The citation scores of publications across the six major fields of science for all institution categories appear in Figure 4.5.1 The Figure also displays the number of publications and citations. Data refers to the most recent 5-year period, 2016-2020.

In “Natural Sciences”, a small number of publications attributed to the "Other Educational Institutions" record the highest citation score (2.13).  

In “Engineering and Tehcnology” the highest citation score was attributed to the publications of “Private Non profit Institutions" (1.52).

In “Medical Sciences”, publications of seven institution categories had a better performance than the world average:  "Other Public Research Institutions" (1.88), “Private Non profit Institutions” (1.60), ‘‘Universities’’ (1.49),  "RC-GSRT" (1.39), "Other Educational Institutions" (1.32),  "Private Health Institutions" (1.20), "Private Health Institutions" (1.31) and ''Public Hospitals'' (1.20).

In “Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences” and “Humanities and the Arts” the highest citation score was attributed to the publications of "RC-GSRT" whereas in “Social Sciences” the highest citation score was attributed to  "Other Public Research Institutions" (1.16).

Figure 4.5.1

 

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