3.4 Major fields of science

The citation scores of publications across the six major fields of science for all institution categories* appear in Figure 3.5.1 The Figure also displays the number of publications and citations. Data refers to the most recent 5-year period 2006-2010.

In “Natural Sciences”, citation scores for a small number of publications attributed to the "Research Centres supervised by GSRT" (1.11) were above the world average, with the publications of the "Universities" coming close (0.97).

In “Engineering and Technology” the highest citation score (1.25) was attributed to the publications of "GSRT Research Centres". The publications of "Universities" followed (1.13), and the publications of "Other Public Research Centres" were very close to the world average (0.99). 

In “Medical Sciences”, publications of three institution categories had a slightly better performance that the world average: "GSRT Research Centres" (1.22), "Private Health Institutions" (1.17) and "Other Public Research Centres" (1.03).

In “Agricultural Sciences” the higher citation scores were attributed to the publications of "GSRT Research Centres" (1.06) and "Universities" (1.05).

In “Social Sciences”, citation scores were below the world average for all institution categories. Publications of "GRST Research Centres" had the higher value (1.11).

Finally, in the field of “Humanities”, only "GRST Research Centres" and "Universities" produced publications in a systematic way. However, both institution categories had citation scores above the world average and "GRST Research Centres" exceeded that baseline by far (2.55 and 1.04 for "Universities").

Figure 3.4.1

 

The field normalized citation rate was provided only for the institution categories with more than 75 publications for the period 1996-2010.