UNESCO SCIENCE REPORT

Table S9: Publications by major field of science, 2008 and 2014
Total
Publications by field of science
Agricultural
sciences Astronomy Biological sciences Chemistry Computer sciences Engineering
2008 2014 2008 2014 2008 2014 2008 2014 2008 2014 2008 2014 2008 2014
Tunisia 2 068 3 068 91 167 3 10 429 514 194 302 39 95 281 455
United Arab Emirates 713 1 450 15 13 1 15 125 173 35 120 35 87 126 367
Yemen 64 202 0 2 0 2 7 19 7 25 0 3 5 17
Central Asia
Kazakhstan 221 600 5 7 4 10 20 44 66 80 1 4 22 78
Kyrgyzstan 54 82 0 3 0 0 7 13 2 4 0 0 5 1
Mongolia 126 203 1 4 0 1 34 51 7 6 0 0 3 9
Tajikistan 49 46 0 1 4 2 5 4 13 6 0 0 3 3
Turkmenistan 3 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
Uzbekistan 306 323 8 8 11 10 28 27 60 49 0 1 22 30
South Asia
Afghanistan 23 44 0 0 0 0 5 4 0 4 0 0 0 0
Bangladesh 797 1 394 40 82 1 19 196 255 65 84 16 27 70 143
Bhutan 8 36 1 1 0 0 3 10 0 1 0 0 1 0
India 37 228 53 733 1 711 1 604 327 590 5 891 7 529 6 628 9 437 492 1 041 4 875 7 827
Maldives 4 16 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nepal 253 455 6 19 3 0 55 86 2 15 0 0 5 19
Pakistan 3 089 6 778 143 253 4 74 632 1 120 511 438 32 202 240 645
Sri Lanka 430 599 39 44 0 3 70 90 20 29 2 2 26 29
South–East Asia
Brunei Darussalam 43 106 0 0 0 0 8 18 1 10 1 2 1 13
Cambodia 86 206 4 7 0 0 25 55 3 1 0 0 1 1
China 102 368 256 834 1 795 4 510 581 1 298 12 870 30 991 21 536 34 956 1 997 7 759 15 109 41 835
China, Hong Kong SAR 7 660 852 51 9 21 5 867 75 631 67 524 74 1 360 185
China, Macao SAR 121 46 2 0 1 1 20 5 5 4 14 7 25 12
Indonesia 709 1 476 37 82 2 2 194 295 56 90 9 15 63 191
Japan 76 244 73 128 1 853 1 438 783 919 14 884 11 792 9 949 8 762 787 882 8 104 6 766
Korea, DPR 36 23 1 0 1 0 5 2 3 1 2 1 10 0
Korea, Rep. of 33 431 50 258 905 1 289 188 339 4 896 6 519 4 137 5 242 812 1 580 6 663 9 624
Lao PDR 58 129 6 11 0 0 14 29 1 1 0 0 1 2
Malaysia 2 852 9 998 120 324 1 7 316 914 582 945 71 391 484 2 231
Myanmar 39 70 3 1 0 0 13 18 1 0 0 0 0 3
Philippines 663 913 99 79 0 0 169 186 24 41 1 3 14 54
Singapore 7 075 10 553 33 62 1 3 981 1 482 859 1 332 344 527 1 541 1 752
Thailand 4 335 6 343 299 299 10 27 1 023 1 247 499 556 44 77 529 714
Timor–Leste 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Viet Nam 943 2 298 48 70 2 12 170 324 41 174 5 100 71 289
Oceania
Australia 30 922 46 639 1 054 1 224 500 902 7 070 8 683 1 859 2 527 514 952 2 209 4 077
New Zealand 5 681 7 375 400 476 21 64 1 547 1 750 299 308 86 101 318 449
Cook Islands 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Fiji 65 106 4 1 0 0 16 14 7 6 2 6 7 17
Kiribati 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marshall Islands 1 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Micronesia 3 12 0 1 0 0 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nauru 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Niue 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Palau 4 12 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1
Papua New Guinea 78 110 4 1 0 0 46 43 0 2 0 0 0 2
Samoa 1 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Solomon Islands 4 17 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tonga 4 6 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tuvalu 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vanuatu 9 19 3 1 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: data from Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science, Science Citation Index Expanded, compiled for UNESCO by Science–Metrix, May 2015
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