Engineering science, like other fields of research and other world-spanning endeavors, has its
rising and fading centers. This study uses surveys of academic researchers and literature in
engineering to ascertain the surging Japanese and the relatively declining American research
performance. Their recognition and centrality, as well as Japanese and American engineering
scientists' participation in global collegial networks are examined Tests corroborate the hypothesis that a place of surging performance (Japan) is deprived of recognition and not yet a
major center of influence and collaboration, and that, conversely, a decreasing relative perform ance of the existing center (United States) continues to accumulate recognition and centrality,
exceeding its performance.
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