Why Japan's science lags
| 2 August, 2010 | Adie Chan |
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A new report suggest a reason for why Japanese research continues to have less of an impact than research from other countries: a failure to collaborate.
A new report from Thomson Reuters shows that Japan has relatively few international collaborations, and this may explain why its citation averages continue to lag behind those of other G7 nations, according to the Times Higher Education.
In certain fields, however, the country shines — such as space sciences, immunology, plant and animal science and geosciences.
Do you agree that international collaborations can have such a profound effect on research? Why?
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I agree (international; not only but generally) collaborations are important in research to provide different approaches to broden eyes.
The limitation of Japan is mainly come from the language skill, because Japanese is far more different from so called western language.
Might also have to do with their unusual non or minimal peer reviewed university research publications?
Unlike 30 or 40 years ago, it is difficult to have all the first line technological know-how that is required to investigate in depth a biological question in a medium sized single lab. Collaboration while sharing technologies and unique technological approaches is therefore a must.
japan is lagging because by the help of other countries we would able to know on what problem our world is.without knowing the each other problems we cant work upon it.as we are knowing neccessity is the way of advancement.and japanese have language problems with others so this is more disadvantageous in their reaserch.