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10 International Leadership
10 International Leadership
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The United States is in a leadership position in some areas of chemical engineer ing technology, but lags in many niches compared with various other countries. This report presents a U.S.-based perspective on the field of chemical engineering, but like most areas of science and engineering, chemical engineering is a globally connected enterprise both commercially and academically.
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As indicated in the 2007 report, a chemical engineering affiliation is a reliable measure of a researcher's being involved in chemical engineering in the United States, but likely undercounts authors in other regions where department names do not necessarily include the term "chemical engineering." These data include all countries affiliated with each paper. Over the entire 40-year period, 1,250 papers were published with coauthors from the United States, Asia, and the European Union (EU)
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Such journals include Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Nature. Indeed, the fraction of publications in these three journals with a coauthor having a chemical engineering affiliation has grown over time (Table 10-3)
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441 (14%) Chemical Engineering Europe 757 (35%)
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Am 1 0 1 3 0 2 Australia 4 6 3 9 2 2 Other 5 2 2 1 9 8 United States 30 26 19 20 24 13 Chemical Engineering Europe 53 51 48 37 34 19 Asia 4 14 24 22 24 49 Science Canada 10 7 4 11 6 7 S Am 0 0 0 2 1 1 Australia 1 2 3 7 10 5 Other 2 0 2 1 1 6 NOTE: Individual articles may be attributed to more than one country.
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9 (3%) Internationalization 0% 9% 23% 31% 32% 51% Total Papers 12,889 13,994 15,642 19,697 21,065 19,683 Total ChemE 40 (0%)
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Not all countries are included in the defined regions, so this is only an approximate measure of international collaboration.
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FIGURE 10-2 Comparison of the field-weighted citation impact score for the top 100 cited publications from each region from the full list of journals with an author having a chemical engineering department affiliation. NOTE: 2005 is the first year in which South America published at least 100 papers in these journals, but it did not produce any notable outliers in earlier years.
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More concerning for U.S. leadership in chemical engineering and U.S.
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FIGURE 10-4 Number of publications from the United States and China in the top 100 cited articles in a given year over 5-year intervals from 1991 to 2020 within selected core chemical engineering journals: AIChE Journal, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (I and EC) , and Chemical Engineering Science (CES)
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. The increased research output from China is a result of large investments in technology areas, many of which are either central or highly relevant to chemical engineering, investments that are approaching the gross expenditures on R&D of the United States (Heney, 2020)
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A good example of a format for collaboration is the Global Grand Challenges Summits organized by the National Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Academy of Engineering.3 This series of conferences brings together professionals and students to explore solutions to the Grand Challenges for Engineering, and could serve as a venue for creating and sustaining such collaborations. Recommendation 10-1: Across all areas of chemical engineering, in addition to advancing fundamental understanding, research investments should be set aside for support of interdisciplinary, cross-sector, and international collaborations in the areas of energy; water, food, and air; health and medicine; manufacturing; materials research; tools development; and beyond, with the goal of connecting U.S.
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