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China just overtook the US in scientific output for the first time
- nutcracker46 9y agoPerhaps in volume, but do not forget that China puts out vast quantities of fabricated or stolen work.
- montrose 9y agoI don't think this matters much, because the number of scholarly papers published in any field is determined by the number of people who need to publish papers to advance their careers, not the value of new ideas that need to be expressed. A country's share of the top n papers matters, but not their share of the total number of papers.