The United Kingdom'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
Clarivate database. Also, the U.K.'s relative citation
impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
Field
Percentage of papers from Science in the
U.K.
Relative impact
compared to world
Space Science
17.10
+28
Education
16.64
+4
Economics & Business
14.75
+4
Social Sciences
14.46
+8
Psychology/Psychiatry
12.67
+13
Molecular Biology & Genetics
11.02
+27
Geosciences
11.00
+33
Neurosciences & Behavior
10.68
+20
Immunology
10.17
+12
Clinical Medicine
10.10
+24
Microbiology
9.69
+26
Biology & Biochemistry
9.04
+29
United Kingdom's overall percent share, all fields:
8.62
Ecology/Environmental
8.32
+36
Plant & Animal Science
7.81
+53
Engineering
7.54
+6
Pharmacology
7.17
+37
Computer Science
6.76
+1
Mathematics
6.50
+17
Physics
6.31
+40
Chemistry
5.75
+24
Materials Science
5.46
+20
Agricultural Sciences
5.31
+56
Between 2003 and 2007, Clarivate indexed 366,880 papers that listed
at least one author address in a United Kingdom country (England, Scotland,
Wales, and Northern Ireland). Of those papers, the highest percentage
appeared in journals classified under the heading of space science,
followed by education and economics & business. As the right-hand
column indicates, the citations-per-paper average for U.K. research in
space science was 28% above the world average (9.99 cites per paper for the
U.K. versus 7.80 for the world). United Kingdom-based researchers surpassed
the world mark in all the other fields shown here, with notably strong
performance in agricultural sciences (+56% above the world average), plant
& animal science (53% above), physics (+40%), pharmacology (+37%), and
ecology/environmental (+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).