Australia'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
Clarivate database. Also, Australia's relative citation
impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
Field
Percentage of papers
from Australia
Relative impact
compared to world
Environment/Ecology
5.11
+26
Psychiatry/Psychology
5.03
-4
Geosciences
4.99
+27
Plant & Animal Sciences
4.90
+21
Economics & Business
4.88
-23
Social Sciences
4.83
+3
Space Science
4.41
+26
Agricultural Sciences
4.03
+4
Immunology
3.90
+6
Clinical Medicine
3.34
+23
Microbiology
3.04
+14
Australia's overall percent share, all fields:
3.02
Biology & Biochemistry
2.83
+7
Neuroscience & Behavior
2.79
-6
Molec. Biol. & Genetics
2.73
+1
Computer Science
2.70
+5
Engineering
2.32
+9
Mathematics
2.31
+23
Pharmacology & Toxicology
2.21
+13
Materials Science
1.86
+15
Physics
1.75
+30
Chemistry
1.58
+9
Between 2004 and 2008, Clarivate indexed 147,081 papers that listed
at least one author address in Australia. Of those papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of
environment/ecology. As the right-hand column shows, the
citations-per-paper average, or impact, of environment/ecology reports from
Australia exceeded the world average for the field by 26% (5.56 cites per
paper for Australia versus the world mark of 4.43 cites). The relative
impact of Australian research was also notably strong in physics (30% above
the world figure), geosciences (27% above), and space science (+26%).