China already passed the US in number of scientific articles published per year(twitter.com)
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China already passed the US in number of scientific articles published per year
https://twitter.com/luismbat/status/1438627660306001922
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The per capita difference is revealing… As the most populous country in the world and a big investor in science, this doesn’t really surprise me.
The tweet seems like sinophobic garbage, sorting by absolute numbers instead of per capita. Of course a country with four times the population is going to have more papers. Sort by per capita and see where the numbers come out.
Sinophobic? How? I took it as a matter-of-fact statement, not some kind of fearful revelation or any kind of fear-mongering.
Also vastly more retractions per year: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/world/asia/china-science-...