Analysis suggests China has passed US on one research measure OhioState
Findings showed Chinese research ranked as high as or higher than U.S. work in the top 1% of scientific studies in 2019. This work is considered the most notable published science., was done by three researchers: one from the United States, one from Europe and one from China. The measurement method used by the trio is different from what has traditionally been used—and they say it is more appropriate to the task.
"These are the works that are seen as being in the class of Nobel Prize winners, the very leading edge of science," Wagner said."The U.S. has tended to rank China's work as lower quality. This appears to have changed."are generally cited much more frequently than papers in other fields. For example, the top papers in virology are cited more often than the top papers in sociology.
But Wagner and her colleagues say weighting papers differently by scientific field makes no sense when you're comparing the research output of nations. The researchers used the Web of Science database, which provides comprehensive citation data for studies in a wide variety of scientific disciplines. Using their
But by 2016, that gap had closed considerably according to the field-normalized statistics: In that year, 1.88% of U.S. articles were in the top 1% and China was closing in with 1.12% in the highest ranks.