The Netherlands' 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, the Netherlands' relative citation impact compared to the world
average in each field, in percentage terms.
Field
Percentage of papers
from the Netherlands
Relative impact
compared to world
Space Science
4.88
+46
Psychiatry/Psychology
4.71
+15
Economics & Business
4.20
+13
Immunology
3.93
-3
Clinical Medicine
3.55
+51
Neuroscience & Behavior
3.46
+6
Environment/Ecology
2.96
+42
Molecular Biology & Genetics
2.96
+15
Microbiology
2.91
+33
Social Sciences
2.90
+27
Geosciences
2.54
+45
The Netherlands' overall percent share, all fields:
2.54
Computer Science
2.36
+14
Plant & Animal Science
2.29
+60
Agricultural Sciences
2.27
+57
Pharmacology & Toxicology
2.23
+22
Biology & Biochemistry
2.12
+21
Physics
1.84
+78
Engineering
1.79
+22
Chemistry
1.53
+57
Mathematics
1.36
+29
Materials Science
1.11
+91
Between 2004 and 2008, Clarivate indexed 123,456 papers that listed
at least one author address in the Netherlands. Of those papers, the
highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of
space science, followed by psychiatry/psychology. In space science, as the
right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average (or impact) of
papers from the Netherlands exceeded the world average in the field by 46%
during the five-year period (10.41 cites per paper for the Netherlands,
versus a world baseline of 7.14 cites). The nation's performance was also
notably strong in physics (78% above the world average), plant & animal
science (60% above), chemistry (+57%), and agricultural sciences (+57%).