TY - JOUR
T1 - The scientific impact of developing nations
AU - Gonzalez-Brambila, Claudia N.
AU - Reyes-Gonzalez, Leonardo
AU - Veloso, Francisco
AU - Perez-Angón, Miguel Angel
N1 - Funding Information:
Authors also acknowledge support from Conacyt-Mexico.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Gonzalez-Brambila et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2016/3/29
Y1 - 2016/3/29
N2 - This paper analyzes science productivity for nine developing countries. Results show that these nations are reducing their science gap, with R&D investments and scientific impact growing at more than double the rate of the developed world. But this “catching up” hides a very uneven picture among these nations, especially on what they are able to generate in terms of impact and output relative to their levels of investment and available resources. Moreover, unlike what one might expect, it is clear that the size of the nations and the relative scale of their R&D investments are not the key drivers of efficiency.
AB - This paper analyzes science productivity for nine developing countries. Results show that these nations are reducing their science gap, with R&D investments and scientific impact growing at more than double the rate of the developed world. But this “catching up” hides a very uneven picture among these nations, especially on what they are able to generate in terms of impact and output relative to their levels of investment and available resources. Moreover, unlike what one might expect, it is clear that the size of the nations and the relative scale of their R&D investments are not the key drivers of efficiency.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0151328
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0151328
M3 - Article
C2 - 27023182
AN - SCOPUS:84977497769
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 11
JO - PLoS one
JF - PLoS one
IS - 3
M1 - e0151328
ER -
