China represents the next wave, experts agree, its scientific rise still too fresh to show up in most statistics but already apparent.
At the age of 39, Elsayed has written a memoir—Inadmissible telling the story of his scientific rise and fall.
More recently, "China's economic and scientific rise … has depended on English as the medium of global contact and publication and so has strengthened the language's importance in turn".
For the past decade, Aguilera has run a much smaller NIH-funded program, the Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE), which supports a few dozen undergraduates doing research and a handful of graduate students pursing Ph.D. degrees in the biomedical sciences.
The Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) and the Research Initiative in Scientific Enhancement (RISE) programs (two of the student development programs of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences NIGMSS)) are the entry point for many URM students into the biomedical research training community.
Because scientific journals rise and fall on the basis of their perceived credibility, I believe the NIEHS has a clear responsibility to ensure that EHP continues to be viewed as entirely credible in publishing the very best research in our field.
A report published in July by Britain's House of Commons Science and Technology Committee found that the average price of an academic journal in Britain rose by 58% between 1998 and 2003, while the retail price index rose by 11% in that period, and scientific output rose by 20%.
In the 2000 to 2009 period Turkey's output of scientific papers rose from barely 5,000 to 22,000; with less cash, Iran's went up 1,300, to nearly 15,000.
Usually a minimum of a first degree is specified for scientific posts, rising to an M.Sc.
According to last year's UNESCO Science Report, the number of researchers in the country grew by 51%, to about 7000 full-time researchers, between 2002 and 2008; its scientific output rose by 71%, to 2766 papers, in the same period.
Specifically, between 1999 and 2008, the impact factor of journals published on behalf of European scientific societies rose more than those published on behalf of the US ones (by 73.7±110.0%, as compared with 39.7±70.0%, p = 0.049).
