[ludflu]

relevant visualization of where research happens: http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.8087.1355853889!/image/c...

[guimarin]

I'm really curious about all the research coming out of Iran. would not have expected a country under lockdown to be doing so much research.

[samstave]

I'd like to see the same visualization, but for the distribution of the nationalities/origin of the actual paper authors.

i.e. of the ~300K papers published in the US, how many of those papers were authored and co-authored by immigrants (H1-B, or naturalized) etc.

I suspect that a greater % of these papers were written by foreign born researchers.

[jlgreco]

I would expect the general trends to be about the same, though all less pronounced.

Say 25% of the researchers in the US were born in the US: The US column would drop significantly but since that other 75% is probably spread more or less evenly across the other columns, they would only all rise a little.

The only really dramatic change I would expect would be to mainland China. It probably wouldn't loose much, but would likely gain quite a lot.

[samstave]

..."and as president, I promise to up our research unit output by a factor of 50%. I assure you my opponent does not have a comparable strategy for increasing research unit output - nor any other factors, such as his misguided job-unit creation plan."