Clarivate Report on U.S. Research Emphasizes Need for Continued International Collaboration and Domestic Regional Investment
Friday, May 5, 2023
Institute for Scientific Information prompts the U.S. to address shrinking domestic research capacity or risk its position as a leading science and technology power
LONDON, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in connecting people and organizations to intelligence they can trust to transform their world, today released an in-depth report from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)(TM) which examines the impact of globalization on United States research. The report emphasizes the importance of continued investment and collaboration to maintain the country's position as a leading science and technology power.
"U.S. research trends: The impact of globalization and collaboration" draws on data from the Web of Science(TM) to analyze the trajectory of U.S. research over the past 15 years. It reveals that while the U.S. remains a strong and influential player in the global research community, it faces increasing competition from new science-based economies in Asia and an expanded EU network. The report also raises important questions about how past investment has prepared the U.S. scientific enterprise to achieve its goals.
Jonathan Adams, Chief Scientist at the Institute for Scientific Information said: "The U.S. remains a leading science and technology power, but it no longer stands alone. It needs to acknowledge its shrinking domestic research capacity and work pragmatically with resourceful competitors to maintain its position."
Key findings of the report include:
-- U.S. research investment, domestic research student numbers, and the
output of research articles and reviews have not grown at the same rate
as other parts of the world, resulting in increasing competition.
-- Most growth in U.S. research publication output is attributable to
international collaboration, which has doubled for major traditional
partners such as the United Kingdom and Germany and quadrupled with
Mainland China.
-- The physical sciences and technology areas are the subjects where the
U.S. has the greatest degree of international collaboration and the
smallest component of purely domestic research output. Mainland China is
the U.S.'s most frequent partner in technology research and is as
frequent as the U.K. and Germany in physical sciences.
-- The U.S.'s research portfolio remains extensive and diverse, but its
research subject diversity has declined due to the science budget
expanding much faster in biomedicine than in technology areas.
-- U.S research activity is unevenly spread across the country, but the
U.S. has sought to address over-concentration of its innovation and
development resources by structured funding directed to areas of
relatively weak research capacity.
-- The U.S. is strong but no longer dominates the research landscape as it
did in the past. This is because other G7 nations are producing papers
of the highest citation impact, while more U.S. papers are now of world
average citation impact.
Notes to editors:
Our Global Research Reports from the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate draw on our unique industry insights to offer analysis, ideas and commentary to enlighten and stimulate debate. Each one demonstrates the huge potential of research data to inform management issues in research assessment and research policy and to accelerate development of the global research base.
https://clarivate.com/the-institute-for-scientific-information/isi-reports/
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