Nine of the world’s top 10 research institutions are now Chinese.

The latest Nature Index rankings reveal an astonishing trend: nine of the world’s top 10 research institutions are now Chinese

To fully appreciate China’s meteoric rise, one must look back at the academic landscape a decade ago. When the Nature Index Global rankings were first released in 2014, only eight Chinese universities made it into the top 100. Today, that number has more than quintupled, with 42 Chinese institutions now ranking among the world’s best

One of the most notable policy shifts has been the move away from publication-based evaluation metrics. Previously, Chinese academics were incentivized to publish as many papers as possible, often at the expense of quality. However, recent reforms have introduced a more rigorous peer-review system that prioritizes impactful and innovative research over sheer volume. This shift has resulted in a significant improvement in the credibility and global influence of Chinese scientific output.

  • @werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22•1 month ago

    Please, oh please do or do not research in Chinese. I’m too old to give a flying fuck. But it would be hilarious if suddenly the world had to learn Chinese to be able to use the research results.

    • @Damage@feddit.itEnglish
      5•1 month ago

      I’d like to learn Chinese (which one though?), but I’m afraid I never will. LLMs may help with translation, though.

      • @Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.mlEnglish
        9•1 month ago

        Mandarin is the most accessible and widely spoken, Cantonese is good if you want to spend a lot of time in the south. Good luck if you want to learn one of the hundreds of other dialects, maybe make a friend from one of the places and have them help you.

    • @IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6•1 month ago

      Trump just scrapped the commie department of education so free market capitalism can once again save Americs. Education will trickle down from above.

  • BrightCandleEnglish
    15•1 month ago

    One of the issues here is that being a Chinese paper in any field is still the most correlated with the paper being faked in some way. So while china is producing a lot of science and good science its also the world leader in garbage fake science too and it needs to get a handle on the problem.

    • @Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      2•1 month ago

      i rarely hear good research papers out of china, unless its something like botany, or plants,animals that require cooperation with other universities all over the globe. plants because china has a megadivesity of flowers specifically.

      • @Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        2•1 month ago

        not at the rate of china, and fake papers are usually scrutinized more in the us, and they do produce alot of low quality papers, mainly its because PHDs have a hard time getitng jobs, so they have to write dozens of papers before even being noticed by a employer, most of the time its academic employers. it will be hard to get past some scrutiniy, since your papers have to get published on a well respected journal eventually, like nature,etc. other journals journal of new england medicine, lancet, science journal.

  • Dr. MooseEnglish
    3•1 month ago

    Hope this reduces cheating in Chinese scientific literature because China overtaking US academia is a pretty bad sign when to comes to trust academia otherwise.

  • @Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
    2•1 month ago

    in the us they have same problem, as publishing too many low-quality papers as well. especially when they are trying to get jobs in academia, when i went to one of those “talks, orientation” one researcher at to write 40+papers before even looked at by a university employer. they care more about quantity over quality, basically they see the amount you have written equal to quality of research.(not a PHD myself), also that many in the phd are abandoing thier fields, because of the above issues, plus job prospects. why chinese research isnt trusted, was probably because of thier quality of reasearch, plus they fudge thier results alot too, and they have issue of industrial and research espionage going on blatantly.