“…dropped far behind. The explosive strengthening of Beijing's power in the global economy and finance has been known for a while (see, for example, Chen & Chen, 2015;Csomós, 2013;Lai, 2012;Pan, Guo, Zhang, & Liang, 2015;Timberlake, Wei, Ma, & Hao, 2014), but it has recently been observed that the city now occupies a leading position in international science 9 . In the period between 1986 and 1995, cities that produced the highest scientific output were located in developed countries (Table 3).…”