Cite China! Cite! Cite!

This month’s Essential Science Indicator (ESI) put my country as the topic of the Countries section:
According to Essential Science Indicators(SM), among the 145 top-performing countries in all People's Republic of China fields, the People's Republic of China ranked #6 for citations, #13 for papers, and #117 for citations per paper.

Among the many fields listed, chemistry ranks the most number of papers (111,776), far beyond the second, physics (78,152). Compared with another Asian country, Japan, however, China is weaker both in number of paper and citations per paper, in the field of chemistry.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University was named as Rising Stars in the field of chemistry. Rising star journals of the field Chemistry and Materials Science is Nano Lett. and Small, respectively. That is virtually to say that ‘nano’ is the rising star of terms, of researches, of titles, of words for advertisement, etc. We are too easily excited by very small things nowadays.

In addition, an aggressive country in the rising star list is Iran, it is the rising star in such fields as Biology & Biochemistry, Clinical Medicine, Engineering, Immunology, and Molecular Biology & Genetics.