In the latest issue of Nature – one of the oldest and most prestigious scientific journals in the West – almost half of the published studies featured work by ethnic Chinese researchers.
Some researchers said the output reflected the rapid progress of China’s scientific work in recent years while others said more data was needed to determine if this was a trend.
Nature is a multidisciplinary publication founded in 1869 and based in London. On January 8, the weekly journal published 35 research papers, 17 of which had ethnic Chinese scientists as first or corresponding authors.
Among the papers, some were led by Chinese researchers working at overseas research institutes – such as Scripps Research and Ohio State University in the United States – and some were co-authored by Chinese scientists from domestic institutes and their international collaborators.
“This is not surprising,” said Deng Weiwei, a professor at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen.
He noted that Chinese researchers were now scattered across universities and research institutes worldwide, and articles by scientists from China’s top research institutes had appeared more frequently in top journals.
At SUSTech, for example, about one research paper was published in Nature every two weeks last year, Deng said.
Yin Zongjun, a researcher at Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in the eastern province of Jiangsu, said the trend had been apparent for a few years.
“This shows that the Chinese contribution to the top scientific journals is getting closer to that of the Americans,” Yin said, adding that China’s progress in recent years had been all-encompassing – from the economy to defence technology to science.
Three international journals – Cell, Nature and Science (CNS) – are widely regarded as the pinnacle of academic journals, and many researchers aspire to publish in them.
“The fact that the number of CNS articles by Chinese scientists has significantly increased indicates that the quality and level of their research has also improved dramatically,” said Cao Yu, a researcher with the school of life sciences at Westlake University in Zhejiang province in eastern China.
According to a report released in 2023 by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) under the Ministry of Science and Technology, China contributed nearly one-third of the academic papers published in the most influential international journals in 2022. It was the first time that China had overtaken the US to secure the top position globally.
ISTIC’s latest report in September 2024 showed that China maintained its lead in 2023. In 161 high-impact journals covering 178 disciplines worldwide, Chinese researchers published more than 14,000 papers, accounting for 27.7 per cent of the global total, ranking it first in the world.
Meanwhile, the latest Nature Index, published by Nature in June 2024, showed that seven out of the top 10 institutions for the calendar year 2023 – ranked according to their contributions to natural and health sciences journals – were from China.
According to the annual ratings list, China was the only leading country to increase its number of institutions in the top 100 ranking. In 2022, China had 31 institutions in the top 100; in 2023, it had 38. By comparison, the US had 38 institutions in the top 100 in 2022 and 35 in 2023.
But Sun Yutao, a professor at Dalian University of Technology’s school of economics and management, said that the high percentage of Chinese contributions could simply be a coincidence, and that more data was needed to judge whether it reflected a trend. In Nature’s previous issue, published on January 1, six of its 23 papers were led by ethnic Chinese scientists.
Sun also cautioned that the scientific merit of these papers needed to be scrutinised, and that it could not simply be assumed that “a high number of papers implies a high level of research”.
“Although China is already a global leader in many scientific indicators, such as the number of highly cited papers, the contribution of Chinese scientists is not yet particularly prominent in some aspects, including original scientific discoveries and the world’s most influential scientific awards,”.
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