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Focuses on the research spending of various nations. Output and outcomes from research investments during the 1990s; Quality of research on national scales; Ways of evaluating the quality of scientific research; Number of published research papers and reviews; Countries that top research output and quality evaluation.

The article discusses contributions by researchers in Australasia and Pacific Islands to science and technology research. Topics include research output and science spending in New Zealand and Australia. Budget cuts in Australia and increase in research budget by New Zealand is mentioned. Institutions including University of Sydney and Monash University in Australia and University of Auckland in New Zealand are mentioned. Charts presenting details of the research papers are included.

The article discusses contributions by researchers in East and Southeast Asia to science and technology research. Topics include investment in the science and technology research made in the East and Southeast Asia, total article count and research spending in China and Japan. Research in physical science and chemistry in institutions such as Peking University in China are mentioned. Charts presenting details of the research papers are included.

The article discusses contributions by researchers in Central and South Asia to science and technology research. Topics include research in physical sciences and chemistry and scientific output and investment in science and technology in India. Scientific institutions such as Indian Institutes of technology (IITs), L N Gumilyov Eurasian National University in Kazakhstan and Quaid-i-Azam University in Pakistan are mentioned. Charts presenting details of the research are included.

The article discusses contributions by researchers in Central, East and South Europe to science and technology research. Topics include expanding research base, institutional organizations and physical sciences research. Institutions including Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) and Academy of Sciences (RAS) in Russia and National Science Center in Poland are discussed. Academy of Sciences in Hungary is mentioned. Charts presenting details of the research papers are included.

The article discusses contributions by researchers in Africa to science and technology research. Topics include domestic science spending, international funding and research articles from Africa. African universities including Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, University of the Witwatersrand and University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa are mentioned. Charts presenting details of the research papers are included.

The article discusses a move by Great Britain government funding agencies requiring grant applicants to show how they calculated the number of animals needed to make the results of an experiment statistically robust. Topics discussed include the responsibility of journals to ensure that the research published is reported in sufficient detail and the importance of ensuring that the power of an animal experiment suits its purpose for funders and researchers to contribute.

The article presents a chart depicting funding for research in universities of Australia and New Zealand, a graph depicting comparison between Australia and New Zealand on spending for higher-education research and development, and a table depicting performance-based research fund for institutes.

The article reports on the declaration made by the White House that government-funded research in the U.S. would be made accessible for the public by 12 months after publication, rather than kept behind paywalls. It notes that federal agencies have been give until August 22, 2013 to produce plans for making the data and papers from the research they fund more accessible to all. Open-access advocacy group Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition called the memorandum a landmark.

The article reports on the participation of the research universities in Germany in a contest intended to improve their global ranking. The winners will receive thirty million euro for five years to help them compete with the likes of Harvard, Cambridge and Tokyo universities. There are also allegations that the competition is bound to be biased by political and regional considerations.

The article discusses a 2006 survey of scientists holding National Institutes of Health (NIH) extramural research funds at 605 institutions about research misconduct in the United States. Between 2002-2005, 8.7% of respondents say they had observed or had direct evidence of researchers in their own department committing one or more incidents of suspected research misconduct. Around 58% of the observed incidents had been reported to official institutions. Responses suggest that 37% of incidents were not reported by anyone.