The amount of science papers published by the member countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has increased, according to a recent study that analyzed papers included in the Institute for Science Information science citation index journals. ASEAN countries accounted for just 0.5% of the world’s science papers, or 165,000 papers, from 1991 to 2010. However, the amount increased 300% between 1991–2000 and 2001–2010. Singapore published 45% of ASEAN countries’ papers, followed by Thailand, which published 21% and Malaysia, which published 16%. The leading areas of papers published in the three countries were material sciences and nanotechnology, food science and technology, and engineering, respectively.

Source: SciDev