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Top 5 countries/regions with most output in climate change related research. In 2020, the total number of relevant papers in the Chinese mainland ranked second in the world. |
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During the IUSTC annual conference, a report, titled Science and Technology in Supporting Global Efforts to Achieve Carbon Neutrality, was released by S&T Daily and supported by the data from Clarivate. The key findings are as follows:
?The research output related to climate change is increasing, and the growth of such research is faster than that of the overall indexed papers in the database;
?The disciplines covered by climate change research have changed;
?The output of climate change publications in the U.S. began to grow rapidly as early as 2006. Relevant research on the Chinese mainland began to increase significantly after 2012 with the highest growth rate;
?The percentage of international collaboration papers has increased rapidly, far exceeding the overall proportion of global international collaboration papers in the same period;
?China and the U.S. are each other's largest partners;
?Half of the Top 10 countries with the most collaboration in climate change research with the Chinese mainland are from Europe. The Chinese mainland is also the second largest partner of the EU27+UK;
?China and ASEAN countries began to collaborate in climate change research since 2003. More collaborations appear in recent ten years, particularly in recent five years.
Top 10 Research Frontiers in Climate Change
?The number of global insect declines
?Using climate models to study climate change
?Peer-to-Peer (P2P) energy trading
?River or soil forecast based on neural network theory
?Global glacier mass changes
?Decoupling economic growth and carbon emissions
?Efficient electrocatalytic nitrogen fixation under ambient conditions
?Aerosol research
?Research on shared bicycles
?Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet research