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3 Results of the Benchmarking Experiments
3 Results of the Benchmarking Experiments
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For example, any person is likely to be both a researcher and a user of research. Similarly, some of the "US" academic researchers were born outside the United States or conducted collaborative research with nonUS researchers.
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; among them were four industry researchers and three academic researchers, all from the United States. 3.2 How Panels Assessec!
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The materials science and engineering panel started with subfields identified in a recent report by the National Science and Technology Council that discussed materials science and engineering across the federal government. The immunology panel faced a greater difficulty: the field is an amalgam of subfields in larger disciplines, and no subfield classification systems existed, so the panel chose to develop its own.
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For scoring purposes, 1 represented the "forefront", 3 represented "among world leaders", and 5 represented "behind world leaders." The second half of each table was an assessment of the likely future position of the United States relative to the world materials community. Here, 1 represented "gaining or extending", 3 represented "maintaining", and 5 represented "losing".
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For example, undergraduate and PhD degrees in the United States are not directly comparable with all similarly labeled degrees in other industrialized countries. In some fields, notably mathematics, quantitative information that could be used for international comparisons was available from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
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(Although the other panels did not explicitly make that point, more than half the graduate students in science and engineering are foreign-born, so the national research enterprise depends heavily on researchers from other countries.) The materials science and engineering panel found that the United States was at least among the world leaders in all subfields of materials science and engineering and the leader in some subfields, although neither the United States nor any other country was the world leader in the field as a whole.
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3.5 Future Relative Position of US Research With respect to the likely future position of the United States in research relative to other countries, a more diverse set of factors was identified, largely by qualitative techniques: . Intellectual quality of researchers and ability to attract talented researchers-mathematics, materials, and immunology.
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