Singapore has emerged as the most productive
in Asia-Pacific for publishing the highest number of research articles per capita
and per research scientist, according to a top scientific journal publisher.
Singapore
also maintained its fifth-place ranking in terms of the output of research
articles published in Nature Journals in the Nature Publishing Index 2011
Asia-Pacific, released by the Nature Publishing Group. It comes after Japan,
China, Australia and Korea.
Singapore
topped the chart in productivity beating the other higher-ranked countries,
with its score of 10.39 research articles per million population, and 1.90 articles
per 1000 researchers.
In
contrast, Japan, which is ranked first in output of research articles, scored
2.83 research articles per million population and 0.43 research article per
1000 researchers.
The
Agency For Science, Technology And Research (A*STAR) said the high productivity
by Singaporean scientists was a "testimony to the country's strong
commitment to investing in R&D as a critical pillar to develop the
country."
Top-ranked
countries, like Japan and China, published 361 and 225 research articles in
2011, respectively.
The
National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Nanyang Technological University
(NTU) emerged 18th and 35th positions respectively.
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