China Overtakes USA in Number of Biotech Publications
October 10, 2008| |
China has surpassed the United States for the first time in the number of 'biotech' papers published, says Gaspar Taroncher-Oldenburg and Andrew Marshall in the latest issue of Nature Biotechnology. China is now ranked second to the European Union with close to 1,500 biotechnology related papers published last year.
Taroncher-Oldenburg and Marshall gathered the data by analyzing papers at the The National Center for Biotechnology Information's PubMed. Their results indicate that among the countries with a rapid growth in biotech publications also include India, which is ranked above Germany but trailing the United States and Japan.
To see the graphs and other results related to the survey visit http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v26/n10/full/nbt1008-1062.html.
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