Germany's world share of science and social-science papers over the last
five years, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 21 fields in the
Thomson Reuters database. Also, Germany's relative citation
impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
|
Field
|
Percentage of papers
from Germany
|
Relative impact
compared to world
|
|
Space Science
|
15.69
|
+36
|
|
Physics
|
10.62
|
+39
|
|
Geosciences
|
9.87
|
+40
|
|
Neurosciences & Behavior
|
9.87
|
+7
|
|
Molecular Biology & Genetics
|
9.82
|
+12
|
|
Microbiology
|
9.03
|
+16
|
|
Clinical Medicine
|
8.71
|
+10
|
|
Mathematics
|
8.52
|
+11
|
|
Chemistry
|
8.50
|
+20
|
|
Germany's overall percent share, all fields:
8.22
|
|
Immunology
|
8.18
|
+7
|
|
Materials Sciences
|
7.71
|
+18
|
|
Biology & Biochemistry
|
7.69
|
+17
|
|
Psychology/Psychiatry
|
7.39
|
-5
|
|
Plant & Animal Science
|
6.99
|
+36
|
|
Pharmacology
|
6.80
|
+19
|
|
Computer Science
|
6.29
|
+8
|
|
Ecology/Environmental
|
6.11
|
+18
|
|
Agricultural Sciences
|
5.94
|
+9
|
|
Engineering
|
5.79
|
+23
|
|
Economics & Business
|
5.04
|
-22
|
|
Social Sciences
|
3.30
|
-19
|
Between 2003 and 2007, Thomson Reuters indexed 349,959 papers that listed
at least one author address in Germany. Of those papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of space
science, followed by physics and geosciences. In space science, Germany's
impact score of 10.61 cites per paper surpassed the world average of 7.80
cites by 36%. Similarly, except for the three social-science fields shown
above, Germany's relative-impact score impressively exceeded the world
average, notably in geosciences (40% above), physics (+39%), and plant
& animal science (+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).
