Table 5. Correlations between economic growth and changes in RCA of the different disciplines classified by Scopus, within simultaneous and asynchronous time intervals.
| N = 85 countries | RCA 1996 to 2000 vs GDP 1996 to 2000 | RCA 1996 to 2000 vs GDP 2001 to 2005 | RCA 2001 to 2005 vs GDP 1996 to 2000 | RCA 2001 to 2005 vs GDP 2001 to 2005 | ||||
| Spearman | p-level | Spearman | p-level | Spearman | p-level | Spearman | p-level | |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 0.07 | 0.552 | −0.10 | 0.344 | 0.15 | 0.165 | 0.09 | 0.430 |
| Arts and Humanities | 0.10 | 0.346 | 0.00 | 0.992 | −0.11 | 0.319 | −0.05 | 0.618 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 0.06 | 0.589 | −0.02 | 0.883 | −0.16 | 0.139 | 0.20 | 0.069 |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 0.06 | 0.615 | 0.17 | 0.123 | 0.16 | 0.153 | −0.02 | 0.862 |
| Chemical Engineering | −0.14 | 0.215 | 0.11 | 0.319 | −0.16 | 0.144 | −0.01 | 0.912 |
| Chemistry | 0.01 | 0.899 | −0.13 | 0.221 | −0.15 | 0.160 | 0.00 | 0.974 |
| Computer Science | −0.17 | 0.125 | −0.34 | 0.001 | 0.01 | 0.957 | −0.11 | 0.296 |
| Decision Sciences | −0.08 | 0.493 | −0.07 | 0.498 | −0.16 | 0.133 | −0.16 | 0.153 |
| Dentistry | 0.02 | 0.844 | 0.16 | 0.139 | 0.00 | 0.987 | 0.10 | 0.378 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 0.24 | 0.027 | −0.08 | 0.469 | −0.06 | 0.569 | −0.20 | 0.066 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 0.11 | 0.301 | −0.02 | 0.876 | −0.03 | 0.789 | −0.06 | 0.558 |
| Energy | 0.00 | 0.997 | −0.20 | 0.069 | 0.18 | 0.108 | 0.06 | 0.575 |
| Engineering | 0.06 | 0.604 | 0.02 | 0.834 | −0.02 | 0.821 | −0.11 | 0.301 |
| Environmental Science | 0.09 | 0.436 | −0.23 | 0.038 | 0.15 | 0.182 | 0.11 | 0.331 |
| Health Professions | −0.07 | 0.514 | 0.07 | 0.536 | −0.06 | 0.593 | −0.14 | 0.210 |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 0.12 | 0.270 | 0.21 | 0.056 | −0.20 | 0.065 | −0.11 | 0.306 |
| Materials Science | −0.11 | 0.334 | −0.23 | 0.036 | −0.22 | 0.043 | −0.03 | 0.757 |
| Mathematics | −0.20 | 0.064 | 0.06 | 0.608 | 0.06 | 0.608 | −0.28 | 0.011 |
| Medicine | 0.01 | 0.942 | 0.12 | 0.268 | 0.03 | 0.757 | 0.16 | 0.145 |
| Neuroscience | 0.17 | 0.115 | 0.11 | 0.310 | −0.25 | 0.021 | −0.17 | 0.123 |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics | −0.05 | 0.670 | 0.03 | 0.818 | −0.10 | 0.351 | 0.28 | 0.008 |
| Physics and Astronomy | −0.18 | 0.102 | −0.08 | 0.453 | −0.16 | 0.131 | −0.03 | 0.751 |
| Psychology | −0.02 | 0.827 | −0.01 | 0.907 | 0.16 | 0.134 | −0.17 | 0.117 |
| Social Sciences | 0.08 | 0.472 | −0.12 | 0.258 | 0.09 | 0.416 | −0.08 | 0.488 |
| Veterinary | 0.04 | 0.749 | 0.12 | 0.277 | 0.13 | 0.235 | 0.08 | 0.467 |
| Total number of papers in Scopus | −0.06 | 0,59 | 0,01 | 0,96 | −0.10 | 0.38 | 0.17 | 0,11 |