Japan fell by one place to a record-low 10th in a ranking of highly cited scientific papers between 2017 and 2019, as China topped the global list for the first time by surpassing the United States, according to a government institute report.Japanese researchers published on average 3,787 highly cited papers a year in the three-year period, but were overtaken by India, which came in ninth with 4,082 papers, the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy said Tuesday. The previous ranking covered the period between 2016 and 2018.China topped the latest ranking with 40,219 papers, fo…READ FULL ARTICLE
