Happy Saint Patrick's Day! (+3 facts about the Irish research landscape)
Celebrating Irish culture and heritage, Saint Patrick's Day is observed every year on March 17 in commemoration of Saint Patrick (c. AD 385–461), patron saint of Ireland.
Before donning our green shirts and running to the nearest Irish pub for a pint of Guinness, we wanted to have a closer look at how Ireland is performing in terms of scientific research and output.
Here is Ireland's overview in SciVal for the period 2012-1014:
As shown in the above chart, the color of the three-leaved shamrock also has its share in contemporary Irish research: 14.2% of all publications lie within the green subject areas (biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, agricultural and biological sciences).
Digging deeper into the Scopus-based data in SciVal, here are 3 things we found out about the Irish research landscape:
1. The top 3 institutions in terms of number of publications and total citations are: University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork.
2. The share of Irish scientific publications in the top 10% of most cited publications worlwide is on the rise:
3. According to SciVal’s new Trends module, Irish researchers don't only like drinking beer, they are increasingly writing about it too. Cheers!
[Word cloud visualization of keyphrases in SciVal Trends from sample search on ''beer'' limited to Ireland, based on 65 documents]