The Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China recently released its annual report, ‘Statistical Data of Chinese (Science & Technology) Papers 2011’. According to the report, about one-tenth of the science and technology papers included in the Science Citation Index came from China in 2010.
China reportedly produced 836,300 papers on science and technology between 2001 and Nov 1, 2011, and they together garnered 5.19 million citations. This gave the country the seventh highest citation rate in the world. It had the eighth highest rate in 2010.
This year, each Chinese paper on science and technology earned an average of 6.21 citations, thereby posting a 5.8 percent increase above what the papers had got the previous year. However, the country is still well below the 10.71 citations that papers throughout the world draw on average, says the report.
In the past decade, the citation rate for Chinese papers on science and technology has increased by 30 percent a year on average. The Science Citation Index, meanwhile, has increased by 19 percent a year on average.
Of all Chinese science and technology papers, those about chemistry, engineering and mathematics, material science and clinical medicine led to only 2.09 percent of the citations that were made in 2011. The percentage for such papers was similar to the year before.
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