(17 Sep 2026) Clarivate has named 22 researchers as its Citation Laureates for 2026, recognizing scientists and economists whose highly cited work it considers to be of “Nobel class”. The annual programme, run by Clarivate’s Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), uses publication and citation data from the Web of Science Core Collection alongside analysis to…
(13 Jul 2026) Springer Nature’s latest regional white paper, Open for impact: China’s gold open access boosting global innovation and supporting the Global South, shows that, by July 2025, nearly 40% of citations to China’s 2022 gold OA articles now come from outside China. The data in the study shows how open access (OA) is supporting…
(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…
(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…
(30 Jan 2024) Open access is built on the promise that more people are able to access and use research. Putting this to the test, Chun-Kai (Karl) Huang, Cameron Neylon and Lucy Montgomeryexplore where citations come from for 19 million research outputs and find that open access is indeed working as it is meant to – allowing more…
(29 Mar 2023) Chinese researchers are increasingly leading scientific research, yet their contributions are not fully recognized, notably by US researchers. Shumin Qiu, Claudia Steinwender and Pierre Azoulay discuss the reasons why articles written by Chinese academics receive significantly fewer citations from US researchers than those written by non-Chinese researchers. LSE blog has the full story here.
(16 Feb 2022) Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, has opened applications for The Eugene Garfield Award™, which recognizes early-career scientists working on innovative approaches in citation analysis. The award was launched in 2017 and has an unrestricted prize of $25,000. As a part of…