Table 2.
Ranking of documents published by CNR scholars per subject area from 2000 to 2019 (Source: Scopus, 2020).
| Rank | Subject area | Number of documents 2019 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chemical sciences (Chemistry + Chemical Engineering) | 33,221 (24,171 + 9,050) |
| 2 | Physical sciences (physics and astronomy) | 31,974 |
| 3 | Life sciences (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular biology + Immunology and Microbiology) | 30,008 (26,127 + 3,881) |
| 4 | Engineering | 23,433 |
| 5 | Materials Science | 23,233 |
| 6 | Medicine | 17,489 |
| 7 | Computer Science | 16,529 |
| 8 | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 14,449 |
| 9 | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 14,193 |
| 10 | Mathematics | 10,284 |
| 11 | Environmental Science | 9,221 |
| 12 | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics | 5,366 |
| 13 | Neuroscience | 4,840 |
| 14 | Energy | 3,825 |
| 15 | Social Sciences | 3,465 |
| Other | 10,565 |