Dataset · OurResearch
Scholarly Articles
4 years, 2022–2025 · 218 countries
How many scholarly articles published in a year have at least one author at a university, institute or other institution in each country, as counted by OpenAlex, the open catalogue of the world's research. It is a broad, openly licensed picture of where published research comes from.
This site holds every year from 2022 to 2025, read from OurResearch’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Scholarly Articles · the file
- Newest
- Scholarly Articles, 2025
- Held
- 4 years · 869 rows
- Licence
- Public domain or CC0
014 years
Every year
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scholarly Articles, 2025Newest | 218 | +2 −1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Scholarly Articles, 2024 | 217 | +1 −1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Scholarly Articles, 2023 | 217 | +1 −1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Scholarly Articles, 2022 | 217 | — | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: scholarly-articles-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2025 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 218 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 218 | 0 | |
Articles with at least one author at an institution in the country (full counting)articlesHeadline | The headline figure: Articles with at least one author at an institution in the country (full counting). | Number · whole numbers | 1 Kiribati1,094,890 Chinamiddle 2,240 | 210 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.
03219 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 53 | 54 | 54 | 54 |
| Americas | 46 | 46 | 46 | 47 |
| Asia | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 |
| Europe | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 |
| Oceania | 19 | 18 | 18 | 18 |
| All | 217 | 217 | 217 | 218 |
Who joined and who left
+ Anguilla
+ Cook Islands
− Solomon Islands
+ ComorosNot in this dataset · 6 places this site covers
OurResearch gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
OpenAlex (OurResearch)
2 · Their file
Scholarly Articles 2025
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
4 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as scholarly-articles-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored in whole numbers, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
Read from the OpenAlex API: articles grouped by the country of their authors' institutions, one publication year at a time. The figures are OpenAlex's own counts on the day they were read; OpenAlex adds and merges records daily.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 29, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
No conditions at all. Crediting the publisher is still the courteous thing to do.
A credit line
Source: OpenAlex (OurResearch), Scholarly Articles, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
OpenAlex (OurResearch). Scholarly Articles, 2022–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/scholarly-articles
The publisher’s own citation: Priem, J., Piwowar, H., & Orr, R. (2022). OpenAlex: A fully-open index of scholarly works, authors, venues, institutions, and concepts. arXiv:2205.01833.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Scholarly Articles by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Government Spending on EducationUIS · 51 held · 1971–2023
- Upper Secondary Completion RateUIS · 45 held · 1981–2025
- Out-of-School Rate, PrimaryUIS · 32 held · 1981–2024
07Questions
Scholarly Articles: questions and answers
What is the Scholarly Articles?
How many scholarly articles published in a year have at least one author at a university, institute or other institution in each country, as counted by OpenAlex, the open catalogue of the world's research. It is a broad, openly licensed picture of where published research comes from.
Which years of the Scholarly Articles can I download?
All 4, from 2022 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does OurResearch rank countries on it?
No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC0 1.0, with credit to OurResearch. The licence text is linked on this page.