There are 3 comments on "China to overtake USA in science":
Posted by: GregWed Mar 30 10:49:04 2011
The metric used was "number of paper published". If the results of research are being published, I wonder if it matters where the research was done? Everyone gets the benefit, just by reading the results.
(A few commenters on TFA pointed out that quantity of papers != quality of research. They may be right. It's possible even that quantity of papers != quantity of research ...)
Posted by: unixdjFri Apr 1 01:12:36 2011
It may not matter where any particular research is done, but it matters how much research you do.
And both equations in parentheses are probably true.
The metric used was "number of paper published". If the results of research are being published, I wonder if it matters where the research was done? Everyone gets the benefit, just by reading the results.
(A few commenters on TFA pointed out that quantity of papers != quality of research. They may be right. It's possible even that quantity of papers != quantity of research ...)