The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) keeps a high profile with its abundant research output, according to the Nature Index 2015 published as a supplement in Nature released on December 17 by the Nature Publishing Group.
The Nature Index 2015 China supplement, published with Nature on 17 December, shows China's total contribution to high-quality science has risen to become the second largest in the world, surpassed only by the United States.
The Nature Index 2015 China supplement, published by Nature Publishing Group, shows that CAS is the world's largest institutional contributor to the Nature Index. In 2014 its WFC was 1,308 (its AC was 3,124), significantly higher than that of the second-ranked institution, Harvard University, with a WFC of 865.
CAS has taken 56 of the top 200 institutions of the Index, with the University of Science and Technology of China ranks in China's top five university contributors.
The Academy is the top institutional producer in chemistry WFC, both in China and around the globe. The Institute of Chemistry (ICCAS) is the top contributing CAS institute by WFC. Its research strengths lie in molecular and nanosciences, organic and polymeric materials, chemical biology, as well as energy and green chemistry.
By subject areas, CAS leads not only in chemistry, but also in physical sciences, and earth and environmental sciences, with higher WFCs in these major subject areas than any other research institutions worldwide.
These cutting-edge areas of chemistry tend to have an applied aspect and are essential for industrial innovation. For instance, an ICCAS researchers' study on the assembly mechanism of organic composite materials strongly contributed to the development of flexible photonics and the realization of nanophotonic circuits for next-generation optical information processing.
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