[Sigmetrics] Chinese versus US article output?

[Jonathan Adams]

It also depends on how you interpret and use the data. On articles and
reviews indexed in Thomson Reuters *Web of Science* for 2014, China has
maybe 250,000 documents to the USA with around 400,000. Run that back to
1981 and the ratio is more like 100:1 while in 2000 the ratio was 10:1 so
the China trajectory is pretty clear (http://sciencewatch.com/grr/china).
Of course, the commercial data sources draw on different sets of journals
and don't use all other documents. The indicative 'growth' of China's
research is also a switch from an applied, demand-led R&D base into one
that publishes increasingly in anglophone journals rather than domestic
reports.

On 30 September 2015 at 20:59, David Wojick <dwojick at craigellachie.us>
wrote:

> Here is another way of looking at it. According to SCImago country
> rankings for 2014, the US output was 494,790 citable items while China had
> 438,601 or 89% of the US amount. See http://scimagojr.com/index.php
> Select country rankings, then 2014, then refresh.
>
> China's output has been growing rapidly for the last decade, so it looks
> like it could pass the US in just 2 or 3 years.
>
> David
>
> David Wojick, Ph.D.
> http://insidepublicaccess.com/
>
> At 10:40 AM 9/28/2015, you wrote:
>
> How does the present Chinese journal article output compare to the US? I
> recall discussions here some time ago about the Chinese output catching up
> with the US. Has it done so? Is it still growing?
>
> David
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