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Publication Shares of Selected Countries in All Publications
The publication shares of selected countries in all scientific publications recorded in the Web of Science database show significant changes in the period under review from 1995 to 2021.
Most countries, including the large western European countries of Germany, France and the UK, as well as the USA, have lost publication shares. The German publication share has fallen from 5.2 to 3.9 percent, the British from 5.4 to 4.2 percent, the French from 3.7 to 2.3 percent and the US-American from 23.3 to 16.2 percent. This contrasts with an enormous increase in China's share of publications from 9.8 to 23.8 percent.