Africa: Science Budget Hike Offers Short Cut to Journal Impact

27 January 2016

Developing countries can take a short cut to improving the impact of their research by simply increasing national science budgets, a study finds.

A model developed by a team of researchers, which looked at publications in ecology, shows that the amount spent on research in developing countries directly correlates to the number of publications from these countries in top journals.

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