CHINA IS NOW THE WORLD'S LEADING SCIENTIFIC POWER

Chinese researcher checking sperms of top Western scientists

Thanks to rampant woke culture and the denigration of excellence and weaponised autism, it looks like the West has started to lose it's once unassailable lead in the sciences, according to an article in The Economist.

Using a system of metrics to create objective results, the anonymous writers concluded that China was now the leading scientific superpower, overtaking the European Union and the United States, when viewed separately:

"One way to measure the quality of a country’s scientific research is to tally the number of high-impact papers produced each year—that is, publications that are cited most often by other scientists in their own, later work. In 2003 America produced 20 times more of these high-impact papers than China, according to data from Clarivate, a science analytics company (see chart 1). By 2013 America produced about four times the number of top papers and, in the most recent release of data, which examines papers from 2022, China had surpassed both America and the entire European Union (eu).

Metrics based on citations can be gamed, of course. Scientists can, and do, find ways to boost the number of times their paper is mentioned in other studies, and a recent working paper, by Qui Shumin, Claudia Steinwender and Pierre Azoulay, three economists, argues that Chinese researchers cite their compatriots far more than Western researchers do theirs. But China now leads the world on other benchmarks that are less prone to being gamed. It tops the Nature Index, created by the publisher of the same name, which counts the contributions to articles that appear in a set of prestigious journals. To be selected for publication, papers must be approved by a panel of peer reviewers who assess the study’s quality, novelty and potential for impact. When the index was first launched, in 2014, China came second, but its contribution to eligible papers was less than a third of America’s. By 2023 China had reached the top spot."

The only consolation from this is that the United States and the EU combined is still well ahead of China, and even further ahead if you throw in Britain and Japan. But the trend is clear and the only threat to this ascendency is China's own plunging fertility rate.