[Eurchap] Fwd. : SciDevNet "China ranks second in S&T publicationrates"

Mon Nov 19 16:34:50 EST 2007

  	    China	     USA	     UK	 Germany	 France
Japan	     EU-25	
1993	 1.69 	34.73 	8.89 	7.45 	5.98 	8.49 	35.04 	
1994	 1.70 	33.66 	8.97 	7.54 	5.99 	8.57 	35.90 	
1995	 2.05 	33.54 	8.88 	7.62 	6.09 	8.65 	36.21 	
1996	 2.31 	32.29 	9.02 	7.93 	6.18 	8.94 	37.08 	
1997	 2.66 	31.94 	8.73 	8.32 	6.31 	8.98 	37.60 	
1998	 2.90 	31.63 	9.08 	8.82 	6.48 	9.42 	38.82 	
1999	 3.44 	31.24 	9.08 	8.67 	6.44 	9.52 	38.68 	
2000	 3.89 	30.93 	9.22 	8.69 	6.31 	9.49 	38.67 	
2001	 4.30 	31.01 	8.90 	8.68 	6.33 	9.52 	38.77 	
2002	 4.98 	30.75 	8.60 	8.50 	6.10 	9.43 	38.16 	
2003	 5.51 	30.68 	8.46 	8.35 	6.10 	9.40 	38.02 	
2004	 6.52 	30.48 	8.33 	8.14 	5.84 	8.84 	37.59 	
2005	 7.42 	29.65 	7.88 	7.88 	5.67 	8.21 	37.04 	
2006	 8.42 	29.50 	7.84 	7.72 	5.56 	7.82 	37.05 	

Loet Leydesdorff & Caroline Wagner, Is the United States
<http://www.leydesdorff.net/us_science/index.htm> losing ground in science?
A global perspective on the world science system (updated for 2006),
Scientometrics (forthcoming). <pdf-version
<http://www.leydesdorff.net/US_Science/US_Science.pdf> > 

Abstract

Based on the Science Citation Index-Expanded web-version, the USA is still
by far the strongest nation in terms of scientific performance. Its relative
decline in percentage share of publications is largely due to the emergence
of China and other Asian nations. In 2006, China has become the second
largest nation in terms of the number of publications within this database.
In terms of citations, the competitive advantage of the American "domestic
market" is diminished, while the European Union (EU) is profiting more from
the enlargement of the database over time than the US. However, the USA is
still outperforming all other countries in terms of highly cited papers and
citation/publication ratios, and it is more successful than the EU in
coordinating its research efforts in strategic priority areas like
nanotechnology. In this field, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has
become second largest nation in both numbers of papers published and
citations behind the USA. 

The paper was also presented at the 11th International Conference of
Scientometrics and Informetrics, D. Torres-Salinas & H. Moed (Eds.), CSIC,
Madrid, 21-25 June 2007.

Best wishes,  Loet
________________________________

Loet Leydesdorff
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR),
Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam.
Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681
loet at leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/

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> > 19 November 2007
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> > China ranks second in S&T publication rates
> > *
> > *Chinese research output has increased dramatically
> > Jia Hepeng
> > 16 November 2007
> > Source: SciDev.Net
> >
> > [BEIJING] China overtook Japan and the United Kingdom to
> become the world's second largest producer of scientific
> research papers in 2006, second only the United States.
> >
> > The Institute of Science and Technology Information of
> China (ISTIC) released their annual science and technology
> (S&T) paper statistics yesterday (15 November).
> >
> > Chinese scientists published 172,000 papers in major
> international journals and meetings in 2006, accounting for
> 8.4 per cent of the world's total.
> >
> > "The situation represents the rapid increase in S&T
> [activity]," said Wu Yishan, general engineer of ISTIC, at
> the conference.
> >
> > Cited papers first-authored by Chinese scientists - an
> important indicator of scientific creativity - increased by
> 25.3 per cent in 2006, and the number of times they were
> cited increased 28.3 per cent. However, China remains
> thirteenth in terms of total citation numbers.
> >
> > The ISTIC statistics show that among China's papers indexed
> by the Science Citation Index, the percentage of
> international co-authored papers decreased by three per cent.
> >
> > "These [increased citations and reduced co-authorship]
> might represent the improved independent innovation capacity
> of Chinese scientists," said Wu.
> >
> > Chinese papers published in international academic meetings
> increased by 15.8 per cent in 2006, despite the world's total
> decreasing by nine per cent during that same period. This
> suggests that Chinese scientists are increasingly cooperating
> with foreign scientists.
> >
> > "[More meeting proceedings] indicate Chinese scientists are
> more involved in international academic exchanges," says Wu.
> >
> > Yan Jingxia, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Science and
> Technology Journal Research, says that while increased S&T
> activity is the basic factor in stimulating publication of
> papers, increasing the chances of research papers being cited
> with better designed keywords and citing more studies in high
> profile topics also helps.
> > "In a sense, these skills represent that Chinese scientists
> have been better engaged in the international academic
> circles," he told SciDev.Net.
>
>
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