On June 15, 2008 Thomson Reuters ISI has published a short report about Canadian Science. Canada’s world share of science and social-science papers over the last five years is expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields in the Thomson Reuters ISI database. Also, Canada’s relative citation impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.
http://sciencewatch.com/dr/sci/08/jun15-08_2/
It is a very interesting read that shows that Canadians scientists are most prominent in Psychology/Psychiatry and Ecology/Environmental and least prominent in Chemistry and Physics. Frankly, the whole thing surprised me very much!
What do you see in this report? Does it surprise you?
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This was fascinating. The report confirms that Canada contributes a relatively small percentage of papers to the world’s knowledgebase each year. There should be NO surprise here – we have a small population after all. The more interesting thing is the IMPORTANCE of the research coming from Canadian sources – WOW! The impact of Canadian research exceeded the world average – clinical medicine (34% above the world average), space science (60% above), and physics (33% above). Thanks for sharing this Eugene!