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In an essay in this week’s issue of Nature, (subscription required) Hollingsworth and his co-authors argue that recent huge investments by the EU, China, Japan, Russia and India have leveled the international playing field in the sciences, leaving the U.S. teetering on the brink of losing the status it’s held since the second World War. China in particular has moved from 15th in the world rankings in science and engineering production to second place, just in the last twelve years.
Hollingsworth isn’t wrong; other countries are handing out more doctorates, publishing more papers, and funding more research than ever before, while we’re floundering under budget constraints (and political agendas). So should we pack up the labs at M.I.T. and CalTech and send everyone to Beijing? Not so fast, he argues, citing the fact that the U.S. is still major player, with American researchers accounting for more than half of the top 1 percent of the world’s most-cited papers.
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