Royal Society Report Documents Globalization of Science

" 'Emerging nations are transforming the scene, although traditional powers remain.' That's how physicist and former CERN director Christopher Llewellyn Smith today summarized a new Royal Society report on the state of global science. The report, titled "Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global Scientific Collaboration in the 21st Century," analyzes peer-reviewed science papers with abstracts in English to assess which countries were claiming slices of an expanding research pie....So what steps can the world take to enable omnipresent science? The report suggests concrete measures such as more open-access journals to allow poorer institutions to have access...."