{"id":242084,"date":"2026-08-03T01:02:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T06:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/nature-index-2026-research-leaders-rankings-are-chinas-east-asian-neighbours-keeping-pace-with-it"},"modified":"2026-08-03T01:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T06:02:41","slug":"nature-index-2026-research-leaders-rankings-are-chinas-east-asian-neighbours-keeping-pace-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/nature-index-2026-research-leaders-rankings-are-chinas-east-asian-neighbours-keeping-pace-with-it","title":{"rendered":"Nature Index 2026 Research Leaders rankings: are China\u2019s East Asian neighbours keeping pace with it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nature-index-2026-research-leaders-rankings-are-chinas-east-asian-neighbours-keeping-pace-with-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japan and South Korea are challenging Western peers in a shifting research landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan and South Korea are challenging Western peers in a shifting research landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}