China overtakes US in science paper publications

[beijingwalker]

China overtakes US in science paper publications
August 7 2020

A Japanese research institute says China has overtaken the United States as the world leader in the number of academic papers published in natural science.

The National Institute of Science and Technology Policy made the announcement in an annual report released on Friday. The institute belongs to Japan's Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry.

The report says researchers from China had an average of more than 305,900 papers published annually in the three years until 2018.

The US came second with more than 281,400, followed by Germany with more than 67,000. Japan remained in fourth place with more than 64,800.

Back in 1998, China ranked ninth, publishing around 17,000 papers annually. This number has increased about 18-fold over the past two decades.

The most frequently cited, high-quality research papers are called "adjusted top 10 percent papers".

The US maintains its lead in this category with 37,800 such papers. China was second with 33,800 papers . Britain was third with more than 8,800 papers, followed by Germany with more than 7,400 papers. Japan was in ninth place with more than 3,800 papers.

Igami Masatsura from the national institute says he is surprised to see China surpass the US.

He points out that China now has more researchers and is spending more on academic studies. He said Japan needs to comprehensively improve in academia, including better treatment of graduate students.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20200807_28/

 

[Beast]

China lead will further increase as US ban Chinese student/professor who use to contribute alot of research for US academic due to sinophobic. They instead join China rank and increase our lead.

 

[beijingwalker]

China Overtakes US as World's Top Scientific Paper Provider
In third position comes Germany, followed by Japan in fourth place.

By Fabienne Lang
August 12, 2020

China has typically been a top contender in the world in many industries: the electrical vehicle market, cryptocurrency creation, robotics. You name it, China's got a hand in the pot too.

With new data shared on Friday, it appears that China is now the leader in releasing scientific research papers in the natural sciences, jumping ahead of the U.S.

Germany comes third, and Japan fourth, as per the Nikkei Asian Review.

China as the leader in R&D
The data clearly shows China as a leader in scientific investigation as it boasts 19.9% of scientific papers published, compared to the U.S. with 18.3%. As per the Nikkei Asian Review's report, these numbers are based on peer-reviewed papers published in scientific journals.

If we go a little back in time, between 2016 and 2018, China published 305,927 papers, taking over the U.S.' 281,487 papers, and then Germany's 67,041 papers, making the latter the third-largest scientific paper producing country.

The numbers are clear to see via a graph produced by Japan's Insitute for Science and Technology Policy, which took the numbers from the U.S.-based Clarivate Analytics:

Breaking it down into years, China has published 18 times more research papers compared to its average between 1996 and 1998, and 3.6 times more compared with the 2006-2008 time span.

And we're not just talking about churning out research papers that few care about. Even though the U.S. remains on top in terms of numbers of research papers cited, China is not far behind. Of the top 10% most-cited papers in 2017, 24.7% were from the U.S., and 22% from China, as per the Nikkei.

And in terms of the top 1% of most-cited papers in the world, the U.S. is at 29.3%, with China at 21%.

That said, the specializations between the two leading nations are different. China's papers focus more closely on materials science, chemistry, engineering, computer science, and mathematics. Whereas the U.S.' concentrate on clinical medicine and basic life sciences.

And in terms of researchers, China boasts 1.87 million, whereas the U.S. has 1.43 million.

https://interestingengineering.com/china-overtakes-us-as-worlds-top-scientific-paper-provider