The Netherlands' 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 Netherlands' relative citation impact compared to the world
average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field
|
Percentage of papers
from the Netherlands
|
Relative impact
compared to world
|
|
Space Science
|
5.27
|
+38
|
|
Psychology/Psychiatry
|
4.67
|
+13
|
|
Economics & Business
|
4.22
|
+7
|
|
Immunology
|
3.95
|
-1
|
|
Clinical Medicine
|
3.72
|
+43
|
|
Neurosciences & Behavior
|
3.67
|
-1
|
|
Microbiology
|
3.23
|
+29
|
|
Ecology/Environmental
|
3.03
|
+39
|
|
Molecular Biology & Genetics
|
2.97
|
+17
|
|
Education
|
2.93
|
+49
|
|
Social Sciences
|
2.92
|
+16
|
|
Geosciences
|
2.64
|
+30
|
|
The Netherlands' overall percent share, all fields:
2.62
|
|
Pharmacology
|
2.56
|
+19
|
|
Biology & Biochemistry
|
2.53
|
+14
|
|
Plant & Animal Sciences
|
2.48
|
+46
|
|
Agricultural Sciences
|
2.40
|
+50
|
|
Computer Science
|
2.02
|
+17
|
|
Engineering
|
1.92
|
+35
|
|
Physics
|
1.77
|
+66
|
|
Chemistry
|
1.71
|
+55
|
|
Mathematics
|
1.52
|
+30
|
|
Materials Science
|
1.12
|
+44
|
Between 2003 and 2007, Thomson Reuters indexed 111,458 papers that listed
at least one author address in the Netherlands. Of those papers, the
highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of
space science, followed by psychology/psychiatry. In space science, as the
right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average (or impact) of
papers from the Netherlands exceeded the world average in the field by 38%
during the five-year period (10.73 cites per paper for the Netherlands,
versus a world baseline of 7.80 cites). In all but two of the fields shown
above, the citations-per-paper average for research from the Netherlands
surpassed the world average, with particularly strong performance in
physics (66% above the world mark), chemistry (55% above), agricultural
sciences (+50% above), education (+49%), and plant & animal sciences
(+46%).
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).
