Nature reports China has "overtaken the United States as the number one ranked country or territory for contributions to research articles published in the Nature Index group of high-quality natural-science journals", remaining at second place overall.[365]
Damn. I wonder if there's been any recent calls in the United States that would make higher education more accessible, which would allow for more scientific papers to be published. No? No calls for any of that? Oh well
I derive morbid satisfaction from the fact that the US is such a fucking asshole country that it's making itself the loser against China.
"look at how much theyre producing! too bad they are just Chinese idiots who don't know what they're producing."
what a brain twister they did there.
"unfortunately the oriental brainpan lacks the 3 knowledge bumps....."
One thing that China (and S. Korea) does is to pay researchers for completing peer reviews, so they have a more rigorous and prestigious peer review process. The US doesn't pay researchers for completing peer review, so it's seem as drudgery and a burden on academics. Obviously, one model is more conductive to achieving rigorous and high quality papers.
(Idk how the paid peer review process would impact Nature, since it's an English-language publisher.)
