Japan Research Report: The number of Chinese scientific papers is the number one in the world, and the quality is also overwhelmed by the United States

Polar News reporter Manda

Intern Wei Yingjie

According to Singapore's "Lianhe Zaobao" reported on August 12, a report issued by a research institute under the Ministry of Culture's Science and Technology of the Ministry of Liberalty Ministry states that the number of papers published by China in the field of natural sciences has surpassed the United States and jumped to the world's first. Moreover, in the first 1%papers in the world, the Chinese research accounts for 27.2%, and this indicator has also overwhelmed the United States to become the first.

It is reported that the Institute of Science and Technology and Academic Policy of the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Culture and Technology of the Ministry of Culture, analyzes the number of papers published by the world's major countries in the world from 2018 to 2020 according to the data from the US survey company Clarivate Analytics. The average data is the basis for calculation.

The report shows that the number of papers published by China in the field of natural sciences has surpassed the United States and ranked first in the world. It is Germany after China and the United States. In addition, China chases the United States in terms of scientific research funds. In terms of the number of researchers, China also surpassed the United States to become the world's number one.

(Source: Japan "Sankei Shimbun")

In the first 1%papers in the world, the Chinese research accounts for 27.2%. The number of times a papers are quoted by peers are usually an important criterion for the quality of this paper to evaluate the quality of this paper. The more the number of thesis is quoted, the greater the influence of this paper. In this indicator, American research accounts for 24.9%, ranking second. The British research ranked third with 5.5%.

According to the British "Guardian" report on Wednesday, the number of scientific papers published by China each year reached 4071.81 million, far exceeding the 2934.34 million published by the United States.

The research fields with a particularly high number of papers in China include materials science, chemistry, engineering, and mathematics, while the leading areas of the United States published the number of papers include clinical medicine, basic life sciences, and physics.

The Guardian pointed out that the research report published by the Japan Institute is quite consistent with the results of another research report published earlier this year. It surpassed the United States as early as 2019.

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