China ranks first in the world in this indicator!, First time surpassing the United States
On September 20th, the China Institute of Science and Technology Information released the "2023 China Science and Technology Paper Statistics Report", which showed that in 2022, China had published 16349 papers in the most influential journals in various disciplines, accounting for 30.3% of the world's total, surpassing the United States for the first time and ranking first in the world.
It is understood that the journal with the highest impact factor among various disciplines can be regarded as the most influential journal among all disciplines in the world. In 2022, there are a total of 159 most influential journals in 178 academic fields.
As of July 2023, China has a total of 1929 hot topic papers, accounting for 45.9% of the world's total, an increase of 6.7% compared to the 2022 statistics. The world ranking remains first, while the United States ranks second; The number of highly cited articles in China is 57900, accounting for 30.8% of the world's total, and the world ranking remains second.
Papers published in the past two years that have received a large number of citations in the past two months and have been cited in the top 1 ‰ of the discipline are called hot topic papers. Papers from various disciplines that have been cited in the top 1% of the world from 2013 to 2023 are referred to as highly cited papers.
Meanwhile, according to the statistical analysis results of the first author and first unit, China has published 93600 high-level international journal papers, accounting for 26.9% of the world's total, with 649600 citations. Both the number of published papers and the number of citations are ranked first in the world.
It is worth noting that according to the number of citations in international papers, China ranks first in the world in six disciplines: agricultural science, chemistry, computer science, engineering technology, materials science, and mathematics, with the addition of new mathematics disciplines compared to the previous year.