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      The Scientific Impact of Developing Nations

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          This paper analyzes science productivity for nine developing countries. Results show that these nations are reducing their science gap, with R&D investments and scientific impact growing at more than double the rate of the developed world. But this “catching up” hides a very uneven picture among these nations, especially on what they are able to generate in terms of impact and output relative to their levels of investment and available resources. Moreover, unlike what one might expect, it is clear that the size of the nations and the relative scale of their R&D investments are not the key drivers of efficiency.

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                Role: Editor
                Journal
                PLoS One
                PLoS ONE
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                plosone
                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                29 March 2016
                2016
                : 11
                : 3
                : e0151328
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Business School, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
                [2 ]Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal
                [3 ]Physics Department, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico City, México
                Universidade de Brasília, BRAZIL
                Author notes

                Competing Interests: Banorte provided support in the form of salaries for author [Reyes-Gonzalez]. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

                Conceived and designed the experiments: CNGB LRG FV. Performed the experiments: CNGB LRG FV. Analyzed the data: CNGB LRG FV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CNGB LRG FV. Wrote the paper: CNGB LRG FV MAPA.

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                PONE-D-14-57074
                10.1371/journal.pone.0151328
                4811426
                27023182
                2f7308bd-8851-4f3b-bd5c-ee0329134dfc
                © 2016 Gonzalez-Brambila et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 27 January 2015
                : 27 February 2016
                Page count
                Figures: 5, Tables: 1, Pages: 14
                Funding
                The authors received no specific funding for this work. Banorte provided support in the form of salaries for author [Reyes-Gonzalez], but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section.
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                All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files. Databases used: OECD (2012) Main Science and Technology Indicators (OECD, Paris). UNESCO, Institute for Statistics (2013), http://stats.uis.unesco.org/unesco/ReportFolders/ReportFolders.aspx?IF_ActivePath=P,54&IF_Language=eng; US Patent and Trademark Office, (2013). ftp://ftp.uspto.gov/pub/taf/; WIPO, Industrial Property Statistics – Aggregate Patent Data, (2013). http://www.wipo.int/ipstats/en/statistics/patents/index.html; World Bank, (2012).World Development Indicators, www.worldbank.org.

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