Papers on science and technology published overseas by Chinese scholars in 2001 totaled 64,526, jumping from the eighth highest in the world to sixth, figures released Tuesday show.
Those nations which published more papers were the United States, Japan, Britain, Germany and France.
The annual statistical work, undertaken by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, aims to count the number of published papers of Chinese science workers and the occurrences of citation by other scientists in their own works.
The statistics show that science papers published within China amounted to 203,229, increasing by 12.4 percent over the year 2000.
In 2001, the number of papers being cited totaled 18,358, increasing by 16.7 percent over 2000, while the incidence of citation increased by 23.8 percent to 38,827, according to the statistics.
(Xinhua News Agency December 11, 2002)
