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China publishes huge amounts of scientific research. Now it must make more of it worth reading, says Changhui Peng.

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Changhui Peng is at the College of Forestry of Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China, and the Institute of Environmental Sciences of the University of Quebec at Montreal in Canada.

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Peng, C. Focus on quality, not just quantity. Nature 475, 267 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/475267a

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