📈 **中国在国际科研合作中的领导地位日益凸显**：根据芝加哥大学的研究，过去25年间，全球科学合作的领导权已显著从美国转移至中国。通过分析近六百万篇国际合作论文，研究发现，中国在国际科学领域的影响力持续增强，预示着未来十年中国将成为国际科研合作的主要领导者。

🔬 **关键科技领域领导力快速提升**：研究预测，中国将在化学、材料科学和计算机科学等领域于2028年与美国达到领导力均等，并在数学、物理和工程领域于2031年实现。此外，在人工智能、半导体、通信、能源和高性能计算等八个关键技术领域，中国预计将在2030年前与美国并驾齐驱，显示出其在战略性科技领域的快速发展。

🌍 **“一带一路”倡议促进全球科学人才培养**：研究还发现，中国积极在“一带一路”倡议沿线国家培养科学家，这不仅加强了国际合作的深度，也使得科学研究的地域归属更加多元化。这一策略可能促使美国及其他国家反思并扩大与发展中国家的合作，以共同推动全球科学进步，并培养具有全球视野的科学人才。

🤝 **国际合作模式的演变**：研究结果表明，中国在国际科学合作中的领导地位提升，对全球科研格局产生了深远影响。中国与美国、英国、欧盟等地的合作关系正在快速演变，部分领域已实现或即将实现领导力均等。这种变化可能促使各国调整其科研合作策略，以适应新的全球科学力量平衡。

International research collaborations will be increasingly led by scientists in China over the coming decade. That is according to a new study by researchers at the University of Chicago, which finds that the power balance in international science has shifted markedly away from the US and towards China over the last 25 years (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 122 e2414893122).

To explore China’s role in global science, the team used a machine-learning model to predict the lead researchers of almost six million scientific papers that involved international collaboration listed by online bibliographic catalogue OpenAlex. The model was trained on author data from 80 000 papers published in high-profile journals that routinely detail author contributions, including team leadership.

The study found that between 2010 and 2012 there were only 4429 scientists from China who were likely to have led China-US collaborations. By 2023, this number had risen to 12714, meaning that the proportion of team leaders affiliated with Chinese institutions had risen from 30% to 45%.

Key areas

If this trend continues, China will hit “leadership parity” with the US in chemistry, materials science and computer science by 2028, with maths, physics and engineering being level by 2031. The analysis also suggests that China will achieve leadership parity with the US in eight “critical technology” areas by 2030, including AI, semiconductors, communications, energy and high-performance computing.

For China-UK partnerships, the model found that equality had already been reached in 2019, while EU and China leadership roles will be on par this year or next. The authors also found that China has been actively training scientists in nations in the “Belt and Road Initiative” which seeks to connect China closer to the world through investments and infrastructure projects.

This, the researchers warn, limits the ability to isolate science done in China. Instead, they suggest that it could inspire a different course of action, with the US and other countries expanding their engagement with the developing world to train a global workforce and accelerate scientific advancements beneficial to their economies.

The post Scientific collaborations increasingly more likely to be led by Chinese scientists, finds study appeared first on Physics World.