Israel's world share of science and social-science papers over a recent
five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields
in the
Thomson
Scientific database. Also, Israel's relative citation impact
compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
Field
Percentage of papers
from Israel
Relative impact
compared to world
Mathematics
2.52
+7
Computer Science
2.05
+51
Education
1.85
+3
Psychology/Psychiatry
1.78
-8
Neurosciences & Behavior
1.55
-1
Molec. Biol. & Genetics
1.47
+14
Economics & Business
1.46
-1
Immunology
1.45
-12
Space Science
1.43
+45
Clinical Medicine
1.42
-11
Physics
1.38
+35
Social Sciences
1.31
-30
Biology & Biochemistry
1.23
+9
Israel's overall percent share, all fields:
1.23
Engineering
1.13
+14
Microbiology
1.05
+7
Plant & Animal Sciences
1.03
+29
Ecology/Environmental
0.89
-11
Chemistry
0.80
+29
Geosciences
0.74
+9
Pharmacology
0.68
+19
Agricultural Sciences
0.66
+45
Materials Science
0.57
+58
Between 2002 and 2006, Thomson Scientific indexed 49,928 papers that listed
at least one author address in Israel. Of those papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals categorized under the heading of
mathematics. As the right-hand column indicates, the impact (average
citations per paper) of mathematics papers from Israel was 7% above the
average in the field during the five-year period (1.47 cites per paper for
Israel versus a world average of 1.37 citations). In the next field listed,
computer science, Israel's cites-per-paper average exceeded the world mark
by 51%. In many of the fields listed, and notably in physical-science
fields, Israel's relative-impact performance was strong, especially in
space science (45% above the world mark), physics (35% above), chemistry
(+29%) and materials science (+58%).
SOURCE:
National
Science Indicators, 1981-2006 (containing listings of output and
citation statistics for more than 170 countries; available in standard and
deluxe versions from the
Research Services Group).
Sci-Bytes : 2008 : 03.09.2008 - Science in Israel, 2002-06