RESEARCH PRIORITIES IN PHYSICS

DATASET : PHYSICS.DAT PHYSICS.DIC

Description :Priority indices of 36 major countries in ten subfields of physics.

Code labels for the countries:

    1. USA

    2. EX-USSR

    3. WEST GERMANY

    4. JAPAN

    5. UK

    6. FRANCE

    7. CANADA

    8. INDIA

    9. ITALY

    10. SWITZERLAND

    11. NETHERLANDS

    12. POLAND

    13. ISRAEL

    14. AUSTRIAL

    15. EAST GERMANY

    16. SWEDEN

    17. BELGIUM

    18. SPAIN

    19. CHINA

    20. BRAZIL

    21. CZECHOSLOVAKIA

    22. AUSTRIA

    23. DENMARK

    24. FINLAND

    25. YUGOSALVIA

    26. HUNGARY

    27. ARGENTINA

    28. GREECE

    29. BULGARIA

    30. NORWAY

    31. MEXICO

    32. SOUTH AFRICA

    33. NEWSLAND

    34. EGYPT

    35. IRELAND

    36. CHILE

 

Variables describing the physic subfields:

V1 Fluids & Plasma

V2 Condensed Matter

V3 Chemical Physics

V4 Applied Physics

V5 Nuclear Physics

V6 Particle Physics

V7 Mathematical Physics

V8 Optics

V9 Mechanics

V10 Acoustics

Source: NAGPAUL, P.S. & LALITA SHARMA(1994), ‘Research Output and Transnational Cooperation in Physics Subfields: A Multidimensional Analysis’, Scientometrics, 31:97-122.