Table 2.

Proportion (%) of all papers that were in the world top 1% in their discipline on the basis of citation rate, by discipline, China: 2000 to 2016 (world average = 1.00)

Sciences	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Agriculture	0.71	0.80	0.56	0.62	0.83	0.33	0.67	0.55	0.87	0.94	0.88	1.03	0.83	0.92	0.90	0.86	1.12
biol/biomed	0.13	0.41	0.37	0.35	0.39	0.45	0.35	0.39	0.46	0.52	0.52	0.54	0.65	0.64	0.68	0.82	0.78
Chemistry	0.38	0.47	0.57	0.52	0.82	0.78	0.85	0.70	0.86	0.91	0.98	1.07	1.20	1.20	1.16	1.15	1.21
Computing	0.29	0.22	0.23	0.35	0.43	0.40	0.43	0.52	0.47	0.45	0.50	0.61	0.75	1.04	1.41	1.65	1.73
Engineering	0.28	0.28	0.38	0.49	0.41	0.38	0.40	0.38	0.46	0.51	0.60	0.64	0.76	0.93	0.94	1.09	1.17
Planetary	1.04	0.72	1.04	1.23	0.91	1.10	0.95	1.31	1.12	1.30	1.11	1.11	1.26	1.16	1.28	1.21	1.16
Health sci	0.28	0.27	0.29	0.30	0.30	0.29	0.21	0.33	0.36	0.38	0.43	0.48	0.51	0.57	0.57	0.56	0.64
Materials	0.48	0.21	0.54	0.53	0.41	0.37	0.52	0.62	0.66	0.57	0.62	0.67	0.81	0.82	0.89	1.04	1.16
Mathematics	0.91	0.89	0.62	1.04	1.02	1.17	0.87	1.23	0.79	0.93	1.02	1.12	1.12	0.97	1.03	1.44	1.63
Nat resources	0.83	0.49	0.41	0.58	0.77	0.86	0.77	1.06	0.74	0.84	0.84	0.64	0.82	0.80	0.80	1.01	0.92
Physics	0.35	0.35	0.52	0.63	0.71	0.73	0.79	0.73	0.72	0.71	0.76	0.86	0.92	0.95	0.99	1.12	1.18
All disciplines	0.37	0.36	0.44	0.51	0.52	0.50	0.51	0.55	0.56	0.58	0.63	0.70	0.80	0.89	0.95	1.05	1.12

Includes only fields in which more than 5000 papers were published in 2016. Astronomy includes astrophysics. Biol/biomed, Biological sciences and Biomedical sciences. Planetary sciences include geoscience, atmospheric and ocean sciences. Mathematics includes statistics; Nat resources, Natural resources and conservation. All disciplines include astronomy and astrophysics, social sciences and psychology, not separately listed here. Source: Author from NSB, 2020, Tables S5A-36 to S5A-49