9.4 Major fields of science
Figure 9.4.1 captures, for the five-year period 2006 to 2010, the impact of publications by "Private Health Institutions" in the scientific fields that demonstrate higher publication activity*:“Medical & Health Sciences” and “Natural Sciences”. The field-normalised citation scores reflect the average impact of the publications of a Private Health Institution in each major scientific field by taking the average number of citations of publications from each Health Institution within the relevant fields and subfields. Figure 9.4.2 presents the publications and the scientific sub-fields of publications with high citation scores for each Private Health Institution.
Private Health Institutions were mostly active in the scientific field of “Medical & Health Sciences”. The publications with an impact higher than the world average baseline came from the institutions of HENRY DUNANT (citation score of 2.10), AIBS (1.62) and METROPOLITAN (1.47).
There was a low number of publications in the field of “Natural Sciences”, mainly from AIBS and HENRY DUNANT and with field-normalised citation scores of 1.41 and 1.05 respectively.
The field-normalised citation score is calculated only for Private Health Institutions with more than 75 publications for the period 1996-2010, or 5 publications annually.
