Emerging nations boost research & science paper

Iran is the world's fastest growing country in terms of scientific publication, says a major new UK report on global science and collaboration. The report — Knowledge, networks and nations: Global scientific collaboration in the 21st Century — reports that emerging nations such as China, India, Brazil, Tunisia, Turkey, Singapore, Iran and Qatar are accelerating their R&D and scientific publications, while dominant nations are losing their share of global authorship. http://royalsociety.org/policy/reports/knowledge-networks-nations....