Trends in Volume of Scientific Publication

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:


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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.


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