The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) has been ranked seventh most prolific agency in the Asia-Pacific region, in terms of the total number of research papers published in Nature Publishing Group’s portfolio of Nature-branded journals in 2009, according to the Nature Asia-Pacific Publishing Index. The Index, which tracks annual research output published from 13 countries and 429 institutions in Asia-Pacific, placed A*STAR ahead of top universities in China and Australia, including Tsinghua University, Peking University, Australian National University and University of Queensland. Topping the list by institution ranking was Japan’s University of Tokyo.
Publications from A*STAR reflected the wide spectrum of deep capabilities in A*STAR research institutes, such as chemistry, bioinformatics, cancer research, genomics and genetics, signal transduction pathways, stem cell research, materials engineering and nanotechnology. In the past 12 months, A*STAR scientists published a total of 19 papers in eight Nature-branded journals, which included Nature, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Chemistry, Nature Genetics, Nature Materials, Nature Methods, Nature Nanotechnology and Nature Reviews Cancer.
The Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) was one of A*STAR’s most prolific research institutes published in Nature in the past 12 months. By country rankings, Singapore came in fifth overall, out-performing India (sixth) and New Zealand (seventh). The total number of papers published in Nature journals by Singapore’s scientists in 2009 saw more than a 12-fold increase from only two articles published in 1998. Heading the 2009 list of countries was Japan, followed by China, Australia and Korea.
The Nature Asia-Pacific Publishing Index tracks research output published from countries and institutions in Asia-Pacific (including India and Australasia). It is updated weekly by downloading a 12-month window of data from nature.com, the online platform for Nature journals, and offers insight and analysis into the performance of these nations and territories.
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