China is on course to overtake the US in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013 - far earlier than expected.
That is the conclusion of a major new study by the Royal Society, the UK's national science academy.
The country that invented the compass, gunpowder, paper and printing is set for a globally important comeback.
An analysis of published research - one of the key measures of scientific effort - reveals an "especially striking" rise by Chinese science.
The study, Knowledge, Networks and Nations, charts the challenge to the traditional dominance of the United States, Europe and Japan.
The figures are based on the papers published in recognised international journals listed by the Scopus service of the publishers Elsevier.
In 1996, the first year of the analysis, the US published 292,513 papers - more than 10 times China's 25,474.
By 2008, the US total had increased very slightly to 316,317 while China's had surged more than seven-fold to 184,080.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12885271
Chinese science rules ok...
Chinese science rules ok...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Chinese science rules ok...
It's due to that Chinese arithmetic...
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
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Re: Chinese science rules ok...
Papers published? that's the criteria?
How about patents or designs to manufacture to generating profits as a criteria. Papers published just means someone who might be able to create things is too busy using a word processor.
How about patents or designs to manufacture to generating profits as a criteria. Papers published just means someone who might be able to create things is too busy using a word processor.