Europe ‘struggling to catch’ US on high-impact science

Americans produce nearly twice as many highly cited papers in key fields, with China also catching up on EU

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June 8, 2017

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June 8, 2017

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Follow the leader: the US continues to outperform Europe in terms of number of papers produced, a new study has found

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