China is dedicating an increasing share of its growing GDP toward research. In just ten years, it jumped from publishing fewer papers than the US to 60% more. Meanwhile, the volume of (predominantly western) editors and reviewers has hardly grown. . . . Bringing together volume, turnaround time, retraction, and several other pieces of data, this piece argues that we are sleepwalking toward an avoidable breaking point. . . .
At the time that Plan S was conceived, the paper output of Western Europe was about 300k papers larger than China’s. Now, it is 200k papers smaller. Europe’s ability to influence the business decisions of publishers, such as the transition to Open Access via Plan S, is diminishing. A transition to Open Access is now largely in the hands of Chinese policymakers, especially for categories in Physical Sciences and Engineering.
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