Field Rankings

The Field Rankings table displays aggregate data for each of the 22 ESI research fields. For each field:

  • The Number of Papers is the total number of papers in 10 years of Web of Science.
  • The Number of Citations is the total number of citations received by all papers in the research field. The citing papers can be in any field.
  • Citations per Paper is the total number of citations divided by the total number of papers.
  • Highly Cited Papers is the number papers receiving the minimum number of citations to place them in the top 1% of all papers in the field. It is important to recognize that that minimum number of may be equivalent to the value given in the citations per paper column. It may be smaller or it may be larger.

Sample Report

The following excerpt from a Field Rankings table reveals that in the field of Engineering:

  • There are records of 919,038 papers from Engineering journals in 10 years of Web of Science.
  • The 919,038 papers received a total of 4,667,747 citations.
  • Citations per paper is the quotient obtained by dividing Number of Citations by Number of Papers.
  • 8,835 of these papers received a number of citations that placed them in the top 1% of all Engineering papers in the past 10 years.

FIELD

NO. OF PAPERS

NO. OF CITATIONS

CITATIONS PER PAPER

HIGHLY CITED PAPERS

Engineering

919,038

4,667,747

5.08

8,835