| Table 5-22 | ||||||
| Share of U.S. S&E articles, by sector and field: 2012 | ||||||
| (Percent) | ||||||
| Sector |
Federal government |
Industry | Academic | FFRDCs |
Private nonprofit |
State/local government |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All fields combined (n) | 13,075 | 11,779 | 163,137 | 5,690 | 18,322 | 1,728 |
| Engineering | 6.0 | 13.8 | 7.0 | 15.9 | 1.2 | 3.8 |
| Agricultural sciences | 4.6 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.1 |
| Astronomy | 1.8 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 5.4 | 2.4 | 0.0 |
| Biological sciences | 29.7 | 22.7 | 22.7 | 8.9 | 24.6 | 24.9 |
| Chemistry | 4.7 | 12.4 | 8.4 | 18.7 | 2.0 | 0.9 |
| Computer sciences | 0.3 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Geosciences | 12.3 | 5.3 | 5.2 | 10.3 | 2.9 | 13.7 |
| Mathematics | 0.4 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Medical sciences | 26.3 | 24.5 | 25.8 | 2.5 | 54.3 | 43.5 |
| Other life sciences | 1.5 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 3.6 | 4.5 |
| Physics | 6.4 | 10.0 | 8.8 | 35.5 | 1.3 | 0.3 |
| Psychology | 2.6 | 1.5 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 4.0 |
| Social sciences | 3.5 | 1.7 | 7.4 | 0.6 | 4.2 | 3.2 |
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NOTES: Article counts are from the set of journals covered by the Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). Articles are classified by the year they entered the database, rather than their year of publication, and are assigned to a sector on the basis of the institutional address(es) listed in the article. Articles are credited on a fractional-count basis (i.e., for articles with collaborating institutions from multiple sectors, each sector receives fractional credit on the basis of the proportion of its participating institutions). SOURCES: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, and The Patent Board,™ special tabulations (2013) from Thomson Reuters, SCI and SSCI, http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/. See appendix table Science and Engineering Indicators 2014 |
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