Table 5-24: Top countries collaborating with United States on S&E articles: 1994 and 2001

Table 5-24

Top countries collaborating with United States on S&E articles: 1994 and 2001

(Percent of U.S. internationally authored articles)

	1994		2001

Rank	Country	Percent	Country	Percent

1	Canada	12.6	Germany	13.5
2	United Kingdom	12.1	United Kingdom	12.9
3	Germany	12.0	Canada	11.1
4	Japan	10.0	Japan	10.2
5	France	8.8	France	8.7
6	Italy	6.7	Italy	6.9
7	Israel	4.7	China^b	4.7
8	Switzerland	4.1	Australia	4.7
9	Netherlands	4.1	Netherlands	4.3
10	Australia	3.8	Spain	3.8
11	Sweden	3.5	Switzerland	3.8
12	Russia	3.3	South Korea	3.6
13	Spain	2.8	Russia	3.5
14	China^a	2.1	Israel	3.5
15	Belgium	2.0	Sweden	3.4

^aExcludes Hong Kong. Including Hong Kong would add 0.5 percentage point.
^bIncludes Hong Kong.

NOTES: Article volume is on a whole-count basis (i.e., each collaborating country is assigned an entire count on international articles). Shares are on the basis of the number of country’s coauthorships as a fraction of U.S. internationally authored articles.

SOURCES: Institute for Scientific Information, Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index; CHI Research, Inc.; and National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics, special tabulations. See appendix table 5-44.

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