A global perspective on the world science system (updated for 2006)

[Loet Leydesdorff]

Yes, David, I agree. That is why we put the quotation mark; and our answer
is "no". Despite Congressional thinking. :-)
 
Best wishes,  Loet
 
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Loet Leydesdorff 
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)
Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam
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From: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics
[mailto:SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu] On Behalf Of David E. Wojick
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 1:23 PM
To: SIGMETRICS at listserv.utk.edu
Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] A global perspective on the world science system
(updated for 2006)


"losing ground" here. China has transitioned from being a poor country to
being a mid-level one in terms of wealth. It is a global manufacturing
center. This is wonderful news. In the process it now has, as I understand,
about 800,000 research workers. This is second only to the US with 1.2
million.

Suppose the publication rates are proportional to the research populations,
and China's is growing rapidly along with its economy. How then is the US
losing ground? China's gain is not my loss. This is important because this
fallacy, if it is one, pervades Congressional thinking today.

David

At 03:32 PM 1/28/2007, you wrote:




Is the  <http://www.leydesdorff.net/us_science/index.htm> United States
losing ground in science? 
A global perspective on the world science system (updated for 2006)
<http://www.leydesdorff.net/us_science/index.htm>  <?xml:namespace prefix =
o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />



 
Based on the Science Citation Index-Expanded web-version, the
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />USA is still by far the
strongest nation in terms of scientific performance. Its relative decline in
percentage share of publications is largely due to the emergence of China
and other Asian nations. In 2006, China has become the second largest nation
in terms of the number of publications within this database. In terms of
citations, the competitive advantage of the American "domestic market" is
diminished, while the European Union (EU) is profiting more from the
enlargement of the database over time than the US. However, the USA is still
outperforming all other countries in terms of highly cited papers and
citation/publication ratios, and it is more successful than the EU in
coordinating its research efforts in strategic priority areas like
nanotechnology. In this field, 
China has become second largest in both numbers of papers published and
citations behind the USA. 

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Loet Leydesdorff 
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)
Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam
Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 
loet at leydesdorff.net  <mailto:loet at leydesdorff.net> ;
http://www.leydesdorff.net/ 
 
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