According to the Nature Index, which follows the research output of over 8,000 global institutions, the 10 countries with the highest increases, or weighted fractional count (WFC), in their scientific contributions from 2012 to 2015 are Saudi Arabia, increasing 87.1%; China, increasing 43.6%; Poland, increasing 34.3%; Russia, increasing 24.2%; India, increasing 23.0%; Brazil, increasing 18.9%; Sweden, increasing 11.1%; Australia, increasing 10.3%; the UK, increasing 3.6%; and Germany, increasing 1.2%. In total, within the four-year period, 103 countries and 6,038 institutions around the world increased their WFC. Countries such as Thailand, South Africa, Poland and Chile improved their WFC mostly in physical sciences, at 98.8%, 65.9%, 28.4% and 37.1%, respectively, while Saudi Arabia and Turkey’s WFC increases were in the earth and environmental sector, with respective increases of 153.1% and 64.4%. Russia and Denmark represented the highest increase in WFC for life sciences at 62.4% and 16.9%, respectively. India’s chemistry WFC increased 34.8%, and Singapore increased its earth and environmental WFC by 121.4%, its chemistry WFC by 30.0% and its life sciences WFC by 15.3%.

Source: Nature