Top Science Websites in China

Key Insights on Top Science Websites in China on December 2025

As of December 2025, sciencedirect.com leads Science in China with 9.43M monthly visits. Its audience skews desktop-first (100% desktop / 100% mobile), and traffic is down month over month -9.02% and up year over year 34.97%. elsevier.com holds second with 5.37M visits and a desktop-leaning mix (100% desktop / 0% mobile), while wiley.com ranks third with 3.98M visits.

Across the leaders, jst.go.jp is the most mobile-first (0.02% of visits), whereas sciencedirect.com is the most desktop-reliant (100%). Momentum favors metaboanalyst.ca in the latest month (174.09%), while epfl.ch shows the steepest pullback. On a yearly view, iplant.cn posts the strongest expansion (141.2%), contrasted with paperswithcode.com (-57.95%).

Acquisition patterns also differ: sciencedirect.com is driven primarily by search, sciencedirect.com by direct, and sciencedirect.com by referral; overall, 74 of the top 100 sites are direct-led, 15 are search-led, and 11 lean on social.

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