Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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98. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, from 2003 to 2014, the number of research publications from researchers located here, based on the Web of Science Core Collection dataset; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35791/15]

Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Please see the data following, as requested. This is external data, not analysed or modified by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation or its agency, Science Foundation Ireland. This data was obtained by searching the Web of Science Core Collection, using the search term ADDRESS: Ireland.

Science Foundation Ireland’s work with the Small Advanced Economies Initiative has demonstrated significant improvements in both the quality and quantity of Ireland’s R&D outputs. For example, the percentage of articles published in Ireland in the top 5% of the world’s publications (measured by citations) has increased from 5% in 1999 to 7% in 2011 (source Elsevier, Scopus).

Ireland’s scientific ranking is 16th in the world – up from 20th in 2009 to 2013. This statistic illustrates the excellent quality of Ireland’s R&D outputs. (Based on scientific citations per paper – Source: Essential Science Indicators from Thomson Reuters).