IN CANADA, 2012 Appendices - Council of Canadian Academies

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Appendix 3 Country-Level Comparisons of Key
Bibliometric Indicators by Field
The tables below present data on key bibliometric indicators (number of papers,
Average Relative Citations (ARC), Specialization Index (SI), and Collaboration
Index (CI)) at the field-level for selected countries. Only the top 19 countries
by the total number of papers produced in that field are shown. Countries are
ranked in descending order by ARC for the 2005–2010 period. Numbers of
papers published are presented in whole counts. (See Appendix 1 for complete
definitions of all variables.)
Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry
Country
2005–2010 1999–2004
# of Papers ARC SI # of Papers ARC SI
CI
Netherlands 5,387 1.59 0.81 4,369 1.54 0.92 1.50
Belgium 4,621 1.50 1.41 3,149 1.27 1.33 1.30
United Kingdom 14,197 1.49 0.63 12,888 1.49 0.73 1.54
Spain 13,560 1.45 1.53 7,651 1.36 1.35 0.99
Sweden 4,010 1.37 0.99 3,773 1.43 1.10 1.28
France 11,343 1.31 0.77 9,469 1.23 0.83 1.37
Australia 11,061 1.31 1.39 9,293 1.18 1.83 1.13
Canada 15,880 1.25 1.38 13,094 1.25 1.69 1.20
United States 64,452 1.24 0.83 55,334 1.25 0.88 0.97
Germany 13,826 1.19 0.68 11,730 0.99 0.73 1.24
Italy 9,616 1.18 0.90 5,107 1.23 0.64 0.92
Rep. of Korea 5,829 0.92 0.69 2,367 0.86 0.52 0.90
China 28,400 0.80 0.57 7,727 0.79 0.45 0.67
Japan 15,982 0.80 0.81 14,975 0.68 0.83 0.78
Turkey 8,611 0.78 2.09 4,178 0.62 2.00 0.34
Iran 4,465 0.74 1.47 644 0.69 1.08 0.57
Brazil 21,173 0.73 3.40 6,418 0.78 1.95 0.41
Poland 6,820 0.58 1.71 4,178 0.53 1.55 0.46
India 15,591 0.50 1.75 11,813 0.33 2.43 0.30
World 297,996 1.00 1.00 207,357 1.00 1.00