Figure 1.
Cluster analysis of the country ranks of common econometric indices (sources for the indices are detailed in Table S1).
Table 1.
Relation between the relative research efforts in the various disciplines in each country during 2010, and technological and economic development indicators.
Figure 2.
Relation between national wealth per capita (GDPc) and relative investment in neuroscience during 2010.
The size of the circle is proportional to the total number of publications of that country per capita during 2010. Countries names are given with ISO abbreviations.
Figure 3.
Relation between national wealth per capita (GDPc) and relative investment in agriculture during 2010.
The size of the circle is proportional to the total number of publications of that country per capita during 2010. Countries names are given with ISO abbreviations.
Table 2.
Spearman correlation coefficients of the comparisons between the relative research effort (RCA) of a given discipline in the year 2000 in a country with its economic growth as % difference in GDP per capita during the years 2000–2005.
Figure 4.
Strength of correlation between RCA of a given discipline in 2000 and the economic growth achieved by the country in the following years measured as % increase in GDPc in the years following 2000.
Figure 5.
Relation between economic growth achieved during the period 2000–2005 (% change in GDPc) and RCA of physics during 2000.
The size of the circles is proportional to the total number of publications per capita of that country during 2000. Countries names are given with their ISO abbreviation.
Figure 6.
Relation between economic growth achieved during the period 2000–2005 (% change in GDPc) and RCA of medicine during 2000.
The size of the circles is proportional to the total number of publications per capita of that country during 2000. Countries names are given with their ISO abbreviation.
Table 3.
Summary economic data from “The World Factbook, CIA”, for countries with the highest GDP growth between the years 2000–2010.
Table 4.
Spearman correlation coefficients between RCA of selected disciplines in a given year and economic growth during the following 5 years using different databases and for different moments in time.
Table 5.
Correlations between economic growth and changes in RCA of the different disciplines classified by Scopus, within simultaneous and asynchronous time intervals.