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This is funny because the economist got done calling out China for science paper fraud a few months ago: https://www.economist.com/china/2024/02/22/why-fake-re

This is funny because the economist got done calling out China for science paper fraud a few months ago: https://www.economist.com/china/2024/02/22/why-fake-research-is-rampant-in-china https://www.economist.com/china/2024/02/22/why-fake-research... And the guardian calling out the significant amount of papers redacted https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/03/the-situation-has-become-appalling-fake-scientific-papers-push-research-credibility-to-crisis-point https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/03/the-situatio... Until Chinese academia comes down hard on the researchers who do this, they'll be a power house that no one trusts which is as bad as not being a power house at all .

zubiaur 2y ago
The article does mentions it as a problem, more so for second and lower tier universities.
pclmulqdq 2y ago
Several big IEEE conferences have regional "affirmative action" for papers, and you used to be able to tell which APAC papers took advantage of this. The research quality has been rising fast in China (and IMO dropping in the west). They labs in China often do write a lot of papers, though, and they always cite their own work and the work of sister labs. People around the world do this, but it's much tighter in China than other parts of the world. They may have found that Chinese research papers (on engineering topics) are much higher "impact" for that reason.