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Nov 03, 2009

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IWR News Desk, Information World Review, Tuesday 3 November 2009 at 11:08:00

Fastest growing global economy China will overtake the US within the next
decade in terms of research output, reveals a Thomson Reuters study. According
to the research report, there is an “explosive growth” in research output from
China, far outpacing research activity in the rest of the world

Currently China ranks second to the US after surpassing the UK, Germany and
Japan in 2006.

Called Global Research Report: China, the study found that China’s
output increased from around 20,000 research papers in 1998 to nearly 112,000 in
2008. The nation doubled its output since 2004 alone.

It also found that the nation’s research is concentrated in the physical
sciences and technology. Materials science, chemistry and physics predominate.
According to the study, rapid growth can be seen in agricultural sciences and
life sciences fields such as immunology, microbiology, and molecular biology and
genetics.

“If China’s research growth remains this rapid and substantial, European and
North Ameri

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