"A bad reputation and cultural ignorance are probably responsible" It's neither of these. A large percentage of Chinese research papers are fake and/or can't b

"A bad reputation and cultural ignorance are probably responsible" It's neither of these. A large percentage of Chinese research papers are fake and/or can't be reproduced. "a ranking of countries by number of papers published in a set of respected journals." Total number of papers published is almost as good as measuring a developer by the lines of code produced.