Increase In research output

Increase in research output

Pakistan is the second country in the world that has shown the largest percentage increase in research output in 2018.

According to estimates put together by publishing-services company Clarivate Analytics for Nature, Pakistan is one of the emerging economies that produced 15,9% more research output. Egypt came first at 21%. The research was measured in numbers of scientific papers published.

It isn’t clear what has led to the rise for Egypt and Pakistan but experts think that increases in funding and international collaborations might have boosted the numbers in Egypt and Pakistan.

“One reason could be that both countries started from a low base — near the bottom of the list of top 40 countries in overall numbers of papers,” the article quoted Robert Tijssen, head of science and innovation studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands, as saying.