China’s sciences are not very good, and relatedly most of those papers are likely of extremely low quality. I know Chinese, and it’s a wonderful language, but I wouldn’t recommend learning it for that purpose. My 2c
While most of the papers don’t get translated Chinese authors generally get rewarded more for publications in high impact factor journals. That means that a good Chinese scientist currently publishes in English and the Chinese language paper will be on average crap.
On the other hand China is progressing and very nationalist, so there’s a good chance that some fields will progress to publish high quality research in China sooner or later.
China’s sciences are not very good, and relatedly most of those papers are likely of extremely low quality. I know Chinese, and it’s a wonderful language, but I wouldn’t recommend learning it for that purpose. My 2c
While most of the papers don’t get translated Chinese authors generally get rewarded more for publications in high impact factor journals. That means that a good Chinese scientist currently publishes in English and the Chinese language paper will be on average crap.
On the other hand China is progressing and very nationalist, so there’s a good chance that some fields will progress to publish high quality research in China sooner or later.