Comments on: What different countries get for their research spending

What different countries get for their research spending

shoos — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 08:52:49 -0800

The scientific productivity of nations (pdf). An article by the UK's chief scientific advisor, published this week in Nature, quantitating the scientific output of different countries, normalized to per capita GDP, area of study, number of researchers, higher education research spending, and more. A commentary, from a UK perspective.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:08:20 -0800

That graph on page 4 is very cool just for its layout. Is there a name for that?

By: tripitaka

tripitaka — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:17:27 -0800

spider graph

By: talos

talos — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:32:21 -0800

This is a very interesting study, though I'd like to point out that it fails to give credit to countries for their scientific diasporas (if I understood the way the paper assigns authors to countries). Thus countries like India and Russia are underrepresented despite their educational system having produced the researchers that then leave in search of richer salaries. In Greece (where I have an idea of the scale of the phenomenon) active cited researchers living and working abroad outnumber the local researchers by a very wide margin (possibly 3 to 1)... I can imagine that in, say, Russia or Egypt, the margin is even wider

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 13:29:03 -0800

Canada kicks effective ass inexpensively!

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:56:18 -0800

Those fucking luxemborgers sure arn't pulling their weight!

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:07:39 -0800

um...Canada kicks ass inexpensively thanks to its neighbor to the south