""But the potential for China to match American output in terms of sheer numbers in the near to medium term is clear."" "However the report points out that a g

""But the potential for China to match American output in terms of sheer numbers in the near to medium term is clear."" "However the report points out that a growing volume of research publications does not necessarily mean in increase in quality." "A sociologist originally from Shanghai, Dr Cao told the BBC: "There are many millions of graduates but they are mandated to publish so the numbers are high. "It will take many years for some of the research to catch up to Western standards."" China has a quality issue in plagiarism (sometimes (many would argue)) in publishing / pushing and borrowing works or undiclosing proper citations for previous studies. Quality issues will hold back China, which is more an institution / systemic top-down problem (several HN discussions on this). http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1732000 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1732000 http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=china+plagarism+studies#hl=en&sa=X&ei=2n6RTefyL4_WtQOtvriyDg&ved=0CBkQvwUoAQ&q=china+plagiarism+studies&spell=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=a445e974b90b3339 http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#3...