China News Agency, Beijing, April 30 (Reporter Sun Zifa) Springer Nature's annual list of the 2020 Nature Index released on the 30th shows that China's contribution to scientific research output increased by 63.5% from 2015 to 2019, which is an increase The fastest country.
The annual list of the Natural Index aims to show the high-quality scientific research output of different countries and scientific research institutions in the field of natural sciences. The latest list shows that the United States is still the first and China is the second. The gap between the two is constantly narrowing, Germany, the United Kingdom , Japan, France, Canada, Switzerland, South Korea and Australia ranked third to tenth.
As in previous years, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harvard University, and the Max Planck Society in Germany still rank among the top three in terms of institutional output. The French National Research Center, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Helmholtz National Research Center China, the University of Science and Technology of China, Oxford University and Peking University ranked fourth to tenth. Among them, the adjusted contribution share of the University of Science and Technology of China increased by 25.6%, which greatly increased its position compared with previous years. To the eighth place.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences ranks first among institutions, and its contribution share is twice that of Harvard University, accounting for 2.8% of the total share of the natural index, and its output in the three subject areas of chemistry, physics, earth and environmental science ranks first in the world. Harvard ’s life science research output ranks first in the world, and the school is one of the institutions with the largest academic ranking spans-its life sciences rank first and chemistry ranks 33rd.
The 2020 Natural Index annual list also adds institutions' "Rising Star" list, tracking the growth of high-quality scientific research output from institutions from 2015 to 2019. The list shows that the top 44 institutions of "Rising Star" all come from China, among which the top ten fastest increases are the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Tsinghua University, Sun Yat-sen University, Sichuan University, Southern University of Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Wuhan University, of which, the adjusted contribution share of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences increased by 242%, winning the top of the increase.
David Swinbanks, the founder of the Natural Index, said that the annual list of the Natural Index shows that large well-known institutions that have received good funding continue to have strong performance in high-quality scientific research output in the natural sciences. "But we also see that smaller, younger institutions are also very likely to rise rapidly, keeping pace with those that are more senior and have a stronger position." (Finish)