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Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders: United States losing ground as China’s lead expands rapidly (www.nature.com)

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[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Looking at Nature Index's lists of top institutions, Chinese institutions hold:

2022: 4 of top 10 [#1, 8, 9, 10]
2023: 6 of top 10 [#1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10]
2024: 7 of top 10 [#1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10]
2025: 8 of top 10 [#1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10]

It's a pretty clear, rapid rise in China becoming the main contributor to their database, and given the US political situation and academics famously being poached by China and Europe, I don't think Harvard will retain that #2 position for even another year.