INTRODUCING THE NATURE PUBLISHING INDEX CHINA

摘要

Nature Publishing Group is delighted to present here for the first time the rankings of research institutions and cities in mainland China based on the Nature Publishing Index - a measure of the output of research articles in Nature journals. These rankings are based on the number of papers published in 2010, with data for 2009 also presented for comparison. Furthermore, China's performance is placed in context regionally and globally by presenting the rankings of its institutions in the Asia-Pacific index (see Asia-Pacific rankings p. 20) and in the recently released Global Top 50 Index.