Chou Cheng-kung says that a total of over 2000 papers are published every year in Nature, and Science, the scientific community's two most authoritative periodicals. But there have only been a couple of contributions from Taiwan during the past five years, neither of which concerned bio-medicine.
周成功指出，科學界最權威的「自然」與「科學」雜誌，每年共發表兩千多篇論文，過去五年來，台灣只有一、二篇，生物醫學界甚至連一篇都沒有。