America, Japan, and the Rest of the World, but Why?
What country has the most valuable scientists whose research papers have been most often referred to by others?
And how many such researchers, called “Hot Researchers,” does each country have?
The answer for 2004 to 2005 is as follows, according to the March/April issue of “Science Watch” published by Thomson Scientific, a business unit of The Thomson Corporation.
Country ---------- Number of Hot Researchers
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United States ----------- 10
Japan ------------------- 7
Germany --------------- 1
Korea ------------------- 1
Russia ------------------ 1
United Kingdom -------- 1
(Also refer to http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/02-27-2006/0004306667&EDATE=)
So, the Gold Medal for the U.S. (10), the Silver Medal for Far East (8), and the Bronze Medal for Europe (3).
The more you are talented, the more you are requested to contribute to common welfare of human kind.
Therefore, those now wining the medals must contribute to welfare of people in Africa, Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia, China, Latin America and other regions.
And just for the record, as a country of a single or pure race, Japan is apparently No.1 in terms of the Hot Researchers in the world.
Nobody in the world reads scientific papers written in Japanese. Therefore, Japanese scholars use English in presenting their work.
However, all through its history and even since the late 19th century, education in Japan, from (traditional) elementary schools to (modern) universities, has been conducted in Japanese with very rare exceptions, unlike some countries in Africa and Asia that had been once colonized by Europe or the U.S.
Therefore, even scholars and professors in Japan are, generally speaking, not good English speakers.
Conversely, rather, the Japanese language might be a key to success of Japan in the scientific field. (The Korean language is the nearest language to Japanese as the location of Korea is.)
America by itself is almost one complete world with multiple races in it, however, dominated culturally by European Americans, as well as with incredible natural resources, if compared with Japan.
Yet, the gap between the two major players is just ten to seven, also incredibly.
The issue is how people in the world, except Japanese and Americans, would judge and interpret this fact.
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