance in physics (67% above the world average),
materials science (25% above), and mathematics (+24%.
SOURCE:
National
Science Indicators, 1981-2007 (containing listings of output and
citation statistics for more than 170 countries; available in standard and
deluxe versions from the
Research Services Group).
