China moves to improve academic research quality, promote translational research

As China responds to the COVID-19 outbreak, the country’s ministries of Science and Technology and Education have issued guidance that aims to reduce of the focus of academic evaluations on publication quantity over research quality as well as promote translational research.

According to opinions announced Feb. 23, the ministries said evaluations of researchers and institutions should emphasize quality of innovation rather than the Science Citation Index (SCI)...