However, research in the field of computer science is actually thriving, in particular with regard to the publications of researchers from academia and industry together - this is according to a report by the Shmuel Na'eman Institute at the Technion ● The fields at the bottom of the list: energy, environment and engineering
Another difficult report was published this week, after a report by the Israel Academy of Sciences was published at a meeting of the Knesset's Science Committee thatIsrael has slipped from first place to 30th place in the ranking of scientific publications * Danger of extinction for the study of nuclear physics Another report is coming that confirms this figure - according to which the number of articles has increased in recent years only in a minor way, compared to a jump in other countries, including countries in the region such as Turkey, Iran and even Saudi Arabia. The data comes from a report recently published by the Shmuel Na'eman Institute for National Policy Research at the Technion, with the assistance of the National Research and Development Council (NRDC), which refers to the years 2000-2014.
According to the report, the most fruitful field for research in Israeli universities is computer science - both in terms of the amount of research and in terms of their citations. In contrast, the weakest important areas are energy, environment and engineering.
The authors of the report, Dr. Dafna Getz, Dr. Noa Labid and Ella Barzani, write that "according to all indicators of scientific influence, Israel ranks at the top of the world in the field of computer science. Particularly important and interesting is Israel's ranking in the index of partnership in publications with industry: first place in the world in the field of computer science - almost four times the average world rate in the field - and first place in this index of all areas in Israel."
They stated that "we found that, in general, collaboration in publications between academia and industry is high when both academia and industry of a country are particularly strong in a certain area. When we examined the connections between academia and industry in computer science, we found that there is synergy in the actions of the two partners: academia opens its doors to industry and benefits from its resources, and industry, for its part, understands that by investing in academia, it is also building its own future, and acts accordingly."
The authors of the report added that "the cooperation in the field of computer science is not ad hoc, for the purpose of a particular project, sporadic, as appears from the analysis of industry-academia relations in the other territories in Israel, but is a continuous, institutionalized, far-sighted cooperation, in terms of 'Send Your bread is on the surface of the water'".
According to them, "The successful fruits of this cooperation are well known. Can it be thrown on other areas? Despite the many differences between the industries that are responsible for different areas of science, there is something to learn from the high-tech industries in the field of cooperation with academia, for the benefit of all parties."
However, the number of articles signed by Israeli scientists has more or less stagnated and even decreased slightly in the 15 years reviewed. In a conversation with the science website, Dr. Getz says: "We have a presence in science, we also have the achievements, there are researchers who have received Nobel prizes and other very prestigious prizes. Our researchers are invited to give lectures at respected conferences. What's more, we are and this is due to the fact that you can take a figure of the number of researchers in Israel and usually scientific research is mostly carried out in the academy, the number of researchers in universities has not increased particularly. Some years it even shrinks. People have reached retirement age and the universities have not staffed all these standards, and then it turns out that there are fewer faculty members, fewer researchers, and when there are fewer researchers, there is less output."
Is this a result of the lost decade?
Dr. Getz: "That's right. The fact that there were cuts in the academy certainly affected the phenomena of a very minor increase in the amount of publications and the background of other countries in which the number of publications increased dramatically - Singapore, China and there are European countries that have been at the forefront of scientific output for many years, they do advance, they have more publications and also the quality. The results are evident over time and are not immediately visible, so even the budget added now will be felt in a few years:
"The success of hi-tech - also thanks to the academy"
Dr. Getz added that "we are good at computer science, but there is a problem analyzing it because of the nature of the field. Computer science researchers often talk about their scientific progress at conferences, and not necessarily in journal articles. In some databases, they do not provide adequate coverage for the contents of conferences, and then a distortion is created. But when we cross-referenced the data, we saw that in computer science, Israel has a very respectable presence in both publications and conferences."
"In addition to that," she said, "there is a phenomenon that stands out especially in the field of computer science - the publication of scientific articles in collaboration with researchers from academia and industry. Israel is in a good place in the amount of publications shared by both sectors in general and specifically in computer science. This is an indicator of our successes in the field of high-tech and in the fields related to it."
