Is American Science in Decline?

Yu Xie and Alexandra Killewald have good news for Americans. They have concluded that American science is NOT in decline.

An interesting and concise effort to address prevailing concerns about the status of American science. The authors use a series of large, particularly longitudinal, datasets to address questions about the status of American science relative to other nations, the state of American science education, the employment prospects of American scientists, changes in the nature of the scientific workforce, and public attitudes towards science.