How do you measure research output? If you measure it as papers published per capita (admittedly not a very good metric), several european countries lie above t

How do you measure research output? If you measure it as papers published per capita (admittedly not a very good metric), several european countries lie above the US. The EU in general also has the highest amount of scientists/researchers per capita. We tend to be biased against results from outside the major ivy league institutions because ivy league results are reported in the press as "harvard professor finds X" whereas the rest of the world has its findings reported as "researches discover Y", or if they are lucky "scientists from country X discover Y". This leads to the extremely superior branding of the top US universities which everyone can name, while they struggle to name 3 of the best institutions in Europe.