Field | Papers | Citations | Citations per paper | World average | % +/– | |
1 | Physics | 49,981 | 482,807 | 9.66 | 8.19 | +18 |
2 | Agricultural sciences | 6,918 | 50,323 | 7. | 6.20 | +17 |
3 | Space sciences | 12,093 | 184,680 | 15. | 13.17 | +16 |
4 | Clinical medicine | 101,537 | 1,380,522 | 13.60 | 11.99 | +13 |
5 | Chemistry | 42,863 | 467,368 | 10.90 | 9.72 | +12 |
6 | Engineering | 33,372 | 146,901 | 4.40 | 3.93 | +12 |
7 | Materials science | 10,753 | 66,832 | 6.22 | 5.72 | +9 |
8 | Pharmacology | 8,731 | 97,159 | 11.13 | 10.96 | +2 |
9 | Mathematics | 13,261 | 41,125 | 3.10 | 3.07 | +1 |
10 | Psychology/psychiatry | 4,681 | 46,353 | 9.90 | 9.93 | 0 |
11 | Computer sciences | 12,087 | 36,854 | 3.05 | 3.15 | –3 |
12 | Geosciences | 12,615 | 105,123 | 8.33 | 8.72 | –4 |
13 | Immunology | 6,267 | 125,554 | 20.03 | 20.92 | –4 |
14 | Social sciences | 3,743 | 14,992 | 4.01 | 4.16 | –4 |
15 | Plant and animal science | 16,786 | 106,104 | 6.32 | 7.06 | –10 |
16 | Environmental sciences | 7,521 | 64,287 | 8.55 | 9.75 | –12 |
17 | Molecular biology | 12,162 | 253,373 | 20.83 | 25.13 | –17 |
18 | Neurosciences | 18,3 | 268,328 | 14.68 | 18.18 | –19 |
19 | Biochemistry | 24,456 | 319,059 | 13.05 | 16.41 | –20 |
20 | Economics/business | 3,632 | 14,908 | 4.10 | 5.19 | –21 |
21 | Microbiology | 5,430 | 62,196 | 11.45 | 15.04 | –24 |
Here we survey Italy’s output and citation impact relative to the world average in each field. Overall, Italy ranks eighth in the world in output, seventh in total citations, and eighteenth in citations per paper. The table above compares Italy’s citation impact in a specific field with the citation impact score for the world in the same field. Italy’s percentage above or below the world is presented in the column on the far right. Physics, agricultural sciences and space sciences rank as the top three fields for Italy relative to the world, according to citations per paper. For more information on Thomson Reuters’ Essential Science Indicators, see http://scientific.thomsonreuters.com/products/esi.
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