How does UK university research rank alongside other countries?
With 1% of the world’s population, the UK produces 9% of the world’s scientific papers, and 13% of the most highly cited. It wins 10% of the world’s internationally recognised research prizes and has produced 44 Nobel Prize winners in the last 50 years. UK research productivity is superior to that of the US: in the UK academics produce 16 research papers for every £1 million invested compared to 10 in the US and 4 in Japan.
