在这四个科学领域我国一马当先︱China leads world in 4 scientific fields

China is leading the world in four scientific fields in terms of the total number of citations generated by the country's international academic papers published over the past decade, according to annual reports published on Monday by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, an organization affiliated with the Ministry of Science and Technology.

周一，国家科技部直属的中国科学技术信息研究所，发布了2021年度中国科技论文统计报告。报告表明，按国际论文被引用次数统计，中国在四个领域排在世界第一位。

These four fields are materials science, chemistry, engineering technology and computer science, with computer science being added to the list this year, the reports said. China also holds second place in 10 other fields, including agricultural science, biology and biochemistry, and environmental and ecological sciences.

这四个领域分别是材料科学、化学、工程技术与计算机科学，比上年度增加了一个领域“计算机科学”。此外，中国在农业科学、生物与生物化学、环境与生态学等十个领域论文的被引用次数居世界第二位。

The data for the reports was collected from global scientific literature databases including the Science Citation Index, Scopus and Ei Compendex.

报告数据来自全球的科学文献数据库，包括SCI数据库（科学引文索引）、Scopus数据库和Ei（工程索引）数据库等在内。

Academic citation is one of the key indicators of a paper's quality and influence, and a country's total number of citations in a scientific field is commonly seen as a reflection of its overall research capability in that discipline.

论文引用次数是衡量论文质量和影响力的关键指标，一个国家在某一科学领域的论文引用次数的总数，往往反映出国内该学科整体研究能力。

Last year, China published 1,833 research papers and articles in 15 of the world's top scientific publications, includingNature,Science andCell. This feat placed China two spots higher on the ranking than 2019, reaching second place last year behind the United States.

2020年，中国在《自然》、《科学》和《细胞》等15种世界顶级科学期刊上发表了1833篇学术论文和述评文章，仅次于位列第一的美国，比2019年上升两位。

Zhao Zhiyun, director of the institute, said these achievements meant China's scientific literature has made noticeable progress in producing an increasing number of high-quality papers with global influence.

中信所党委书记兼所长赵志耘介绍称，这些成就表明，国内的科学期刊学术影响水平有了明显的提升，产出了越来越多具有国际影响力的高质量论文。

"We hope our reports can provide timely insights for science workers, administrators and policymakers to identify the latest trend in China's scientific literature and publication sector," she said.

她表示，“希望统计报告能为激发科学工作者、管理者和决策者的洞见，确定中国科学期刊及出版行业的最新趋势。”

Experts said that China climbed in the global ranking partly due to Chinese scientists publishing a large quantity of papers regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as co-authoring and publishing more papers with international peers.

专家介绍称，中国的世界排名有所提升，一部分是因为国内科研人员发表了大量关于新冠疫情的论文，一方面则是国际合著论文数量有所增长。

Among them, Huang Chaolin, president of Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, published a paper in January last year in the journalThe Lancet that described the clinical features of patients infected with the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei province. It had been cited over 13,000 times as of September, Zhao said.

2020年1月，武汉市金银潭医院院长黄朝林在《柳叶刀》杂志上发表了一篇论文，描述武汉市感染新冠病毒患者的临床特征。赵志耘介绍称，截至9月，该论文已被引13000余次。

Last year, Chinese scientists co-wrote around 144,500 scientific papers, 14,400 more than in 2019, with collaborators from 169 countries and regions. China's total number of co-authored papers had increased by 11.1 percent in 2020 compared with the previous year, with the US being China's biggest partner in scientific literature.

2020年，国内科学家与来自169个国家（地区）的科研人员合著论文约14.45万篇，比2019年增加了1.44万篇，增长了11.1%。其中，美国是中国科学文献的最大合作伙伴。

China also published 485 megacollaboration scientific papers last year, each involving at least 100 scientists and 50 research institutions, in fields such as particle physics, astrophysics and nuclear physics.

同年我国作者参与发表的论文中，作者数超过100人且合作机构数大于50个的论文有 485篇，涉及的主题包括粒子与场物理、天文与天体物理、核物理研究等。

Guo Tiecheng, deputy director of the institute, said that from 2011 to October, China had published over 3.36 million international scientific papers, and these papers had been cited over 43.32 million times within that period. The US remains the world's top producer of scientific papers and has the largest number of citations.

中信所副所长郭铁成介绍称，2011年至2021年10月，中国学者发表了336万多篇国际科学论文，在此期间被引用次数超4332万次，而美国仍是世界上最大的科学论文生产国，引文数量也最多。

However, China's average number of citations per paper is around 12.8 within the 10-year period, which is lower than the global average of 13.6, Guo said.

但郭铁成也指出，在这10年内，中国每篇论文的平均引用次数约为12.8次，仍低于全球平均引用次数13.6次。

citation

英 [saɪˈteɪʃn]；美[saɪˈteɪʃn]

n. 引用；引文；（被）引用，引证

megacollaboration

英 [ˈmeɡə kəˌlæbəˈreɪʃn]；美[ˈmeɡə kəˌlæbəˈreɪʃn]

n. 大型合作（项目）

astrophysics

英 [ˌæstrəʊˈfɪzɪks]；美[ˌæstroʊˈfɪzɪks]

n. 天体物理（学）；天文物理（学）

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