Scientific publishing and the rise of APC

an ongoing debate in China and elsewhere!

In 2022, China, for the first time, took over the United States as the most important scientific knowledge producer with a number little over 830,000 scientific papers. This number accounted for around 15% of the world’s 5.4 million articles¹. From hindsight, it sounds like China is producing little than it should given the larger number of PhD re…