China's "Thirteenth Five-Year National Science and Technology Innovation Plan" lists the overall improvement of independent innovation capability as the primary development goal. Among them, international scientific papers require the world to cite them for the second time. Now, this goal has been achieved ahead of schedule. In the past 10 years, China's international scientific papers were cited 9.40 times on average, which was 9.9% higher than last year's statistics of 8.55 times, although there is still a certain gap with the world level.
The citation after publication can reflect the influence of the paper. 2007-20 17 World Top 1% cited papers from various disciplines. Papers published in the last two years have been cited a lot in the last two months, and papers cited before 1‰ in this discipline are called hot papers. According to reports, the number of international hot papers in China accounts for 1/4 of the world, and the number of highly cited papers continues to rank third in the world. Among them, by the end of 20 17 and 10, the number of highly cited papers in China was 20 13 1, accounting for 4.7% of the world's10, and the number increased/kloc-0 compared with 20 16 years. The number of highly cited papers in the United States is 69,976, which still ranks first. The number of highly cited papers in Britain is 25,880, ranking second.