China's science surge rolls on
October 2008
China has dramatically increased its output of scientific papers, while also seeing the citation impact of those papers steadily rise. The latest Science Watch analysis shows a nation rapidly securing prominence in world science.
When Science Watch last surveyed China research in 2004, the nation's annual output of Thomson Reuters-indexed papers still fell shy of Japan's 2003 total of 75,000+ papers. However China's rising trajectory in output intersected that of Japan in 2006 and soared past in 2007. In fact, among all nations, China ranked #2 by number of papers published during 2007, second only to the United States.
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