Norway'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
Thomson
Reuters database. Also, Norway's relative citation impact
compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
Field
Percentage of papers from Norway
Relative impact
compared to world
Geosciences
1.97
+32
Environment/Ecology
1.50
+26
Plant & Animal Science
1.25
+23
Economics & Business
1.19
-7
Social Sciences
1.01
+7
Immunology
0.96
-16
Psychiatry/Psychology
0.96
-20
Agricultural Sciences
0.86
+52
Clinical Medicine0.
0.84
+45
Norway's overall percent share, all fields:
0.73
Neuroscience & Behavior
0.71
+13
Computer Science
0.68
+4
Molecular Biology & Genetics
0.66
-2
Biology & Biochemistry
0.65
+2
Microbiology
0.62
+23
Mathematics
0.57
+47
Space Science
0.56
+43
Pharmacology & Toxicology
0.49
+18
Engineering
0.48
+6
Physics
0.41
+44
Chemistry
0.35
-6
Materials Science
0.32
+8
Between 2004 and 2008, Clarivate indexed 35,482 papers that listed at
least one author address in Norway. Of those papers, the highest percentage
appeared in journals classified under the heading of geosciences, followed
by environment/ecology. In both of those fields, as the right-hand column
indicates, Norway's citations-per-paper average, or impact, surpassed the
world average. (In geosciences, for example, the impact of papers from
Norway was 32% above the world mark: 5.19 cites for Norway versus an
average of 3.94 cites for the world.) Papers from Norway-based authors also
registered strongly in agricultural sciences (52% above the world figure),
mathematics (47% above), clinical medicine (+45%), and physics (+44%).