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The scientific impact of nations

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Figure 1: Comparing Europe with the United States.
Figure 2: Comparing economic and scientific wealth.
Figure 3: National strengths in different disciplines.
Figure 4: Disciplinary strengths in the United States, the 15 European Union nations in the comparator group (EU15), and the United Kingdom.
Figure 5: Comparing financial inputs with scientific outputs and outcomes.
Figure 6: Inputs, outputs and outcomes for the EU15 nations, the United States and the United Kingdom.

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I am particularly grateful to Robert Thornes and John Kirk of the OST, London, for their comments and detailed checking of my figures, and to Zack King for his assistance in data mining.

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