中國科技論文引用量世界領先

China ranked third worldwide in citations of science and technology papers by the country's researchers, a government think tank revealed last Wednesday.

一家政府智庫上週三披露稱，中國科學技術論文引用量位列世界第三。

Among the world's most-cited papers in the past decade, Chinese scientists contributed 16,900 papers, or 12.8 percent of the global share, said a report by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information under the Ministry of Science and Technology.

科技部科技信息研究所的一份報告稱，在過去的十年裏，中國是世界上論文引用量最大的國家之一，中國科學家共發表論文16900篇，佔世界總量12.8%。

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China ranked second in citations worldwide in eight fields including mathematics,medicine and agricultural sciences, according to the institute.

據機構表示，中國在包括數學醫藥和農業科學在內的八大領域中，論文世界引用量排名第二。

China moved up one spot in rank from the fourth in 2015, with just the United States and Britain ahead in the rankings this year, the institute said.

該機構稱，中國從2015年時的第四位上升了一位，今年的排名僅次於美國和英國。

A total of 296,800 scientific papers indexed by the internationally recognized Science Citation Index have come from Chinese researchers, the second-highest number worldwide, according to the report.

據報告指出，國際公認的科學文獻索引共有296800篇科學論文來自中國研究人員，在全世界位居第二名。