The report also states that "Many attribute the achievements of Israeli high-tech, and rightly so, to the many investments in the defense system, to the technological units of the IDF and to the entrepreneurial nature of Israel. However, the main contribution of the Israeli academy, without which this industry could not have arisen, is less well known. A small number of professors at the Technion and the Hebrew University laid the academic foundations of several academic disciplines that are the basis of the high-tech industry, and trained thousands of engineers and scientists in them. These graduates, equipped with knowledge from the forefront of these disciplines, initiated, promoted and lead the Israeli high-tech industry to this day. The three disciplines that played the main role are electrical engineering, computer science and aeronautical engineering."
Other countries in the Middle East are bypassing Israel
Dr. Getz explained that "it should be taken into account that some of the classic engineering researchers in the faculties in Israel are moving to more advanced fields such as robotics, nanotechnology and biotechnology. The Israelis publish less in these fields and precisely in developing countries they strengthen classical engineering. There is a situation where they are currently publishing more than us in this field."
Indeed, a disturbing finding that emerged from the report is that if two decades ago the number of scientific articles and their quality indicators in Israel was greater than in all the countries of the Middle East combined, several countries in the region decided to invest in these fields, including Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, in particular in the engineering professions. In many fields, the scientific output of these countries overtakes Israel - both in quantitative and qualitative indicators.
According to Dr. Getz, "We still produce scientific publications at a higher rate than our percentage of the global population (0.7% compared to 0.1%), but this figure is decreasing. In other periods, the articles of Israeli researchers constituted about 1% of all scientific articles published in the world."
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The amount of people in Israel who are engaged in science is probably constant. What is multiplying is only the yeshiva students.
Good. What's the wonder? The plants grow near the silver streams.
John
There are 14 million Jews and 7 billion people. That is - 1/2 per mille, i.e. one tenth of what you said 🙂
Therefore - the figure you gave is much more impressive!
Jews were 22% of the Nobel Prize winners and only 1/2% of the world's population. How come they are not good? Because of mistakes made in Israel, our irrationality as a people. I'm just asking - because it's clear that without a state in the 20th century we would cease to exist
Jews bring the blow in the start-up; Jews are good - in silver science, and the strictest - in cord science.
What to do ?! 🙁
My father has been doing eights on the air in recent years to maintain the site.
And the lack of personnel is not only in the site - it is in the whole country. 8 million people is nothing for a country like ours.
If there were more manpower in this country - also politically - it would be much better. (It would be possible to distribute resources so that they are used correctly and bring great benefit: both in the army/security, that is, more soldiers. Both in science: more scientists/researchers. Both in political advocacy; more traffic police officers who prevent loss of life; more Jewish construction workers, and so on.. which increases the political economy.. etc. etc.).
The site here is like a light in the dark. A single meeting place for different opinions from the provocative blogs on the newspaper websites.
It lacks articles on Israeli discoveries because, in my opinion, there is a lack of manpower. Within the limits of what my father can do, I think he does a lot.
Yoda
Not only about her... there are other things that should be presented on this website that will help the reading public to expand their scientific education.
Too bad it doesn't happen.
This site could and still can become a worthy competitor to Nature and Science.
I just have a question: what about an article about Vera Rabin who these days moved to a dark and parallel universe?. To remind you, she was the one who revealed to us the need for the dark matter. Her partner was Fritz Tzviki.
Thank you, father, for building the argument about deterioration in front of the Arabs and the world, layer by layer, without arguing. Not going forward when your enemy is going forward means going backwards - this is relativism. It is impossible to suppress the sciences and humanities and demand political loyalty alongside scientific talent, and being a member of a certain religion. Science is the encouragement of the freedom of scientific creation. On a general level, part of the solution and I hope that people like Akunis read here - if there are 4,000 post-docs who want to return home, give back: to universities, to colleges, to open research institutions also in industrial companies, like the Italian model. to avoid the political intrigues of the universities' fear that this will weaken them. MAY THE BEST WIN. ISMB institution – instituto scientifica mario buelo. Linked to the University of Milan, but the Italian chief scientist worked to tie the strings day and night to encourage connections with industry. set the wheels of research in motion. Both industry and research sides benefit. Along the way, purer sciences, such as theoretical physics, also gain an economic air. And not to argue - who needs the humanities. The space agency should not freeze the yeast. Blasberg, Vozan and Akunis showed a degree of appropriate behavior. To tie projects with agencies like NASA, Europe, China to projects like plasma propulsion or laser propulsion. There is no way that at the end of the day it won't have a civilian application. An airplane that moves at fantastic speed with little volume of fuel.