(25 Sep 2024) In recent years, China has become a world leader in a key measure of scientific impact: the number of academic papers produced by researchers there that are then widely cited by other scientists.
Now, two analyses identify one factor that might be helping boost these citations: An unusually high number is coming from scholars also based in China. One study reports that more than half of citations to the top 10% of China’s highly cited papers come from the same nation’s academics. The second finds a similar trend—and suggests China’s global research ranking is lower than it at first appears.
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