WHY DON'T ?? CHEMISTS think their field is innovative enough

About 80% of chemists surveyed by Reaxys think people are gone towards other scientific fields with more ‘newsworthy’ research

A survey lead by Reaxys, Elsevier’s web-based chemical data retrieval tool, suggests that chemistry has an innovation problem when compared with other disciplines, and that this may be harming its ability to attract and retain talented scientists. Reaxys polled 186 chemists from across academia and industry, 78% of whom said they thought potential chemists chose to go into other sciences because the research seemed more ‘newsworthy’.

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