France'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, France's relative citation
impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
Field
Percentage of papers
from France
Relative impact
compared to world
Space Science
12.27
+21
Mathematics
9.46
+21
Geosciences
8.63
+31
Physics
7.85
+27
Microbiology
7.01
+20
France's overall percent share, all fields:
5.67
Molecular Biology & Genetics
6.57
+9
Immunology
6.56
+5
Biology & Biochemistry
5.89
+2
Computer Science
5.85
-5
Neuroscience & Behavior
5.49
Even
Clinical Medicine
5.46
+12
Chemistry
5.43
+11
Engineering
5.10
+14
Materials Science
5.08
+18
Environment/Ecology
4.88
+19
Plant & Animal Sciences
4.82
+42
Agricultural Sciences
4.50
+31
Pharmacology & Toxicology
4.15
+13
Economics & Business
4.10
-22
Psychiatry/Psychology
2.52
-19
Social Sciences
1.77
-22
Between 2004 and 2008, Clarivate indexed 276,104 papers that listed
at least one author address in France. Of those papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals classified in the field of space science,
followed closely by mathematics. As the right-hand column shows, the
citations-per-paper average for space-science papers from France was 21%
above the world average for the field (8.62 cites per paper for France
versus 7.14 for the world). The impact of the nation's research was also
notably strong in plant & animal sciences (42% above the world
average), geosciences (31% above), and agricultural sciences (+31%). In
neuroscience & behavior, France's impact score happened to match the
world mark precisely: 8.04 cites per paper.
SOURCE:
National
Science Indicators, 1981-2008 (containing listings of output and
citation statistics for more than 170 countries; available in standard and
deluxe versions from the
Research Services Group).
