Scientific Competition between Countries: Did China Get What It Paid for?

Pierre Courtioux, François Métivier () and Antoine Reberioux
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François Métivier: IPGP - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris - INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers - UPD7 - Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 - UR - Université de La Réunion - IPG Paris - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This paper examines the rise of China's relative standing in the global academic science marketplace. We first develop a simple theoretical model, based on the aggregation of individual knowledge production functions. This model predicts the existence of a stable power (scaling) law, relating the world share of countries' scientific production to their world share of public investment in scientific research. We test and confirm this prediction, using bibliometric crosscountry longitudinal data for OECD and non-OECD countries, over the 1996-2015 period. This analysis allows for China's impressive catch-up, and for the West's decline to be accounted for, in the science marketplace, over the last two decades.

Keywords: Economics of science; knowledge production function; international ranking; Economie de la science; fonction de production de savoir; classements internationaux (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-09
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Published in 2019

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