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Science in Austria, 2002-06

Austria'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 Scientific database. Also, Austria's relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.

Between 2002 and 2006, Thomson Scientific indexed 39,909 papers that listed at least one author address in Austria. Of those, the highest percentage appeared in journals classified under the heading of immunology, followed closely by clinical medicine. As the right-hand column shows, the citations-per-paper score for immunology papers from Austria was 4% above the world average (11.00 citations per paper for Austria, versus the world baseline of 10.62 citations). Austria's performance was notably strong in physics (66% above the world mark), materials science (43% above), and molecular biology & genetics (+35%). And in social sciences, Austria's impact score happened to match the world mark precisely: 2.06 cites per paper.

SOURCE: National Science Indicators, 1981-2006 (containing listings of output and citation statistics for more than 170 countries; available in standard and deluxe versions from the Research Services Group.

10-year country rankings for Austria 1997-August 31, 2007.

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