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Counting papers in top journals isn’t a great measure. While top journals do have high standards, not all papers are equal. I got published in a Nature journa
by refurb 2y ago
Counting papers in top journals isn’t a great measure. While top journals do have high standards, not all papers are equal.
I got published in a Nature journal but my paper was not groundbreaking by any means. You have groundbreaking research and you have “we made a slight, but important modification to an existing technology”.
In my area of physical sciences, the big breakthroughs are still coming from the US and Europe.
- DiogenesKynikos 2y agoIs your impression more accurate and unbiased than what the numbers of papers say? For what it's worth, my impression is completely different from yours. A significant share of major findings are now coming from China.
- arp242 2y agoIt seems to me that: 1. Chinese researchers are catching up and increasingly producing good papers. and: 2. There is a lot of low-quality junk science spam coming out of China. Are entirely compatible. Both can be true at the same time. I don't really know about scientific papers, but the high number of Chinese patents is generally considered a fairly useless metric files mostly for "CV reasons" rather than representing any genuine invention (see e.g. [1]). But here too, "China is producing tons of trash patents" and "China is catching up on innovation" are entirely compatible. [1]: https://www.cigionline.org/articles/what-do-chinas-high-patent-numbers-really-mean/ https://www.cigionline.org/articles/what-do-chinas-high-pate...