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
Reuters 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
2.42
+1
Computer Science
2.02
+43
Education
1.95
Even
Psychology/Psychiatry
1.78
-11
Neurosciences & Behavior
1.55
+3
Molecular Biology & Genetics
1.44
+9
Immunology
1.44
-17
Clinical Medicine
1.41
-7
Space Science
1.38
+51
Economics & Business
1.35
-4
Physics
1.33
+48
Social Sciences
1.32
-24
Israel's overall percent share, all fields:
1.20
Biology & Biochemistry
1.19
+13
Engineering
1.07
+14
Microbiology
1.06
+18
Plant & Animal Sciences
0.97
+31
Ecology/Environmental
0.89
-5
Chemistry
0.76
+31
Geosciences
0.71
+20
Pharmacology
0.71
+8
Agricultural Sciences
0.60
+40
Materials Science
0.55
+50
Between 2003 and 2007, Clarivate indexed 51,151 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 1% above the average in the field during
the five-year period (1.46 cites per paper for Israel versus a world
average of 1.44 citations). In the next field listed, computer science,
Israel's cites-per-paper average exceeded the world mark by 43%. In most of
the other fields shown, Israel's relative-impact performance was strong,
notably in space science (51% above the world mark), physics (48% above),
agricultural sciences (+40%) and materials science (+50%). In education,
the impact of Israel-based researchers happened to match the world mark
precisely: 1.20 cites per paper.
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).