China is leading the world in four scientific fields in terms of the total number of citations generated by the country's international academic papers published over the past decade, according to annual reports published on Monday by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China.

中国科学技术信息研究所12月27日发布的年度报告显示，2011至2021年，中国有四个领域的国际论文被引次数排名世界第一位。

These four fields are materials science, chemistry, engineering technology and computer science, with computer science being added to the list this year, the report said.

这四个领域是材料、化学、计算机科学和工程技术，其中，计算机科学为今年新入榜领域。

Last year, China published 1,833 research papers and articles in 15 of the world's top scientific publications, including Nature, Science and Cell. This feat placed China two spots higher on the rankings than in 2019, reaching second place behind the United States.

2020年，我国在《自然》、《科学》、《细胞》等15种世界顶尖学术期刊上发表学术论文和文章1833篇，排在世界第二位，比2019年上升2位，美国排第一位。

Last year, Chinese scientists co-wrote around 144,500 scientific papers, 14,400 more than in 2019, with collaborators from 169 countries and regions. China's total number of co-authored papers increased by 11.1 percent in 2020 compared with the previous year, with the US being China's biggest partner in scientific literature.

2020年中国发表的国际论文中，国际合著论文为14.45万篇，比2019年增加1.44万篇，增长11.1%。合作伙伴涉及169个国家和地区，美国是中国最大的科研合作伙伴。