{
  "id": 3820090,
  "title": "Despite High Spending, Japan Trails Global Leaders in Top-Cited Science Papers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/despite-high-spending-japan-trails-global-leaders-in-top-cited",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-27T21:00:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nippon.com",
    "slug": "nippon-com",
    "url": "https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02868/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Japan ranks third in the world for research spending, but remains in thirteenth place for its number of highly cited science research papers.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}