caa a22 4500 445348747 CHVBK 20180317142837.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11192-011-0416-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11192-011-0416-8 Characteristics of research in China assessed with Essential Science Indicators [Elektronische Daten] [Hui-Zhen Fu, Kun-Yang Chuang, Ming-Huang Wang, Yuh-Shan Ho] To provide an overview of the characteristics of research in China, a bibliometric evaluation of highly cited papers with high-level representation was conducted during the period from 1999 to 2009 based on the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database. A comprehensive assessment covered overall performance, journals, subject categories, internationally collaborative countries, national inter-institutionally collaborative institutions, and most-cited papers in 22 scientific fields. China saw a strong growth in scientific publications in the last decade, to some extent due to increasing research and development expenditure. China has been more active in ESI fields of chemistry and physics, but more excellent in materials science, engineering and mathematics. Most publications were concerned with the common Science Citation Index subject categories of multidisciplinary chemistry, multidisciplinary materials and science, and physical chemistry. About one half China's ESC papers were internationally collaborative and the eight major industrialized countries (the USA, Germany, the UK, Japan, France, Canada, Russia, and Italy) played a prominent role in scientific collaboration with China, especially the USA. The Chinese Academy of Sciences took the leading position of institutions with many branches. The "985 Project” stimulated the most productive institutions for academic research with a huge funding injection and the universities in Hong Kong showed good scientific performance. The citation impact of internationally collaborative papers differed among fields and international collaborations made positive contributions to academic research in China. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2011 Bibliometric analysis nationallicence China nationallicence Essential science indicator nationallicence Highly cited papers nationallicence Fu Hui-Zhen Department of Environmental Engineering, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, People's Republic of China aut Chuang Kun-Yang Department of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wu-Hsing Street, 11014, Taipei, Taiwan aut Wang Ming-Huang Department of Environmental Sciences, The Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences, Ministry of Education, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, People's Republic of China aut Ho Yuh-Shan Department of Environmental Sciences, The Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences, Ministry of Education, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, People's Republic of China aut Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 88/3(2011-09-01), 841-862 0138-9130 88:3<841 2011 88 11192 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0416-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0416-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fu Hui-Zhen Department of Environmental Engineering, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, People's Republic of China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chuang Kun-Yang Department of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wu-Hsing Street, 11014, Taipei, Taiwan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wang Ming-Huang Department of Environmental Sciences, The Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences, Ministry of Education, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, People's Republic of China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ho Yuh-Shan Department of Environmental Sciences, The Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences, Ministry of Education, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, People's Republic of China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Scientometrics Springer Netherlands 88/3(2011-09-01), 841-862 0138-9130 88:3<841 2011 88 11192 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer