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Scientific Inequalities: Publications and Populations

By bcohen on February 8, 2007.

This is a visualization of scientific productivity and population. It's from the online edition of the German "Spiegel."

The top map illustrates the number of scientific publications per year. Contrast this to the population map, shown underneath it. I've copied the map below. Read on to see...

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Here's the caption, in German: "Wissenschaftliche Forschung gemessen an der Zahl der Publikationen im Jahr 2001 (oben) gegenuber dem Kartogramm der Bevolkerungszahl der Lander der Welt (unten)."

Make of it what you will. In fact, I wonder what you do make of it.

(And with apologies to our German readers -- I had to take the umlaut's out, which the page doesn't support.)

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You will find the original worldmmapper pages here: http://www.worldmapper.org/

I don't like these projections because they don't properly represent geographic information. Have a look at this one:
http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=249
Can you say which countries have the highest number of people killed by drought?
In addition, compared to the land area map of worldmapper ( http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=1 ) there are much nicer equal area projection that represent the shapes of the continents much better. And it is unfair to make a comparison with Mercator's projection which is conformal.

GH - I think it basically says, Scientific research published in 2001, and then a map based on population (below). But the link is under the first "This" above. Thanks, BRC