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> "when measured on “simple bibliometrics like productivity and citations, China has outperformed expectations”. She adds, however, that it still “significantly
by ftxbro 3y ago
> "when measured on “simple bibliometrics like productivity and citations, China has outperformed expectations”. She adds, however, that it still “significantly trails” behind other nations “in its capacity to absorb and apply knowledge”"
> "The thing that differentiates the United States from China is the depth of US capability across the board, whatever the field might be."
these sound like some cope
- peteradio 3y agoLooking at high level numbers like citations is the cope. For instance, an individual researcher can have very high h-index scores while it would give no indication the relative merit of another researcher who has h-index score 1/100 of the original. The numbers are so context dependent as to become meaningless in almost all comparisons.