Imbalances Between the Quantity and Quality of China’s Solar Energy Research

China's solar energy industry is developing rapidly and China's solar energy research is experiencing a high speed of development alongside it. Is China's solar energy research growth quantity-driven (paper-driven) or quality-driven (citation-driven)? Answering this question is important for China's solar research field and industrial sector, and has implications for China’s other renewable research programs. Applying statistical methods, the...