Mar 23, 2012

Singapore - S'pore ranked most productive in Asia-Pacific for research

 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.

AsiaOne

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