CAS, JRC expand scientific cooperation - Vladimír Šucha, Director of Joint Research Centre (JRC), and Professor Bai Chunli, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), signed a research framework arrangement on June 2 at EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium (CAS Newsletter).
Space science joint fund established - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China signed an agreement on a joint fund for space science and satellite research on May 23 in Beijing (CAS Newsletter).
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Nature Index 2017 China - Supplment to Nature. Free full access to articles about the Chinese research system:
- A close look at China's rise - As China continues to increase its global share of research papers, it is worth remembering that publication numbers are just one indicator that a country's science is thriving.
- Inter-city connections - The Nature Index tracks collaborations by examining the author affiliations on papers published in top journals.
- Comment: Programmed to fulfill global ambitions - To further enhance the capacity, status and global competitiveness of China's higher education system, in 2015 the government announced the Developing World-Class Universities and First-Class Disciplines project, known as World Class 2.0.
- Meet the power players - Organic polymer solar cells are set to revolutionize photovoltaic technology. Five of the world's leaders in the field are at the same institution.
- Comment: Transparency is a growth industry - A fierce public debate over the safety of genetically modified food has put pressure on Chinese researchers to engage with the public about their work.
- Onward and upward - China's total number and global share of articles included in the Nature Index has increased since 2012. This upward trend corresponds with data from the larger Web of Science (WoS) database. The country's global share of articles, as well as those that are highly-cited, more than doubled between 2005 and 2015.
- Close range - Some of China's many cities have scientific expertise that complement each other, contributing to a rich and varied research environment.
- China's blue-chip future - The country publishes more articles in materials science than any other nation, but to reap the economic benefits it needs to apply this research.
- Keeping a lid on open science - Efforts to promote and enforce shared research have made progress in China, but there is much room for improvement.
- The value of nostalgia in a land of upheaval - Psychology is an increasingly relevant discipline as the destabilizing effects of rapid social change take hold in China.
- China’s close connections - Patterns of domestic collaboration in mainland China captured by the Nature Index.
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