When Springer Nature, which publishes the natural science journal "Nature", examined the papers published in high-level academic journals, 2012% of the papers originated in Japan from 2016 to 19.6 and 2016 from 1 to 3.7. It turns out that it has decreased by XNUMX% annually.
According to Springer Nature, among the articles published in high-level academic journals, articles originating in Japan accounted for 2012% in 9.2, but fell to 2017% in 8.6.Among the papers in the field of natural sciences contained in the database of the international publisher Elsevier, high-level papers originating in Japan have continued to decline from 2007% in 7.7 to 2015% in 5.1.
It has been pointed out that the research capabilities of universities are declining at a rapid pace as the Japanese economy declines sharply, but the survey results that support this have come out.
For the first time, we investigated the ratio of research results published in high-level academic journals to the total number of papers, targeting Japanese universities and research institutes. The total number of papers from 2012 to 2017 was in the order of Tokyo University, Kyoto University, Tohoku University, Osaka University, and Kyushu University, but when looking at the ratio of high-level papers to the total number of papers, Gakuin University stands at the top. , Tokyo University, Konan University, Kyoto University, Aoyama Gakuin University.
"Small-scale research organizations are inconspicuous, but there are cases where they are conducting high-level research efficiently," says Springer Nature.
