[creato]

This data might just be unreliable. It had a weird spike in Dec 2021 that looks unusual compared to all the other frameworks.

[VHRanger]

China publishes a looooootttttt of papers. A lot of it is careerist crap.

To be fair, a lot of US papers are also crap, but Chinese crap research is on another level. There's a reason a lot of top US researchers are Chinese - there's brain drain going on.