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China is catching to the USA, while Japan is being left behind

8 thoughts on “China is catching to the USA, while Japan is being left behind”

  1. All this, while the US is reducing the funding for NSF and discrediting scientists(Climate change for example) in general to a certain extent. Also, I see that lots of doctoral students are going back to their home countries which are contributing to the research efforts there.

    1. lots of doctoral students are going back to their home countries which are contributing to the research efforts there

      In the US, there are many more Ph.D. students than positions requiring a Ph.D., so it should be surprising to find that many leave after graduating.

  2. Alex says:

    Japanese companies especially don’t like to apply for patents for it’s too revealing, they much prefer to do R&D behind secrecy. So to me it’s no mystery why there just aren’t much articles being published.

    1. On a per-capita basis, Japan and South Korea are the champions of patent applications, by a wide margin. China, the USA and Japan are the leaders in absolute terms.

      So it is strictly at the level of scholarly publications that Japan fares poorly. I’d very much like to get a good analysis.

  3. Hiro says:

    A report is the non reality which only gazed at the “catalog spec”. China and South Korea exaggerate all the informations. And, in China and South Korea, only the numbers of patent fillings as important.They do a lot of applications with no content. In a real world, most of China and South Korea doesn’t have an advanced technology. In short, this report is non reality.

  4. catchupwhat says:

    Idiot, don’t trust China’s paper number, it’s most likely faked

  5. Hani says:

    Most of the high quality research papers being published in the US are mostly by non-Americans. Most are foreign students. At U of Pennsylvania they even conducted the PhD qualifier exams a second time just to enable American nationals to pass the exam as none could pass it the first time.

    1. Graduate students are overwhelmingly foreign-born in my experience, though I do not have hard numbers.