Papers published by U.S. researchers were much more likely to have had foreign co-authors, which the SciVal analysts think means that the U.S. is more collaborative as well as being a bigger research force.

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Unfortunately, the authors propose major foreign trade restrictions to plug this leakage.

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Robin Cook, the foreign secretary, was apparently let down by a paper on 18th-century authors.

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