Russia'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 Clarivate
database. Also, Russia's relative citation impact compared to the world
average in each field, in percentage terms.
Field
Percentage of papers
from Russia
Relative impact
compared to world
Physics
7.39
-14
Space Science
6.90
-45
Geosciences
6.76
-54
Chemistry
4.87
-67
Mathematics
4.63
-51
Materials Science
3.28
-59
Russia's overall percent share, all
fields:
Engineering
2.30
-33
Microbiology
1.99
-56
Molecular Biology & Genetics
1.97
-67
Biology & Biochemistry
1.84
-50
Plant & Animal Science
1.17
-44
Neuroscience & Behavior
1.16
-75
Environment/ Ecology
1.07
-45
Computer Science
0.99
-51
Agricultural Sciences
0.88
-65
Clinical Medicine
0.62
-57
Social Sciences
0.59
-73
Psychiatry/ Psychology
0.43
-64
Immunology
0.39
-35
Pharmacology & Toxicology
0.30
-34
Economics & Business
0.22
-29
Between 2004 and 2008, Clarivate indexed 125,778 papers that listed
at least one author address in Russia. Of those papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals categorized in the field of physics,
followed by space science. As the right-hand column shows, the
citations-per-paper (impact) average for physics papers from Russia during
2004-08 was 14% below the world impact figure for the field (3.57 citations
per paper for Russia, versus a world figure of 4.16 cites). Although the
impact of Russian research has yet to attain the world average in any of
the fields shown, the country demonstrated comparatively strong performance
in engineering, immunology, and pharmacology & toxicology.
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).