China's rise as a major contributor to science and technology

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 26, 2014, Pages 9437-9442

  Xie, Yu ^a,b   Zhang, Chunni ^b   Lai, Qing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese science; International competitiveness; Science education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE; ENGINEERING; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INVESTMENT; LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SCIENTIST; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

CHINESE SCIENCE; INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS; SCIENCE EDUCATION;

CHINA; EMPLOYMENT; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; POLITICS; RESEARCH; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC; SCIENCE; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84903748674     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1407709111     Document Type: Article

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