No. China is the No. 2 country. US is the No.1.
Here is the natureIndex table 2016.
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I was talking about science and
technology papers, including all disciplines but also excluding life sciences and related ones.
NatureIndex tallies only 68 journals, mostly in English and mostly in Anglo American based locations.
A more comprehensive indicator might be this:
I can not post links yet
Look up SCIMAGOJR
Then restrict your search to latest year (2015).
Then look for each of these disciplines separately:
Chemistry
Chemical Engineering
Computer Science
Decision Sciences
Engineering
Materials Science
Mathematics
Physics and Astronomy
Of these 8 disciplines, China published more in 7 of them than any other country. Only in the discipline of "Decision Sciences", China published 2nd most number after the United States.
OR
You can choose
sciencedirect dot
com, restrict search to latest year (2015), search for these 8 disciplines.
Chemistry
Chemical Engineering
Computer Science
Decision Sciences
Engineering
Materials Science
Mathematics
Physics and Astronomy
China published
55,163 papers in the 8 disciplines above in
2015
United States or USA published
31,549 papers in the 8 disciplines above in
2015
For the current year (2016), to date, China has published
53,210 papers in the 8 disciplines above in
2016 to date
For the same year (2016), to date, United States or USA has published
27,797 papers in the 8 disciplines above in
2016 to date.
Not only does China publish more in S&T, China is growing faster.
In 2015, China published 74.849% more than the USA in S&T disciplines.
In 2016 (current year) to date, China has published 91.424% more than the USA in S&T disciplines.