A MINDSET of DENIAL

摘要

Mr McGauran rightly points out that the National Science Board's table compares the ratio of a country's average citations per publication with the world average. Nonetheless, the Minister's criticism does not negate the conclusion of "a worrisome decline in the relative importance of our scientific literature" in moving from equal ninth to 14th place. Mr McGauran cites a "time-trend published by the Australian Academy of Science" (AAS). The 2001 study is by Linda Butler of the Australian National University.