The USA still leads the world int he number of scientific papers
published per year. Germany and Japan were essentially tied
for second, for years. According to a recent report by
Thomspon-Reuters ISI, there is a new player at the table:
The report is
href="http://science.thomsonreuters.com/info/grr-china/">available
at Thomson Reuters, free registration required.
Note that this says nothing about quality; it is all about
quantity. (HT:
href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2009/11/china_leaps_to.html">Paul
Kedrosky) For a counterpoint, also see Kedrosky’s
post on
href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2009/11/chinas_empty_ci.html">China’s
empty city.