Between 2004 and 2008,
Thomson
Reuters indexed 401,649 papers that listed at least one author
address in a United Kingdom region (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern
Ireland). Of those papers, the highest percentage appeared in journals
classified under the heading of space science, followed by economics &
business and general social sciences. As the right-hand column indicates,
the citations-per-paper average for U.K. research in space science was 41%
above the world average (10.06 cites per paper for the U.K. versus 7.14 for
the world). United Kingdom-based researchers surpassed the world mark in
all the other fields shown here, with notably strong performance in plant
& animal science (+61% above the world average), agricultural sciences
(55% above), physics (+46%), and pharmacology & toxicology (+44%).
Field
Percentage of papers
from the U.K.
Relative impact
compared to world
Space Science
16.20
+41
Economics & Business
14.37
+9
Social Sciences
13.83
+13
Psychiatry/Psychology
12.61
+17
Geosciences
10.66
+43
Molecular Biology & Genetics
10.60
+28
Immunology
10.07
+17
Clinical Medicine
9.56
+28
Neuroscience & Behavior
9.44
+30
Microbiology
8.98
+34
Biology & Biochemistry
8.38
+33
United Kingdom's overall percent share, all fields:
8.25
Environment/Ecology
8.21
+45
Computer Science
7.31
+17
Plant & Animal Science
7.24
+61
Engineering
7.12
+13
Pharmacology & Toxicology
6.91
+44
Physics
6.73
+46
Mathematics
5.92
+23
Chemistry
5.24
+31
Materials Science
4.90
+43
Agricultural Sciences
4.75
+55
Between 2004 and 2008, Clarivate indexed 401,649 papers that listed
at least one author address in a United Kingdom region (England, Scotland,
Wales, and Northern Ireland). Of those papers, the highest percentage
appeared in journals classified under the heading of space science,
followed by economics & business and general social sciences. As the
right-hand column indicates, the citations-per-paper average for U.K.
research in space science was 41% above the world average (10.06 cites per
paper for the U.K. versus 7.14 for the world). United Kingdom-based
researchers surpassed the world mark in all the other fields shown here,
with notably strong performance in plant & animal science (+61% above
the world average), agricultural sciences (55% above), physics (+46%), and
pharmacology & toxicology (+44%).