Science journal Nature has published a supplement this week on the 2010 rankings of research institutions and countries in the Asia-Pacific based on the Nature Publishing Index, a measure of the output of research articles in Nature journals. This was announced by Nature Editor-in-Chief Philip Campbell.
The rankings in this supplement seek to provide snapshots of the Asia-Pacific in 2009 and 2010. Simultaneously with the launch of the Asia-Pacific rankings, a new global version of the index as a beta website - the Nature Publishing Index Global Top 50 (www.natureasia.com/en/publishing-index/global) - was also released. The Nature Publishing Index Global Top 50 is produced in collaboration with Digital Science, a new division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd., owner of Nature.
Nature has stated that the global index ranks the top 50 institutions in the world according to the same criteria, thus enabling the Asia-Pacific rankings to be put in a global context. According to Campbell, any index has its limitations and needs to be deployed with care. The compilation of the data as well as important caveats are explained in the websites and in the supplement, which was completed before the recent terrible events that afflicted Japan. The Nature Publishing Index is just one to be used alongside many. What the indices seek to offer is an insight into some of the highest-quality basic research emerging from the leading institutions in the Asia-Pacific region and around the globe.
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