Chinese S&T papers citation higher: report

China ranked the world's fourth in terms of citations of science and technology papers written by Chinese scientists, a government think tank revealed on Friday.

Average numbers of citations for individual reports has increased by 9.4 percent from last year's 6.92 times to 7.57, the report by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information under the Ministry of Science and Technology said.

From 2004 to this year, Chinese scientists have published about 1.37 million papers in international journals and magazines, ranking the world's second highest, the report said.

In total, research papers from Chinese scientists were cited 10.37 million times, the fourth in the world, it said.

According to the report, papers in the fields of chemistry, computer sciences, engineering technologies, material science and mathematics are among the most-cited ones.