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Chart: Move over USA, here comes China

China's many hopeful graduates take their place in a booming research landscape. Credit: Getty Images

Chart: Move over USA, here comes China

15 March 2016

Nicky Philips

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China's many hopeful graduates take their place in a booming research landscape.

It will come as no surprise to anyone that China's rapidly growing contribution to high-quality research outshines all other nations. Meanwhile, the contribution to research of the United States,a stronghold in the Nature Index, has dropped since 2012.

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