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China must boost its global science impact, study finds
[BEIJING] China's international science influence is still weak, even though its investment in science has rapidly increased in recent years, a report has found.
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The Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) evaluated the changing 'science power' and global influence of 19 major countries — including China, India, the United Kingdom and the United States — since 2002.
The number of science papers, patents, citations and science awards, amongst other indices, were used to evaluate a country's science power — a country's continued investment in basic and applied research, and the results generated.
China's science power ranked fourth in 2006, up from seventh place in 2002. And in terms of investment in research China ranked third (after the United States and Japan).
But the country's global science influence — measured by criteria including the number of citations in international journals, leading international awards, and membership of prestigious science academies — has not matched its science power, researchers found. China was ranked just thirteenth out of the 19 countries.
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