Figure 4
A resource distribution model of a country and the journal publication criteria for Nature and Science (black long-dashed line), Nature’s sister journals (dark grey dashed-dotted line), and other journals in Nature Index (grey dashed line). (A) The rise of China is denoted by the arrow. (B) Resource distribution of country X (e.g. USA and Germany) whose rC,ave remains low and does not reshape its original distribution. Our analysis indicates that the publication criteria of Nature and Science could be lower for the two countries. (C) Resource distribution of country Y (e.g. Singapore or Australia) whose rC,ave > 0.5 and has reshaped the distribution. Here the emigrated Chinese and domestic students are denoted by the orange and blue figures, respectively.
