The Beijing Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Supplement: Research Across China’s 2023 Global Research Interactions, Contributions and Collaborations
The composition of China’s international research interactions is shifting, according to data from the Nature Index. Specifically, China’s researchers are increasingly working with scientists in countries taking part in the Beijing government’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
The reality is that it is about a lot more than that. It is a policy of the Chinese government to bolster its influence around the world by increasing ties with neighbours and other strategic partners. The BRI’s progress has been tracked by the Green Finance and Development Center at Fudan University. It estimates that China has spent more than US$1 trillion on the initiative since 2013 and that 151 countries have so far signed up to the project and the funding that comes with it.
A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality that is available free online at natureindex.com.
Author affiliations and institutional relationships are included in the Nature Index. The index tracks contributions to articles published in high-quality natural-science journals that have been chosen by an independent group of researchers.
Adjusted Share accounts for the small annual variation in the total number of articles in the Nature Index journals. It is arrived at by calculating the percentage difference in the total number of articles in the Index in a given year relative to the number of articles in a base year and adjusting Share values to the base year levels.
The bilateral collaboration score (CS) between two institutions A+B is the sum of each of their Shares on the papers to which both have contributed. There can be at least one article in a journal from a bilateral collaboration between two institutions or countries.
The profile page on each query provides a list of the recent outputs of the country or institution. There are two ways to display articles: by journal and by article. Research outputs are organized by subject area. The pages list the institution or country’s/territory’s top collaborators, as well as its relationship with other organizations. Users can track an institution’s performance over time, create their own indexes and export table data.
The tables in this supplement show the leading Chinese institutions based on their article Share (Share) in different subjects in 2023 and the top rising institutions based on their change in adjusted Share from 2022 to 2023. The 2023 data were estimated using a 12-month rolling window from 1 August 2022 to 31 July 2023.
Data for the article on the Belt and Road Initiative were based on a set of countries listed by the Green Finance and Development Center at Fudan University in Shanghai.
Chemistry in a country with high-energy physics: the Dilaton regime as a laboratory for nuclear physics, chemical chemistry, and physical sciences
The country is at the top of the Nature Index due to their strength in chemistry and physical sciences. There is potential in more than one area.
