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> not very smart (brain drain)

Large EU countries have a higher per capita scientific output than the US

If you weight papers by some measure of impact, e.g. by citation count, this is not true.

The Nature Index, which shows that data, already only selects the most impactful journals. I wasn't able to find any data that weighs output by citation count.

https://www.wipo.int/en/web/global-innovation-index/w/blogs/...

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