Abstract:

Purposes Scientific papers published at home and abroad by Chinese researchers are analyzed to provide decision-making support for management personnel at all levels. Methods Based on important databases， such as Science Citation Index （SCI）， Ei Compendex， Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science， Social Science Citation Index， and Chinese Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations Database， the number of Chinese excellent scientific papers， scientific papers， discipline and region distribution， papers of fund projects， international coauthored papers， and Chinese social science papers were studied and analyzed. Findings The number of excellent scientific papers in China was 759.5 thousand in 2024， up 9.1% from 2023. According to SCI， Chinese authors have produced about 866.8 thousand papers indexed by SCI in 2024. Chinese papers were cited 96.79 million times from 2015 to August 2025， increasing 20.0% compared with that in 2024. China ranked the second. On average， Chinese papers were cited 17.24 times per paper， increasing by 6.4% compared with that in 2024， exceeding the world average of 16.43 times per article. Conclusions The number of Chinese scientific papers and the improvement of paper impact has increased rapidly in recent years.

Key words: Scientific paper, International cooperation, Citation statistics, Multidisciplinary field

摘要：

目的 了解中国科技人员在国内外发表论文情况，为各级管理部门提供决策依据。 方法 采用国际权威检索数据库《科学引文索引》《工程索引》《科技会议录引文索引》《社会科学引文索引》以及《中国科技论文与引文数据库》的数据，对中国卓越科技论文数量、中国科技论文数量、学科和地区分布、基金项目论文、国际合著论文和社会科学论文情况进行统计分析。 结果 2024年中国卓越科技论文数量为75.95万篇，较2023年上升了9.1%；根据《科学引文索引》数据，2024年中国作者共计发表86.68万篇论文；2015—2025年（截至2025年8月），中国论文的总被引频次为9679.24万次，与2024年统计时相比，增加了20.0%，位居世界第2；中国平均每篇论文被引用17.24次，比2024年统计时提高了6.4%，超过世界平均值16.43次/篇。 结论 近年来，中国科技论文数量迅速增长，论文的影响力的提升速度也相对较快。

关键词: 科技论文, 国际合作, 引文统计, 交叉领域