Belgium'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, Belgium's relative citation impact compared to the world
average
in each field, in percentage terms.
Field
Percentage of papers
from Belgium
Relative impact
compared to world
Microbiology
1.95
+26
Space Science
1.84
+5
Environment/Ecology
1.73
+36
Plant & Animal Science
1.73
+28
Economics & Business
1.70
-7
Agricultural Sciences
1.70
+63
Immunology
1.69
-8
Clinical Medicine
1.66
+55
Psychiatry/Psychology
1.54
+17
Pharmacology & Toxicology
1.45
+20
Computer Science
1.43
+11
Belgium's overall percent share, all fields:
1.41
Mathematics
1.40
+28
Molecular Biology & Genetics
1.39
+6
Physics
1.36
+16
Biology & Biochemistry
1.32
+17
Neuroscience & Behavior
1.30
+13
Engineering
1.23
+34
Geosciences
1.18
+51
Chemistry
1.12
+15
Social Sciences
0.96
+14
Materials Science
0.93
+27
Between 2004 and 2008, Clarivate indexed 68,402 papers that listed at
least one author address in Belgium. Of those papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of
microbiology, followed by space science and environment/ecology. The impact
of microbiology papers from Belgium, as the right-hand column indicates,
exceeded the world average by 26% during the five-year period (8.89 cites
per paper for Belgium versus the world baseline of 7.03 cites per paper).
The impact of papers from Belgium-based authors was also notably strong in
agricultural sciences (63% above the world average), clinical medicine (55%
above), geosciences (+51%), and environment/ecology (+36%).
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).