China Just Overtook The US in Scientific Output For The First Time

http://www.sciencealert.com/china-just-overtook-us-in-scientific-output-first-time-published-research

In 2016, China published over 426,000 scientific studies indexed by Elsevier’s Scopus database – accounting for about 18.6 percent of the international total. For the first time, the US came in second, notching up 409,000 published papers.