The “Nature Publishing Index (NPI) 2012” includes 217 Chinese research institutes, a 42.8% increase. Of the 217, 107 of the institutes are included for the first time. The NPI is based on the number of primary research articles published in a Nature Publishing Group journal during a given year. The number of articles attributed to a certain institution are adjusted to reflect the corrected count, or each author’s relative contribution. The top five contributors were the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the University of Science & Technology of China, Tsinghua University, Peking University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, with corrected counts of 37.88, 9.46, 8.26, 8.10 and 6.62, respectively. The top 10 institutions made up 60% of the corrected count. The Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences was the CAS affiliate that contributed the largest share to CAS’s 2012 corrected count, at 16%. The number of Chinese papers in the 2012 NPI grew 35% to 303. Papers from China-based researchers accounted for 30% of all Asia-Pacific articles. The most competitive cities in terms of science were Beijing, Shanghai and Hefi, with respective corrected counts of 53.45, 26.60 and 10.58.

Source: NPI China