Explore the rise of China's influence in the chemical space and the decline of US dominance through interactive visualizations.
Main countries contributing to the chemical space (CS) from 1996 to 2022.
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Percentage of new substances with participation of China or the US resulting from China-US collaboration (right axis). Left axis show the percentage of new substances with participation of country (China or US) that are reported in papers with no international collaboration.
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Percentage of the annual growth rate of the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita
Number of researchers in research and development activities
Recent expansion of the CS and of three of its subspaces
Dive into the interactive map and plots to explore the CS across 155 countries from 1996 to 2022. You can select more than one country to find the collaborations in the literature between the selected countries.
This plot shows the global or regional snapshot of the chemical space contributions by countries, highlighting the average contributions based on the year range selected (defaults to 1996-2022).
When viewing collaborations, Blue Colors represent Countries Collaborations with the US
Legend is sorted by the average contribution (shown in parenthesis) of the collaboration/country to the CS between 1996 to 2022.
Source: Bermúdez-Montaña, M., et al. (2025). China's rise in the chemical space and the decline of US influence. ChemRxiv link: https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/67920ada6dde43c908f688f6