Well, NI score is of rather limited scope and purpose - it measures one scientific institution’s impact within the world scientific community only. It does not measure the impact of that institution to the national economy, culture or the quality of life in general. Then, from that angle, maybe Croatian share of the world scientific impact is not so miserable. The upper chart on the right relate summarized country NIs to its population and gross domestic product at purchasing power parity. As one would expect, one million Swiss people have much larger scientific impact than one million Croats and, that really hurts, Croats are poor enough to make their impact cheaper. An ‘advantage’ for being underdeveloped in an integrated world.

And look (lower chart on the right), science education in the underdeveloped countries like Croatia and Slovakia, as seen by the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), a world- wide evaluation of 15-year-old school pupils' scholastic performance, does not correlate with the country’s scientific achievements. Then, what, a good science education for what? International Science Olympics of boys and girls?