Italy'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, Italy's relative citation impact
compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
Field
Percentage of papers from Italy
Relative impact
compared to world
Space Science
11.32
+12
Mathematics
5.97
+9
Neurosciences & Behavior
5.48
-5
Clinical Medicine
5.29
+17
Immunology
5.18
-6
Physics
5.09
+20
Geosciences
5.01
+2
Pharmacology
4.99
+3
Engineering
4.87
+5
Computer Science
4.77
+2
Molecular Biology & Genetics
4.71
-16
Italy's overall percent share, all fields:
4.46
Biology & Biochemistry
4.29
-8
Chemistry
4.15
+4
Agricultural Sciences
3.79
+21
Plant & Animal Sciences
3.61
-12
Microbiology
3.54
-14
Ecology/Environmental
3.34
-7
Economics & Business
2.83
-24
Materials Science
2.55
+8
Psychology/Psychiatry
2.16
+16
Social Sciences
1.12
+2
Between 2003 and 2007, Clarivate indexed 189,982 papers that listed
at least one author address in Italy. Of these papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of space
science, followed by mathematics and neurosciences & behavior. As the
right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average for space-science
papers from Italy was 12% above the world average in the field (8.74 cites
per paper for Italy versus the world mark of 7.80 cites per paper). The
nation also performed strongly in agricultural sciences (21% above the
world mark), physics (20% above), clinical medicine (+17%), and
psychology/psychiatry (+16%).
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).