Table 5-23
International coauthorship of S&E articles with the United States, by selected country/economy: 2002 and 2012
(Percent)
 
U.S. share of
country/economy’s
international articles
  Country/economy’s
share of U.S.
international articles
Country/economy 2002 2012 2002 2012
 
World 43.8 43.0 na na
China 36.8 47.5 5.1 16.2
United Kingdom 30.9 33.2 13.1 14.3
Germany 30.3 31.0 13.8 13.3
Canada 53.1 48.9 11.3 11.4
France 25.5 28.5 8.6 8.8
Italy 32.4 34.0 6.9 7.4
Japan 41.2 37.1 9.8 6.8
Australia 36.6 32.9 4.7 6.0
South Korea 55.1 53.9 3.7 6.0
Spain 26.9 29.5 3.9 5.8
Netherlands 29.6 33.7 4.4 5.6
Switzerland 31.6 33.4 4.0 4.8
Sweden 27.3 30.5 3.4 3.4
Brazil 37.0 41.5 2.5 3.2
Israel 52.8 55.6 3.5 2.8
India 34.3 34.2 1.9 2.7
Taiwan 55.4 52.3 1.9 2.7
Belgium 23.5 26.0 2.2 2.5
Russia 25.3 29.9 3.8 2.4
Denmark 29.8 32.3 2.0 2.3
Austria 24.8 28.9 1.5 2.0
Poland 26.2 32.2 1.9 2.0
Mexico 42.5 46.3 1.6 1.7
Norway 29.6 30.8 1.2 1.6
Finland 27.9 29.9 1.5 1.5
Singapore 30.0 31.7 0.7 1.5
Greece 27.7 37.7 0.9 1.5
South Africa 31.0 39.3 0.8 1.4
Turkey 39.7 40.3 0.9 1.3
Chile 40.4 45.1 0.8 1.3
Portugal 19.5 25.1 0.6 1.3
Czech Republic 21.1 29.3 0.8 1.2
New Zealand 37.4 34.1 1.1 1.2
Argentina 35.2 38.2 1.1 1.2
Ireland 23.4 30.1 0.5 1.0
Hungary 29.3 33.9 1.1 1.0
 

na = not applicable.

NOTES: Internationally coauthored articles have at least one collaborating institution from the indicated country/economy and an institution from outside that country/economy. Article counts are from the set of journals covered by the Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). Articles are classified by the year they entered the database, rather than their year of publication, and are assigned to a country/economy on the basis of the institutional address(es) listed in the article. Articles are credited on a whole-count basis (i.e., each collaborating country/economy is credited one count). Countries/economies are ranked by the percentage of their share of the United States’ international articles in 2012; countries/economies with less than 1% of the United States’ 2012 international articles are omitted.

SOURCES: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, and The Patent Board,™ special tabulations (2013) from Thomson Reuters, SCI and SSCI, http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/. See appendix table 5-56.

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