DUTCH SCIENCE: On a Slippery Slope to Mediocrity?

If Nobel Prizes and journal citations are gold standards, Dutch science is on a high. But critics warn that the scientific community has already begun to lose its edge. During the past 2 decades, the Netherlands has stopped being a top science spender, scientific careers have gone out of fashion, and women's participation in science remains appallingly low--a situation that some experts predict will soon lead to a steep shortage of researchers.