Academic Development
Southeast Asia has almost doubled its share of the world’s research papers over a 10-year period, and increased its patenting activity by 40 percent in the past three years, according to a survey conducted by the IP & Science unit of Thomson Reuters.
The recent research found that the region has increased its share of the world’s scientific literature from 2006, with approximately 13,700 document, accounting for 1.37 percent of all science documents on the web, to 2015 with 37,000, representing 2.43 percent of the total share.