{"id":75421,"date":"2018-01-19T20:42:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T04:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/china-publishes-more-scientific-articles-than-the-u-s"},"modified":"2018-01-19T20:42:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T04:42:34","slug":"china-publishes-more-scientific-articles-than-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/china-publishes-more-scientific-articles-than-the-u-s","title":{"rendered":"China publishes more scientific articles than the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-publishes-more-scientific-articles-than-the-u-s.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new analysis of global science and engineering competence shows that the United States is struggling to fight off an increasingly competitive China.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The numbers:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=244271\">According to the National Science Foundation<\/a>, China published over 426,000 research papers in 2016. America pumped out almost 409,000. If you consider the number of citations for those papers, a measure of the influence they have in the scientific community, America does better\u2014it placed third internationally, while China comes in fifth (Sweden and Switzerland took the top spots).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strengths elsewhere:<\/strong> The report does, however, note that America invests the most in R&amp;D, attracts the most venture capital, and awards the most advanced degrees compared with every other nation in the world.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/610023\/china-publishes-more-scientific-articles-than-the-us\/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-01-19&utm_campaign=Technology+Review\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/610023\/china-p...ogy+Review<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new analysis of global science and engineering competence shows that the United States is struggling to fight off an increasingly competitive China. The numbers: According to the National Science Foundation, China published over 426,000 research papers in 2016. America pumped out almost 409,000. If you consider the number of citations for those papers, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}