Top 20 nations in output and world share for the sciences and social sciences
2009 June 26
You can find hard data about social sciences publications and their impact.
This report was published at Time Higher Education
Anyway, even if China is second on quantity with 413,326 papers between 2004-2008 (USA off course is at first place with 1,513,797 and UK is third with 401,649). The impact of chinese papers is lower (–38) versus +46 (USA) and +36 (UK).
Interesting numbers. isn’t it?
