Growing international collaboration not yet enough to halt decline in Japan's research output

Wednesday, March 20, 2019 - 09:50 in Mathematics & Economics

Japan's contribution to high-quality scientific research fell by 19.9 per cent between January 2012 and October 2018 according to the Nature Index. But efforts to increase international collaboration, seen as one way to address this trend, are paying off. Since 2014, the proportion of articles from journals tracked by the Index with international co-authors originating from Japanese institutions has increased from 46 to 56 per cent.

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