Tide of International Science Moving Against US, EU

explosivejared writes "The Economist has a story on the increasing scientific productivity of countries like China, India, and Brazil relative to the field's old guards in America, Europe, and Japan. Scientific productivity in this sense includes percent of GDP spent on R&D and the overall numbers of researchers, scholarly articles, and patents that a country produces. The article notes increasing levels of international collaboration on scholarly scientific articles in leading journals. From the article: '[M]ore than 35% of articles in leading journals are now the product of international collaboration. That is up from 25% 15 years ago — something the old regime and the new alike can celebrate.'" Note that the "old guard" are still firmly in the lead on these measures of scientific prowess, but the growth rate is higher in the newcomer states.

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Chinese science

[AnonymousClown]

FTFA:

But citation of English-language articles in Chinese journals by other publications remains low.

Maybe it's because Chinese science isn't trustworthy enough?

Re:We don't need no science

[LetterRip]

We have Sarah Palin and she can see Russia from her front porch

What Palin actually said was

"They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska."

http://www.slate.com/id/2200155/

Which is literally true since from Little Diomede part of US territory and Alaska you can see Big Diomede which is under Russian control.

A legitimate critique of Palin would be that she considered Russia being visible from an island of Alaska, as saying something useful about her international experience and foreign relations.