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“More than everyone else together” is meaningless without considering the relevant population sizes (in this case, the relevant population is “number of researc
by danielheath 3y ago
“More than everyone else together” is meaningless without considering the relevant population sizes (in this case, the relevant population is “number of researchers producing papers”).
If China has half the worlds academics-writing-papers, one would _expect_ them to be responsible for half the fabricated ones.
- bloppe 3y agoChinese researchers [1] publish fewer total articles in Nature than American ones [2]. It's just one journal, with an admittedly western-leaning audience, but that's what the QZ article focuses on. It does include the caveat that it's possible that translation problems played a bigger role in the Chinese retractions than they did for other countries' retractions, although it would be surprising if that were the only cause of such a widespread problem. [1]: https://www.nature.com/nature-index/country-outputs/China https://www.nature.com/nature-index/country-outputs/China [2]: https://www.nature.com/nature-index/country-outputs/United%20States%20of%20America%20%28USA%29 https://www.nature.com/nature-index/country-outputs/United%2...