A couple of weeks ago the Scholarly Kitchen blog shared a fascinating report titled "Mind the Gap - Understanding China's Perspective on Research Integrity and Open Access" which provides important insights into issues that CNI has been tracking since late 2020 (see https://www.cni.org/publications/cliffs-pubs/science-nationalism-dec-2020 ) regarding the potential divergence of scholarly communications practices in China and the US/Europe. See
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/11/15/guest-post-mind-the-gap-understanding-chinas-perspective-on-research-integrity-and-open-access/Also relevant here is a 29 November 2023 Editorial from Nature on the splintering of global science. See
Global science is splintering into two — and this is becoming a problem
The United States and China are pursuing parallel scientific tracks. To solve crises on multiple fronts, the two roads need to become one.
Clifford Lynch Director, CNI
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