Experts view this as part of China’s broader efforts to strengthen its “academic discourse power”.
Two new Dongbi Index journal lists, covering 4,027 medical and 3,064 life-science journals selected from more than 40,000 worldwide, were unveiled in Shanghai on March 21. They were developed by the Shenzhen-based data technology firm, Dongbi Data, in collaboration with the Institute of Medical Information & Library, an affiliate of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.
The rankings and underlying data analyses mapped China’s academic output across both fields, showing that Chinese researchers contributed nearly one-third of all global academic papers in the life sciences.
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Wu Dengsheng, founder of Dongbi Data and a professor at Shenzhen University’s college of management, said the team had built “a multidimensional, multilevel evaluation system centred on research quality”.