Science has a way of transcending borders. It has done so from the beginning, going back to the ancient Greeks, but as the world grows more interconnected in so many ways, the pace of international collaboration in science has in recent years picked up markedly. To take just one indication of this trajectory, in 1996 25 percent of scientific articles were written by authors from two or more countries. Today it’s 35 percent and climbing. As New York University president John Sexton points out in the essay that kicks off this special report, science today is more collaborative than it’s ever been . To cover this important trend, Scientific American and Nature teamed up to assess The State of the World’s Science.
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