Canada's world share of science and social-science papers over the last
five years, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields in the
Clarivate database. Also, Canada's relative citation
impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
Field
Percentage of papers
from Canada
Relative impact
compared to world
Psychology/Psychiatry
7.67
+7
Ecology/Environmental
7.49
+13
Geosciences
7.14
+8
Neurosciences & Behavior
6.70
+5
Social Sciences
6.51
+2
Plant & Animal Sciences
6.39
+13
Economics & Business
6.36
-2
Computer Science
6.25
+13
Molecular Biology
5.62
+3
Biology & Biochemistry
5.21
+7
Space Science
5.20
+60
Mathematics
5.08
+11
Engineering
4.94
+12
Clinical Medicine
4.78
+34
Canada's overall percent share, all fields:
4.74
Immunology
4.68
+5
Education
4.55
+5
Agricultural Sciences
4.31
+20
Microbiology
4.31
+8
Pharmacology
4.09
+11
Materials Science
3.18
+2
Chemistry
3.08
+14
Physics
2.83
+33
Between 2003 and 2007, Clarivate indexed 201,757 papers that listed
at least one author address in Canada. Of those papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of
psychology/psychiatry, followed by ecology/environmental sciences and
geosciences. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper
average for psychology/psychiatry papers from Canada was 7% above the world
average in the field (4.36 cites per paper for Canada versus 4.08 cites for
the world). In all of the fields here save economics & business, the
impact of Canadian research exceeded the world average, with particularly
strong performance in space science (60% above the world average), clinical
medicine (34% above), and physics (+33%).
SOURCE:
National
Science Indicators, 1981-2007 (containing listings of output and
citation statistics for more than 170 countries; available in standard and
deluxe versions from the
Research Services Group).