The United Kingdom's world share of science and social-science papers over
a recent five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of
22 fields in
the
Thomson Reuters database. Also, the U.K.'s relative citation
impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field
|
Percentage of papers from Science in the
U.K.
|
Relative impact
compared to world
|
|
Space Science
|
17.10
|
+28
|
|
Education
|
16.64
|
+4
|
|
Economics & Business
|
14.75
|
+4
|
|
Social Sciences
|
14.46
|
+8
|
|
Psychology/Psychiatry
|
12.67
|
+13
|
|
Molecular Biology & Genetics
|
11.02
|
+27
|
|
Geosciences
|
11.00
|
+33
|
|
Neurosciences & Behavior
|
10.68
|
+20
|
|
Immunology
|
10.17
|
+12
|
|
Clinical Medicine
|
10.10
|
+24
|
|
Microbiology
|
9.69
|
+26
|
|
Biology & Biochemistry
|
9.04
|
+29
|
|
United Kingdom's overall percent share, all fields:
8.62
|
|
Ecology/Environmental
|
8.32
|
+36
|
|
Plant & Animal Science
|
7.81
|
+53
|
|
Engineering
|
7.54
|
+6
|
|
Pharmacology
|
7.17
|
+37
|
|
Computer Science
|
6.76
|
+1
|
|
Mathematics
|
6.50
|
+17
|
|
Physics
|
6.31
|
+40
|
|
Chemistry
|
5.75
|
+24
|
|
Materials Science
|
5.46
|
+20
|
|
Agricultural Sciences
|
5.31
|
+56
|
Between 2003 and 2007, Thomson Reuters indexed 366,880 papers that listed
at least one author address in a United Kingdom country (England, Scotland,
Wales, and Northern Ireland). Of those papers, the highest percentage
appeared in journals classified under the heading of space science,
followed by education and economics & business. As the right-hand
column indicates, the citations-per-paper average for U.K. research in
space science was 28% above the world average (9.99 cites per paper for the
U.K. versus 7.80 for the world). United Kingdom-based researchers surpassed
the world mark in all the other fields shown here, with notably strong
performance in agricultural sciences (+56% above the world average), plant
& animal science (53% above), physics (+40%), pharmacology (+37%), and
ecology/environmental (+36%).
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).
