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Rapidly Improving:
National Influence Increasing Quickly in Select Fields |
 he table below lists the countries that showed the greatest increase in total citations in a specific field, comparing
ISI Essential Science Indicators
data for 1991-April 2001 against
data for 1991-June 2001. In the field of Geosciences, Bermuda
exhibited a more than 17 % increase in total citations,
compared with an increase in total citations of just 3.4% for
the database as a whole between the two periods. Bermuda also
registered a significant rise in citations in Plant &
Animal Science. Slovakia showed up in three fields as coming
on strong: Mathematics, Environment/Ecology, and Clinical
Medicine. Its nearby neighbor Slovenia improved markedly in
Microbiology. Iran, with a large number of papers and sizeable
citations, showed rapid improvement in Physics. And South
Korearecently featured in Science
Watch (Vol. 12, No. 3, May/June 2001, pages 1-2)-moved up over 7 % in total citations in both
Neurosciences
and Behavior as well as Immunology. South Korea has increased its
world share of papers in the ISI database from just .1 % to
over 1.7 % over the past two decades. An outsized gain in
citations would be an expected result of greatly increased
publications. Rounding out the list are: Pakistan in molecular
Biology and Genetics, Bangladesh in Engineering, Vietnam in
Chemistry, Lithuania in Biology & Biochemistry, and
Armenia in Space Sciences, which includes both
Astronomy/Astrophysics and Atmospheric Sciences. There's a
story behind each, which can be examined in the national
citation rankings of ISI Essential Science Indicators, which in
turn link
to the recent and highly cited papers behind these overall
statistics. For example, Iran's increase in Physics is due
in part to important work in string theory and nuclear
physics.
|
| Country |
Field |
Percent
increase |
Papers |
Cites |
| LITHUANIA |
Biology & Biochemistry |
7.29 |
219 |
1074 |
| VIETNAM |
Chemistry |
9.43 |
164 |
406 |
| SLOVAKIA |
Clinical Medicine |
7.36 |
833 |
3225 |
| BANGLADESH |
Engineering |
9.91 |
311 |
355 |
| SLOVAKIA |
Environment/Ecology |
9.17 |
419 |
667 |
| BERMUDA |
Geosciences |
17.27 |
45 |
842 |
| SOUTH KOREA |
Immunology |
7.10 |
516 |
2550 |
| SLOVAKIA |
Mathematics |
9.91 |
495 |
588 |
| SLOVENIA |
Microbiology |
11.43 |
116 |
468 |
| PAKISTAN |
Molecular Biology & Genetics |
10.06 |
57 |
547 |
| SOUTH KOREA |
Neuroscience & Behavior |
7.21 |
998 |
5592 |
| IRAN |
Physics |
10.14 |
718 |
1998 |
| BERMUDA |
Plant & Animal Science |
10.37 |
65 |
713 |
| ARMENIA |
Space Science |
6.85 |
148 |
468 |
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