Israel'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 Thomson
Reuters database. Also, Israel's relative citation impact compared to
the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
Field
Percentage of papers
from Israel
Relative impact
compared to world
Mathematics
2.00
+10
Psychiatry/Psychology
1.78
-12
Computer Science
1.67
+36
Neuroscience & Behavior
1.46
+9
Molecular Biology & Genetics
1.43
+16
Physics
1.43
+54
Immunology
1.39
-9
Space Science
1.34
+57
Social Sciences
1.32
-14
Clinical Medicine
1.29
+2
Economics & Business
1.22
+9
Biology & Biochemistry
1.19
+16
Israel's overall percent share, all fields:
1.13
Microbiology
0.98
+10
Engineering
0.94
+10
Plant & Animal Science
0.85
+41
Environment/Ecology
0.83
+4
Geosciences
0.73
+26
Chemistry
0.72
+33
Pharmacology & Toxicology
0.64
+14
Agricultural Sciences
0.55
+35
Materials Science
0.54
+46
Between 2004 and 2008, Clarivate indexed 55,225 papers that listed at
least one author address in Israel. Of those papers, the highest percentage
appeared in journals categorized under the heading of mathematics. As the
right-hand column indicates, the impact (or average citations per paper) of
mathematics papers from Israel was 10% above the average in the field
during the five-year period (1.49 cites per paper for Israel versus a world
figure of 1.36 citations). Israel's relative-impact performance was also
notably strong in space science (57% above the world mark), physics (54%
above), materials science (+46%), and plant & animal science (+41%).
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).