China already passed the US in number of scientific articles published per year

Posted by eusebio on Thursday September 16, 2021 @06:19PM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/luismbat/status/1438627660306001922

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Re:China already passed the US in number of scientific artic... by superyellyfish on Thursday September 16, 2021 @06:26PM (#28558565)

The per capita difference is revealing… As the most populous country in the world and a big investor in science, this doesn’t really surprise me.

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Re:China already passed the US in number of scientific artic... by cratermoon on Thursday September 16, 2021 @06:37PM (#28558681)

The tweet seems like sinophobic garbage, sorting by absolute numbers instead of per capita. Of course a country with four times the population is going to have more papers. Sort by per capita and see where the numbers come out.

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Re:China already passed the US in number of scientific artic... by RattleyCooper on Thursday September 16, 2021 @07:40PM (#28559241)

Sinophobic? How? I took it as a matter-of-fact statement, not some kind of fearful revelation or any kind of fear-mongering.

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Re:China already passed the US in number of scientific artic... by zepto on Thursday September 16, 2021 @07:53PM (#28559355)

Also vastly more retractions per year: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/world/asia/china-science-...

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