Phys.org March 8, 2022
The top-1% most-highly-cited articles are watched closely as the vanguards of the sciences.
However, this finding contrasts with repeated reports of Western agencies that the quality of China’s output in science is lagging other advanced nations, even as it has caught up in numbers of articles. An international team of researchers (USA -Ohio State University, China, the Netherlands) used field normalizations, a new measurement method, which classify source journals by discipline. Classifications can be used for the decomposition, but not for the normalization. When the data is thus decomposed, the USA ranks ahead of China in biomedical fields such as virology. Although the number of papers is smaller, China outperforms the US in the field of Business and Finance…read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLEÂ
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