US dominance is highlighted in the numbers
The United States is the Top Institution for Health Sciences Research in the OECD: Challenges for Innovation, Diversity, and Future Directions in Health Science Research
The United States’ share in the Nature Index is higher than the next 10 countries combined. 30 of the top 50 research organizations are based in the US, and the US institutions are prominently featured among them.
Out of the top 25 countries for health sciences articles in the Nature Index, five countries have a share that makes up more than 29% of their overall footprint. Denmark, whose research is boosted by the success of companies such as Novo Nordisk, has the highest ratio in this regard at almost 40%.
As Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the leading institution for high-quality health-sciences research, its involvement in the top institutional partnership in the field is no surprise. But its dominance does not extend to all the other leading collaborations, some of which involve institutions outside the United States.
An extraordinary amount of money is invested in health-sciences research, but this hasn’t translated to a faster pipeline for new therapies. The increasing complexity of clinical trials is part of the problem, and something that researchers are hoping artificial intelligence can help to address. Some people are rethinking how trials are done to make them more meaningful. People with Alzheimer’s and other progressive conditions could be impacted by measuring how many good years a medication can give, rather than just the score on cognitive tests.
The lack of women in leadership positions is a structural weakness in health-sciences research that needs urgent attention. If institutions do not work harder to increase diversity at the top levels of academia, they risk damaging the talent pipeline and ultimately health outcomes for everyone.
A Supplement to the Nature Index for Bilateral Collaborations in Governments, Regions, and Regions: Using Online Features to Enhance Online Research Outputs
Each query will return a profile page that lists the country or institution’s recent outputs, from which it is possible to drill down for more information. There are two ways in which articles can be displayed: journal and article. The research outputs are organized in chronological order. The pages list the institution or country’s/territory’s top collaborators, as well as its relationship with other organizations. Users can track an institution’s performance and create their own indexes.
The sum of their Shares on the papers to which they contributed determines the bilateral collaboration score. A bilateral collaboration can be between any two institutions or countries/territories co-authoring at least one article in the journals tracked by the Nature Index.
Adjusted Share accounts for the small annual variation in the total number of articles in the Nature Index journals. It is arrived at by calculating the percentage difference in the total number of articles in the Index in a given year relative to the number of articles in a base year and adjusting Share values to the base year levels.
A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, as well as a guide to the online features available for free, can be found here.
