[identity profile] anfalicious.livejournal.com 2011-03-31 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
In the years 1998-2009, there were only 32000 Chinese get their PhDs from a US university.

Oh, forgot to mention, the methodology of this study just looked at Chinese names; so this means that it wasn't just Chinese students, but American students with Chinese backgrounds along with Malay/Singaporean etc. Chinese.

Another figure for perspective, in 2007-8, the US enrolled just over 600 000 international students in all degree types. In other words about the same amount of foreigners are going to uni in the US as there are people starting post grads in China.

[identity profile] donkeyjon.livejournal.com 2011-04-01 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
After a quick look through the archives of Science, I can say that there has not been a significant increase in articles from Chinese universities in there in the last couple of years, while there has been a lot of Chinese names from US institutions. Sadly, I don't know what the top journals in particular science fields are, so this is merely observational data from a high-end journal.

For an example from outside of the science domain, Texas A&M recently released a count of total articles published in the 8 A-level journals for management over the last six years, and for just 2010. No university outside of the US or Canada was in the top 50 of either list.