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China's Scientific Publications During the Past 10 Years: Papers, Citations and Citations per Paper
 
Rank       Field Papers Citations Citations
Per Paper
1 CHEMISTRY 132,351 629,724 4.76
2 PHYSICS 88,979 389,386 4.38
3 CLINICAL MEDICINE 36,737 259,523 7.06
4 MATERIALS SCIENCE 62,746 205,225 3.27
5 ENGINEERING 55,222 153,481 2.78
6 BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY 20,757 111,700 5.38
7 GEOSCIENCES 17,049 90,833 5.33
8 PLANT & ANIMAL SCIENCE 18,668 71,339 3.82
9 MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & GENETICS 6,533 59,555 9.12
10 ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY 10,726 48,567 4.53
11 MATHEMATICS 20,985 45,458 2.17
12 NEUROSCIENCE & BEHAVIOR 5,114 40,104 7.84
13 PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY 7,698 35,887 4.66
14 SPACE SCIENCE 5,113 28,806 5.63
15 MICROBIOLOGY 4,100 27,862 6.8
16 COMPUTER SCIENCE 17,931 25,787 1.44
17 AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES 4,834 17,224 3.56
18 IMMUNOLOGY 2,224 14,438 6.49
19 SOCIAL SCIENCES, GENERAL 4,527 12,476 2.76
20 PSYCHIATRY/PSYCHOLOGY 2,213 12,375 5.59
21 ECONOMICS & BUSINESS 3,072 11,845 3.86
22 MULTIDISCIPLINARY 1,700 3,273 1.93

 
Source: Essential Science Indicators, 1 August 2008.
Note: The table is covering a 10-year and 4 month period since 30 April 1998

The most productive scientific discipline in China is chemistry, where researchers published more than 132 thousand papers that received more than 629 thousand citations. However, the most cited discipline was molecular biology and biochemistry with a citation index of 9.12. Clearly, China is trying to become a world leader in life sciences that are critical for the new bio-technologies of the 21st century.

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