Table 5.
Subject area and number of documents published by CNR scholars in 2000 and in 2019 (Source: Scopus, 2020).
| Rank | Subject area | No. of documents in 2000 | No. of documents in 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chemical sciences (Chemistry + Chemical Engineering) | 1,445 (882 + 278) | 2,219 (1,504 + 715) |
| 2 | Life Sciences (Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology + Immunology and Microbiology) | 1,062 (943 + 119) | 1,991 (1,702 + 289) |
| 3 | Physical sciences (physics and astronomy) | 1,030 | 1,797 |
| 4 | Engineering | 561 | 1,787 |
| 5 | Materials Science | 696 | 1,619 |
| 6 | Computer Science | 350 | 1,450 |
| 7 | Medicine | 497 | 1,409 |
| 8 | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 396 | 1,142 |
| 9 | Earth and Planetary Sciences | 489 | 1,003 |
| 10 | Environmental Science | 178 | 858 |
| 11 | Mathematics | 251 | 749 |
| 12 | Energy | 47 | 421 |
| 13 | Social Sciences | 60 | 375 |
| 14 | Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics | 191 | 368 |
| 15 | Neuroscience | 153 | 326 |
| 16 | Arts and Humanities | 61 | 144 |