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The National Institute of Science and Technology Policy NISTEP has published the report Japanese Science and Technology Indicators 2021 in which the activities in science and technology of the worlds leading countries are systematically analyzed and compared with the Japanese research performance.The institute which is part of the Ministry of Education Culture Sports Science and Technology MEXT compares among other things the number of scientific publications in total and with great influence as well as expenditure on research and development the number of researchers and patent applications. Overall China and the USA dominate international research.In the ranking of published publications between 2017 and 2019 which were frequently cited Japan slipped one place to tenth place. Japanese researchers published 3787 frequently cited publications in the three-year period but were overtaken by India which achieved ninth place with 4082 publications. China is at the top of the list for the first time with 40219 widely cited publications relegating the USA to second place with 37124 publications. In third place is Great Britain with 8687 publications followed by Germany with 7248 publications. A decade earlier Japan was in fourth place in this ranking.According to the report Japanese publications were cited most frequently from the fields of physics clinical medicine and chemistry while the US was cited for clinical medicine basic life science and physics and China was cited for materials science chemistry engineering computer science and mathematics.In terms of the total number of publications between 2017 and 2019 China 353174 publications global share of 21.8 also overtook the USA 285717 publications share of 17.5 and also achieved first place in this ranking for the first time. Japan also fell behind in comparison with this indicator With 65742 publications and a share of 4.1 percent the country ranks fourth behind Germany 68091 publications worldwide share of 4.2.The US and China also spent the most money on research and development followed by Japan. The same applies to the number of researchers in the country.As in previous years Japan was in the lead in the field of international patent applications. With around 61800 patent applications share of 26.3 the country is in first place just as it was ten years ago ahead of the USA and Germany.The report was initially published in Japanese in August 2021. The English summary was published in November 2021.
