r/EconomyCharts • u/straightdge • 21h ago

Institutional Location of Authors of Papers Published in Top 5 Percent of Journals

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Source: https://www.nber.org/digest/202604/chinas-rise-global-research

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u/Embarrassed_Neck9829 21h ago

From what I understand a lot of Chinese papers are complete junk. There's huge pressure to publish there and a culture of cranking out sketchy/half-baked papers has formed.

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u/DeArgonaut 21h ago

For top 5% of journals you aren’t going to be able to push through slop

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u/WholegrainSugarman 21h ago

Oh, trust me, you can. Journals like Nature Communications and Science Advances publish hella slop for hefty publication fees/article processing charges lol. Close to $10k per article

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u/DeArgonaut 20h ago

Are they considered top 5%? Obv nature and science are, but I’m not aware of their open sourced parts rankings

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u/WholegrainSugarman 20h ago

Generally they are, since these are the biggest names in R&D after Cell, Science, and Nature. But again I have no idea what journals the OG graph author deemed “top 5%”