(articles.sun-sentinel.com): Some years ago, Scientific American reported that science was growing faster in the European Union than in the United States. This report was concerned with the number of scientific publications per capita. It noted that while the number in the EU is steadily increasing, it is declining in America. Ahead of the United States at the time were six countries. In the past year, the United States moved to 12th place. In the words of Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria, "Physical Review, a top science journal, notes that the number of papers published in it by Americans has been falling dramatically, from 61 percent in 1985 to 29 percent in 2003." The journal's editor said "the main reason was China, which now submits to it 1,000 papers a year."
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