Belgium'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
Clarivate database. Also, Belgium's relative citation
impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
Field
Percentage of papers from Belgium
Relative impact
compared to world
Microbiology
2.14
+15
Space Science
1.84
-6
Plant & Animal Sciences
1.81
+19
Economics & Business
1.76
-5
Ecology/Environmental
1.74
+32
Clinical Medicine
1.67
+49
Agricultural Sciences
1.64
+42
Immunology
1.62
-6
Psychology/Psychiatry
1.50
+7
Pharmacology
1.48
+29
Molecular Biology & Genetics
1.48
+4
Belgium's overall percent share, all fields:
1.43
Biology & Biochemistry
1.41
+23
Mathematics
1.40
+33
Neurosciences & Behavior
1.35
+3
Engineering
1.34
+32
Physics
1.33
+14
Computer Science
1.29
+11
Chemistry
1.24
+14
Geosciences
1.16
+32
Materials Science
1.03
+21
Social Sciences
0.86
+11
Between 2003 and 2007, Clarivate indexed 60,868 papers that listed at
least one author address in Belgium. Of those papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of
microbiology, followed by space science and plant & animal science. The
impact of microbiology papers from Belgium, as the right-hand column
indicates, exceeded the world average by 15% during the five-year period
(8.23 cites per paper for Belgium, versus the world baseline of 7.13 cites
per paper). The impact of papers from Belgium-based authors was also
notably strong in clinical medicine (49% above the world average),
agricultural sciences (42% above), and in ecology/environmental,
engineering, and geosciences (all +32%).
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).