Norway'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
Scientific database. Also, Norway's relative citation impact
compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
Field
Percentage of papers
from Norway
Relative impact
compared to world
Geosciences
1.93
+28
Plant & Animal Science
1.37
+14
Ecology/Environmental
1.36
+22
Economics & Business
1.09
-15
Psychology/Psychiatry
0.93
-7
Immunology
0.92
-14
Social Sciences
0.92
+13
Agricultural Sciences
0.89
+48
Clinical Medicine
0.86
+33
*--- Norway's overall percent share, all fields:
0.71 ---*
Neurosciences & Behavior
0.68
-3
Biology & Biochemistry
0.67
+1
Microbiology
0.63
+11
Pharmacology
0.61
+3
Molecular Biology & Genetics
0.60
-7
Mathematics
0.57
+38
Space Science
0.54
-5
Computer Science
0.52
+57
Engineering
0.46
+41
Chemistry
0.38
-5
Physics
0.36
+30
Materials Science
0.29
-7
Between 2002 and 2006,
Thomson
Scientific indexed 28,706 papers that listed at least one author
address in Norway. Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in
journals classified under the heading of geosciences, followed by plant
& animal sciences. In both of those fields, as the right-hand column
indicates, Norway's citations-per-paper average, or impact, surpassed the
world average. (In geosciences, for example, the impact of papers from
Norway was 28% above the world mark: 4.48 cites for Norway versus an
average of 3.51 cites for the world.) Papers from Norway-based authors also
performed strongly in computer science (57% above the world average),
agricultural sciences (48% above), engineering (+41%), and mathematics
(+38%).