Posted on 06/09/2022 6:41:21 AM PDT by FarCenter
The number of scholars who declare affiliations in both China and the United States on research papers has dropped by more than 20% the past 3 years, an analysis conducted for Nature has found. That slump seems to be part of a pattern of waning US–China collaboration that is starting to show up in research databases. The number of papers that were collaborations between authors in the United States and China — the world’s largest research producers — also fell the first time last year.
These signs of falling collaboration are at least in part a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, scholars say, but also of political tensions. These include the effects of the United States’ controversial China Initiative, a policy supposed to prevent espionage that targeted many US academics for not disclosing some of their work or funding in China.
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The US government seems to be dropping its decades-long support for scientific collaboration with China just as some of China’s research is at a world-class level, says Deborah Seligsohn, a political scientist at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. “If the United States stops collaborating with China, we’re cutting off our access to a huge part of what’s going on in the scientific world,” she says.
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China’s national policies might also be affecting publication data, Lee adds: in 2020, for instance, the government said that there should be less focus on evaluating researchers by the volume of their work in international-journal databases, and more on the quality of their papers. They were also urged to consider publishing in Chinese journals. That might now be starting to feed through into data indexed in Scopus or Web of Science, which focus on English-language journals. Tang says it will be important to watch whether the falling collaboration patterns continue in the future.
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Good.
No real advance in science, but now they're making supercomputers.
China doesn’t need them they have Joey Xi much happy.
It’s about time these damn greedy universities wise up. And speaking of wising up, need to include defense contractors in this group too. Chinese students/employees will steal anything and transmit it back to China.
The universities are going to miss those Chinese grad students paying full tuition and the visiting post-docs that come with full funding from their home institutions.
However, China doesn’t need to send them anymore, since over three decades they have built their own universities and national labs. Enough trained scientists and engineers have returned home that they have the academic and research staff they need to take off from here. Plus, with the current hostilities, more Chinese faculty members will be going home.
Once Chinese researchers are publishing in Chinese, they will have the advantage of understanding both the global English academic literature and the largest mother tongue academic literature in Chinese.
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