Friday, February 02, 2007

Nature China

Macmillan CEO Richard Charkin in his blog points out the launch of Nature China, an English language site summarising scientific developments in China and Hong Kong. The site is sponsored by Astra Zeneca (so basic access is free) and describes itself thus:

Nature China is dedicated to highlighting the best research coming out of China providing scientists from around the world a convenient portal into publications drawn from across all scientific disciplines. Each week, our editors will select the best research published and provide a summary of the results. Users can also recommend papers to be included in Nature China and vote/comment on those suggestions. The best of these, chosen by you, will be included within the Nature China archive.

It adds:

China's growth as a scientific and economic 'powerhouse' has been unprecedented. Over the past 10 years research output has quadrupled to almost 80,000 manuscripts a year. Futhermore, the number of high impact papers from mainland China and Hong Kong in the top 1% of the ISI database in terms of citations has increased more than ten fold to about 300 per year.

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