Ireland'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, Ireland's citation impact compared to the world
average in each field, in percentage terms.
Field
Percentage of papers
from Ireland
Relative impact
compared to world
Agricultural Sciences
1.12
+30
Space Science
0.78
+19
Microbiology
0.71
+11
Computer Science
0.71
Even
Economics & Business
0.59
-29
Social Sciences
0.55
-6
Immunology
0.52
+49
Mathematics
0.50
-9
Clinical Medicine
0.50
+9
Plant & Animal Science
0.49
+6
Ireland's overall percent share, all fields:
0.47
Molecular Biology & Genetics
0.46
-3
Physics
0.45
+44
Psychiatry/Psychology
0.43
Even
Engineering
0.43
+14
Neuroscience & Behavior
0.42
+11
Biology & Biochemistry
0.42
+4
Pharmacology & Toxicology
0.42
+7
Environment/Ecology
0.41
-3
Geosciences
0.40
+18
Materials Science
0.36
+59
Chemistry
0.29
+26
Between 2004 and 2008, Clarivate indexed 22,789 papers that listed at
least one author address in Ireland. Of those papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals categorized under the heading of
agricultural sciences, followed by space science and microbiology. As the
right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper figure for
agricultural-sciences reports from Ireland exceeded the world average by
30% (3.71 citations per paper for Ireland versus a world mark of 2.86
citations). Ireland also scored well in relative impact in materials
science (59% above the world mark), immunology (49% above), and physics
(+44%). In two fields, Ireland’s impact figure happened to match the
world mark precisely: computer science (1.51 cites per paper) and
psychiatry/psychology (4.24 cites).
SOURCE:
National Science Indicators, 1981-2008 (containing listings of
output and citation statistics for more than 170 countries; available in
standard and deluxe versions from the
Research Services
Group).