An index developed to evaluate the SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CAPACITY of Shanghai shows the city rapidly advancing, while shedding light on future challenges.
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About the data
The Nature Index tracks high-quality research and collaborations by measuring the contribution of institutions and, by extension, cities and countries, to a set of high-quality journals in the natural sciences. An institution's contribution to these journals is its share, while count is the number of an institution’s journal articles that appear in the Nature Index. When evaluating the collaborative effort between two institutions, a bilateral collaboration score (CS) is derived. This is sum of the shares from articles with authors from both institutions. Local bilateral collaborations between institutions within the greater city area are represented by the lines on the map, while the top international bilateral collaborations are listed in a popup box of each institution. The collaborations of child institutions that are part of a larger institution are shown as dashed lines. In most instances, only the primary location of an institution is mapped. Read more about index metrics.