February 25, 2000

European Scientists Said to Have More Impact Than Americans; St. Lucia Is Big Education Spender; Welsh Scholar Under Fire for Jokes; Myanmar Fails to Foil Protests

The papers of European scientists are having a much stronger impact than those from the United States, according to an analysis conducted in Britain.

J. Sylvan Katz, a senior research fellow in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, says previous analyses of how often the papers produced by scientists based in given countries are cited by others -- a common measure of how important a paper is -- were flawed. The analyses haven't taken