The National Center for Science Information Systems carried out a survey for academic research activities in December, 1993. This survey was conducted covering all researchers belonging to academic research organizations iucluding universities throughout the country. Replies were obtained from 1,275 organizations (percentage of reply : 93.5%) and 127,127 persons (percentage of reply : 81.7%). This paper describes the outline of the results, including number of researchers for each particular field, number of researchers for each organizations, their academic degrees (doctorates), present research subjects, research activities in overseas, foreign languages used in international conferences and academic societies, academic society affiliations, and awards.
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