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Chinese universities surge in global rankings as US schools slip
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Experienced academics are seeing the growth in research production from China that the rankings reflect, and are warning that America is falling behind.
PHOTO: SOPHIE PARK/NYTIMES
Mark Arsenault
Until recently, Harvard was the most productive research university in the world, according to a global ranking that looks at academic publication.
That position may be teetering, the most recent evidence of a troubling trend for American academia.
