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SenorToenails wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

China is on course to overtake the US in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013 - far earlier than expected.

That is the conclusion of a major new study by the Royal Society, the UK's national science academy.

The country that invented the compass, gunpowder, paper and printing is set for a globally important comeback.

An analysis of published research - one of the key measures of scientific effort - reveals an "especially striking" rise by Chinese science.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12885271

I blame rap music and offshoring about evenly.

Quantity != Quality

How many of those papers published in China are cited?  How many are actually interesting?  Or vaguely important?

Few Chinese scientists would be surprised to hear that many of the country's scientific journals are filled with incremental work, read by virtually no one and riddled with plagiarism.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100915/ … 7261a.html

Approximately one-third of the roughly 5,000 predominantly Chinese-language journals are 'campus journals', existing only so that graduate students and professors can accumulate the publications necessary for career advancement, according to one senior publisher.

Now THAT is just fucking lazy!  And surprise, 31% of those articles are products of plaigarism!

Most Chinese journals make their money through funding from their host institutions, and by charging authors per-page publishing fees. "Most are never cited. Who knows if they're even really published. They're ghosts," says one publisher, who declined to be named. Wu Haiyun, a cardiologist at the Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing, says that only 5–10% of these journals are worth saving, and the rest are "information pollution".

"Information pollution"...lol

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

bangkok.