Sweden's world share of science and social-science papers over a recent
five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 21 fields
in the
Thomson
Reuters database. Also, Sweden's relative citation impact
compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
Field
Percentage of papers
from Sweden
Relative impact
compared to world
Immunology
3.33
-13
Environment/Ecology
2.97
+49
Biology & Biochemistry
2.34
+15
Neurosciences & Behavior
2.34
+11
Clinical Medicine
2.25
+41
Molecular Biology
2.13
+19
Space Science
1.94
+34
Economics & Business
1.91
-9
Geosciences
1.86
+30
Microbiology
1.83
+20
Sweden's overall percent share, all fields:
1.80
Social Sciences
1.78
+19
Pharmacology & Toxicology
1.77
+35
Plant & Animal Sciences
1.70
+49
Physics
1.58
+40
Psychiatry/Psychology
1.50
-15
Engineering
1.38
+23
Materials Science
1.35
+8
Computer Science
1.24
+11
Chemistry
1.24
+31
Mathematics
1.23
+25
Agricultural Sciences
1.12
+60
Between 2004 and 2008, Clarivate indexed 87,466 papers that listed at
least one author address in Sweden. Of those papers, the highest percentage
appeared in journals classified under the heading of immunology. As the
right-hand column indicates, the citations-per-paper (impact) mark for
Swedish immunology papers was 13% below the 2004-08 world average for the
field (8.58 cites per paper for Sweden, versus a world mark of 9.91 cites
per paper). On the other hand, Sweden-based researchers surpassed the world
average in all but two of the other fields shown, with notably strong
performance in agricultural sciences (60% above the world average),
environment/ecology (49% above), plant & animal sciences (+49%),
clinical medicine (+41%), and physics (+40%).