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Pacific research area. Germany did not experience any significant shifts over the course of the
survey conducted here in either of the two periods analysed.
China, Physics
1998-2007
The next step involves breaking down the output into
scientific disciplines in order to provide an exact outline of
the development of scientific publications at this level. This
allowed us to determine that of all of the publications by the
12 countries studied in the field of biology and biotechnology,
30 % were contributed by Japan, while China contributed
30 % in the mathematical and chemistry publications that
were evaluated (see Figures 39 and 40 for more on this).
In the third chapter of this study, a citation analysis is
performed in order to determine the citation rates for all of the
countries studied in the scientific disciplines. The perception
of each of the countries in the individual disciplines is then
compared in a variety of constellations for the entire period under review and over time
between the countries. In order to include another benchmark in addition to the comparison of
countries, the perception of the countries in the individual disciplines is compared to that of
Germany in the same subject. If we take Australia as an example, as shown in the adjacent
figure, we
can see how
high the
percentage
deviation of
the citation
rate is in
comparison
to Germany.
For example,
the
perception
Physics
Nanotechnology
Medicine
Mathematics
Materials science
Engineering
Information and computer science
Geosciences
Citation rates for Australia compared to Germany
-18.25%
-18.38%
Co-
Publications
# Country
1 USA 9932
2 Japan 4562
3 Germany 4197
4 UK 2744
5 France 2168
6 Russia 1798
7 South Korea 1657
8 Canada 1656
9 Italy 1587
10 Singapore 1541
Energy
11.49%
for Australia
Chemistry
-6.85%
as a country
-19.30%
Biology and biotechnology
in the
Agricultural science
14.34%
discipline of
Multidisciplinary journals -24.29%
“agricultural
science” is
-30% -20% -10% 0% 10% 20%
Benchmark Germany
14 % higher
than for
Germany. In mathematics, Australia’s perception is 6 % lower than Germany’s. The perception
of Australia is as good as or better than that of Germany in four disciplines. It therefore counts
as one of the countries with the highest citation rates in this study.
Comparisons were not just performed with Germany, but also in relation to an international
benchmark, whereby the publication behaviour of the countries studied together with their
discipline-specific citation rates were compared to an appropriate global reference.
-11.77%
-6.55%
-5.89%
-3.43%
5.93%
7.34%
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