*ISLAMABAD – Pakistan beats China to become the second largest emergingeconomy of the World with largest percentage increase in 2018 in globalresearch output.*
*Pakistan is the second country in the world that has shown the largestpercentage increase in research output in 2018, reports Nature.comlink.*
According to estimates put together by publishing-services companyClarivate Analytics for Naturelink, Pakistan is one ofthe emerging economies that produced 15,9% more research output. Egypt camefirst at 21%. The research was measured in numbers of scientific paperspublished.
It isn’t clear what has led to the rise for Egypt and Pakistan but expertsthink that increases in funding and international collaborations might haveboosted the numbers in Egypt and Pakistan
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“One reason could be that both countries started from a low base — near thebottom of the list of top 40 countries in overall numbers of papers,” thearticle quoted Robert Tijssen, head of science and innovation studies atLeiden University in the Netherlands, as saying.
The figures have added the input from more local or national scientificjournals.
