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the Scientific Citation Index showed that the number of papers published in the
major science journals grew from 2.79 million papers in 1996−1998 to 3.14 million
in 2002-2004 (Matthieson et al.
2006
). Figure
11.1
also shows that 32.9 % of the pa-
pers in the1996-8 period were written by researchers located in the top 30 locations.
This proportion increased to 34.56 % by 2004, but even within this pattern the top
two and top ten locations revealed even greater concentrations, whilst several Asian
Fig. 11.1
Largest Research Centres: Measured by Scientific Papers. (Source: Revised from Mat-
thieson et al.
2006
)
