China’s exponential growth in nanotechnology
SEP 22, 2006
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.020461
Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) : A paper by Ping Zhou and Loet Leydesdorff suggests that China is rapidly developing research expertise in nanotechnology. Six years ago, US-based scientists published 50% of the papers in the journal Nanotechnology and China accounted for zero. Today 25% of papers in the journal are from US-based scientists and 15% from China. Zhou and Leydesdorff report that between 1999 and 2005, for 85 journals in the fields of chemistry, physics and material sciences that are relevant to nanotechnology, the number of papers published by China rose exponentially to 8.34%, while papers published by other countries either remained steady or declined. China’s overall world share in science journals is 6.52%, suggesting that China is aiming to be at the forefront of research into nanotechnology.
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