Nature Europe site should highlight most productive countries

Productive Consumption and Growth in Developing Countries

Productive consumption enables the satisfaction of current needs and, at the same time, increases the productive potential of labour. Theoretical as well as empirical evidence suggests that productive consumption is primarily relevant to low-income countries. From the perspective of growth theory, the productive consumption hypothesis is of fundamental interest because it modifies the "harsh" i...

Christianity and Nature in Europe

Transposases are the most abundant, most ubiquitous genes in nature

Genes, like organisms, struggle for existence, and the most successful genes persist and widely disseminate in nature. The unbiased determination of the most successful genes requires access to sequence data from a wide range of phylogenetic taxa and ecosystems, which has finally become achievable thanks to the deluge of genomic and metagenomic sequences. Here, we analyzed 10 million protein-en...

Ten years of biomedical research in West Africa (2005–14): A study of the ten most productive countries

The objective of this research is to determine (i) the quantity and quality of publications in biomedical research in top-producing countries in West Africa during 2005–2014, as well as (ii) the characteristics of the journals used by the researchers and collaborative evidence in the area. Data was drawn from MEDLINE/PubMed and Google Scholar, while the impact factors of the journals were retri...

The nature of nature in early modern Europe.