Response to NSF Science & Engineering Indicators 2010

The 2010 National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Engineering Indicators report was released 15 January. Produced biennially, this report is widely considered to be the gold standard for information detailing the state of the American science and engineering enterprise. For details, please log onto http://bit.ly/6hNmRi.

Alan I. Leshner, chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and executive publisher of the journal Science, offered the following preliminary response:

"The Science Indicators report once again provides a superb and very useful, in-depth analysis of the state of U.S. and international science and engineering research and education, both basic and applied. Science Indicators also reveals some very important and at times alarming trends about international threats to the U.S. lead in science."

For additional commentary, contact Ginger Pinholster at (202) 326-6421, gpinhols@aaas.org.