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China surpasses US in tally of top scientists for the first time
While the number of leading scientists in America is falling, the number in China is only going up, according to new data.
China has overtaken the United States for the first time in the number of its high-level science and technology experts, according to a new report. For the purposes of the study, a “high-level science and technology talent” was defined as any researcher who had published influential papers in the world’s top journals. The team behind the report sampled more than 40,000 highly cited key papers published between 2020 and 2024 in 129 top international academic journals across a range of disciplines, then extracted information about the authors and collated the data.
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