Richard B. Freeman, Harvard University
Richard B. Freeman, Harvard University
SBBI Seminar: "Bigger than You Thought: China’s Contribution to Scientific Publications and Its Impact on the Global Economy" (Paper joint with Qingnan Xie, Nanjing University of Science & Technology)
SBBI Seminar: "Bigger than You Thought: China’s Contribution to Scientific Publications and Its Impact on the Global Economy" (Paper joint with Qingnan Xie, Nanjing University of Science & Technology)
01 Feb 201912:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Harvard community only
China’s advance to the forefront of scientific research is one of the 21st century’s
most
surprising developments, with implications for a world where knowledge is arguably
“the one ring that rules them all.” This paper provides new estimates of China’s
contribution to global science that far exceed estimates based on the proportion of
papers with Chinese addresses in databases of international journals. Address-based
measures ignore articles written by Chinese researchers with non-Chinese addresses
and
articles in Chinese language journals not indexed in those databases. Taking account
of
these contributions, we attribute 36 percent of 2016 global scientific articles to
China.
Taking account of increased citations to Chinese-addressed articles relative to the
global average as well, we attribute 37 percent of global citations to scientific
articles
published in 2013 to China. With shares of articles and citations more than twice
its
share of global population or GDP, China has achieved a comparative advantage in
knowledge that has implications for the division of labor and trade among countries
and
for the direction of research and of technological and economic development worldwide.
Location:
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center 102
Organizer:
Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. He is currently serving as Faculty co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and is Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance. He directs the Science Engineering Workforce Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is Co-Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities.