The country’s output in quality health research is going from strength to strength, but can it overcome questions about the integrity of its publishing practices? (1 Oct 2025) Increasing evidence suggests that the geographical centre of medical research might be moving, as the amount and quality of research produced by China’s research hospitals rises, and…
Global higher education policies are often underpinned by bibliometric performance metrics. While these targets ostensibly aim at raising the quality of academic work, Aikerim Bektemirova argues in authoritarian states they can be deployed to discipline and constrain academic freedom. (29 Aug 2025) Across the world, academic metrics (journal impact factors, citation indexes and university rankings)…
(10 Jul 2025) China is outpacing the rest of the world in artificial intelligence research at a time when AI is becoming a “strategic asset” akin to energy or military capability, according to a report from research technology company Digital Science. The report – entitled DeepSeek and the New Geopolitics of AI: China’s ascent to research…
(16 Jun 2025) A new study published in the Journal of Data and Information Science identifies significant uncertainty among researchers in China regarding ethical publishing practices, particularly when third-party manuscript services are involved. The findings are based on a joint survey conducted by Taylor & Francis and the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), covering…
(8 Apr 2025) The Trump administration has blocked access to multiple data repositories maintained by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for researchers in several countries, including a cancer statistics database used heavily by scientists in China. The ban is effective April 4 and applies to institutions in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Russia, Iran, North…
(6 May 2025) The Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), scheduled for 18–22 June 2025, will introduce a new academic and digital publishing hub alongside the launch of the inaugural STM APAC Conference, signaling a major expansion in its focus on scholarly communication. This initiative, supported by over 200 global libraries and research institutions, will coincide with…
(15 Apr 2025) The organization responsible for allocating basic research funding in China has issued misconduct findings against 26 researchers for violations ranging from breach of confidentiality to image manipulation, plagiarism, and buying and selling authorship. The National Natural Science Foundation of China, or NSFC, released the results of 15 misconduct investigations on April 11. Several of…
(4 Apr 2025) China is perhaps the world’s new science superpower in terms of gross spending on research and development, a new Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report reveals. Meanwhile, research is under enormous pressure in two other research giants, America and Europe, says Sir Peter Gluckman, president of the International Science…
(19 Mar 2025) The CAS Journal Ranking Team releases Early Warning Journal List 2025(EWL)! The 2025 edition of the EWL targets two key concerns: 1) Academic misconduct that jeopardizes the integrity of the scientific research ecosystem, including practices like Citation Manipulation and operation of Paper Mills; 2) Inappropriate actions that hinder the global dissemination of specific…
The arrival of the Year of the Snake coincides with an upturn in sales impact from Web novels in China’s fiction lists. (29 Jan 2025) Our associates at Beijing OpenBook tell us that the impact of Web novels is being felt even more than before in the Chinese market, a newly influential dynamic tracked…