The dominance of big teams in China’s scientific output

Abstract Modern science is dominated by scientific productions from teams. A recent finding shows that teams of both large and small sizes are essential in research, prompting us to analyze the extent which a country’s work carried out big or Here, using over 26 million publications Web Science, we find China’s research output more than rest world, particularly case fields natural science. Despite global trend papers written teams, drop team much steeper. As China shift size, diversity for innovative does not increase as other countries. Using national average baseline, National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC) supports fewer (NSF) United States does, implying preferred grant agencies China. Our provides new insights into concern originality innovation China, indicates need balance