Scotland's world share of science and social-science papers over a recent
five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields
in the
Thomson
Reuters database. Also, Scotland's citation impact compared to
the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
Field
Percentage of papers from Scotland
Relative impact
compared to world
Space Science
2.34
+67
Plant & Animal Sciences
1.92
+40
Microbiology
1.90
+30
Molecular Biology & Genetics
1.78
+27
Education
1.75
+8
Social Sciences
1.64
+11
Ecology/Environmental
1.52
+37
Biology & Biochemistry
1.48
+31
Geosciences
1.48
+6
Psychology/Psychiatry
1.33
+16
Immunology
1.33
+13
Economics & Business
1.31
+1
Neurosciences & Behavior
1.27
+7
Clinical Medicine
1.21
+43
Scotland's overall percent share, all fields:
1.15
Pharmacology
0.92
+48
Agricultural Sciences
0.91
+62
Mathematics
0.90
+16
Engineering
0.84
-1
Physics
0.79
+70
Chemistry
0.73
+4
Computer Science
0.68
+1
Materials Science
0.42
+18
Between 2003 and 2007, Clarivate indexed 49,025 papers that listed at
least one author address in Scotland. Of those papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of space
science, followed by plant & animal sciences and microbiology. In space
science, as the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper average of
research from Scotland exceeded the world average by 67% (13.00 cites per
paper for Scotland versus the world baseline of 7.80 cites). Scotland's
performance in terms of relative impact was also strong in physics (70%
above the world mark), agricultural sciences (62% above), pharmacology
(+48%), and clinical medicine (+43%).
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).