Nature February 12, 2024 A Nature analysis reveals that since 2021 there have been more than 17,000 retractions with Chinese co-authors. The [Chinese] government launched the nationwide self-review in response to Hindawi, a London-based subsidiary of the publisher Wiley, retracting many papers by Chinese authors. A Nature analysis shows that last year, Hindawi issued more than 9,600 retractions, of which the vast majority — about 8,200 — had a co-author in China. Nearly 14,000 retraction notices, of which some three-quarters involved a Chinese co-author, were issued by all publishers in 2023. According to Nature’s analysis, which includes only English-language journals, […]
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Rate of scientific breakthroughs slowing over time: Study
Phys.org January 4, 2023 Recent decades have witnessed exponential growth in the volume of new scientific and technological knowledge, thereby creating conditions that should be ripe for major advances. Yet studies suggest that progress is slowing in several major fields. A team of researchers in the US (University of Minnesota, University of Arizona) analysed the claims of new scientific and technological knowledge at scale across six decades, using data on 45 million papers and 3.9 million patents from six large-scale datasets, together with a new quantitative metric that characterizes how papers and patents change networks of citations in science and technology. They […]
Study examines how many scientists a region needs to achieve dominance in a field
Phys.org December 29, 2022 The conditions for the emergence of a leading regional scientific environment are poorly understood. The existence of a critical mass of scientists is often assumed. An international team of researchers (Austria, the Netherlands, South Africa, USA – Santa Fe Institute) used a unique dataset of global scientific activity and researcher mobility over several decades to show empirical evidence in three scientific areas (semiconductor research, embryonic stem cells, and Internet research) that the process of scientific knowledge accumulation was remarkably general and applied to practically all regions. Scale-free growth patterns suggested that regions that move early into […]