But quantity is being favoured over quality, experts say.
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07 February 2014
This story originally said that the number of Chinese research articles being cited by scientists outside the country had fallen. In fact, it is the share of Chinese research articles cited by scientists outside the country has fallen over the past two decades. The text has been corrected to reflect this.
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Morrison, J. China becomes world’s third-largest producer of research articles. Nature (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2014.14684
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