NEW YORK, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) — For the primary time, China has come out on high within the variety of most cited papers, a key measure of analysis influence, the Science journal has not too long ago reported.
“The milestone provides fresh evidence that China’s scholarship, known for its burgeoning quantity, is catching up in quality as well,” the report stated, citing a Japanese institute.
For the brand new report, Japan’s National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) tallied the highest 1 % papers by way of citations, a rarified stratum inhabited by many Nobel laureates.
Using a technique referred to as “fractional counting,” NISTEP licensed that China accounted for 27.2 % of essentially the most cited papers revealed in 2018, 2019, and 2020, in contrast with 24.9 % for the United States.
China’s rising manufacturing of top-cited papers is “remarkable,” stated NISTEP, noting that twenty years in the past it solely ranked thirteenth within the fractional counting metric.