Australia's world share of science and social-science papers over the last
five years, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields in the
Thomson
Reuters database. Also, Australia's relative citation impact
compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field
|
Percentage of papers
from Australia
|
Relative impact
compared to world
|
|
Education
|
5.84
|
+13
|
|
Plant & Animal Sciences
|
5.29
|
+13
|
|
Geosciences
|
4.97
|
+23
|
|
Ecology/Environmental
|
4.76
|
+18
|
|
Psychology/Psychiatry
|
4.72
|
-6
|
|
Social Sciences
|
4.51
|
+2
|
|
Space Science
|
4.46
|
+22
|
|
Economics & Business
|
4.21
|
-21
|
|
Agricultural Sciences
|
4.01
|
+3
|
|
Immunology
|
3.83
|
+6
|
|
Clinical Medicine
|
3.35
|
+17
|
|
Neurosciences & Behavior
|
3.09
|
-10
|
|
Microbiology
|
3.04
|
+7
|
|
Biology & Biochemistry
|
3.00
|
+5
|
|
Australia's overall percent share, all fields:
2.99
|
|
Molecular Biology & Genetics
|
2.97
|
-5
|
|
Computer Science
|
2.45
|
-3
|
|
Pharmacology
|
2.33
|
+4
|
|
Engineering
|
2.27
|
+9
|
|
Mathematics
|
2.10
|
+15
|
|
Materials Science
|
1.88
|
+3
|
|
Physics
|
1.69
|
+23
|
|
Chemistry
|
1.69
|
+6
|
Between 2003 and 2007, Thomson Reuters indexed 127,487 papers that listed
at least one author address in Australia. Of those papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of education.
As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average, or impact,
of education reports from Australia exceeded the world average in that
field by 13% (1.35 cites per paper for Australia versus the world average
of 1.20 cites). The relative impact of Australian research was also notably
strong in geosciences (23% above the world mark), physics (23% above), and
space science (+22%)..
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).
