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The article presents Hefei, China's contribution to the Nature Index based on weighted fractional count of scientific articles published in 2013, with the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) as the city's largest contributing institution. USTC's contributed papers include topics on chemistry such as the development of graphene-like materials and carbon aerogels, and on physics like quantum optics. The Hefei University of Technology focused on engineering topics like nanowires.

A letter to the editor is presented in which the author agrees with Jie Zhang, President of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, who said that change is needed to improve the Chinese research papers quality.

A letter to the editor is presented regarding the impact of the increased of scientific papers published in China which are being inflated by a payment scheme offered by some Chinese institutions to boost journal publications.

The article discusses aspects of China's scientific research. The author is critical on the performance of China in making high-quality scientific papers due to lack of collaboration among Chinese, unorganized division of work and efforts. Moreover, he relates the incapability of Confucius and Zhuang Zhou's writings to the improvement of Chinese scientific research due to its negative influences in the society.

In this article, the author discusses the need for China to improve the quality of its research publication. According to a 2011 report of the Londons's Royal Society, China produced the second highest quantity of scientific papers but is ranked ninth in the citation aspect. He presents several areas that must be addressed by China to improve its research's quality including the importance of wide data sharing, better data access, and international collaboration improvements.

Reports on the rise of share of global scientific publications in China. Increase of publications in international scientific journals; Strength of the historical foundations in metallurgy; Attribution of the overall growth in the nation's scientific profile to the thousands of papers from the labs in the U.S, co-authored by visiting Chinese researchers.

Reports that Nanjing University, southern China, is still the country's most productive source of scientific papers. How other universities compare with Nanjing; Statistics from `Science Citation Index'; Reasons for Nanjing's leadership; Skepticism about Nanjing's performance.