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Scholarly Articles, 2022

Figures for 2022, as OurResearch published them · stored as published, never rewritten

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.

Scholarly Articles, 2022 covers 217 countries. China is highest, at 801,920; Solomon Islands is lowest, at 1. The middle country reads 1,580.

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Scholarly Articles · Data for 2022

HighestChina

801,920

LowestSolomon Islands

1

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Scholarly Articles, 2022, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 217 countries · select a heading to sort

Scholarly Articles, 2022: every country, as published by OpenAlex (OurResearch).
ChinaCHNEastern Asia801,920
United StatesUSANorthern America665,588
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia328,743
IndiaINDSouthern Asia243,885
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe209,414
GermanyDEUWestern Europe175,843
BrazilBRASouth America172,762
RussiaRUSEastern Europe163,175
JapanJPNEastern Asia146,316
FranceFRAWestern Europe139,528
ItalyITASouthern Europe131,372
SpainESPSouthern Europe122,459
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia119,621
CanadaCANNorthern America116,695
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand105,259
South KoreaKOREastern Asia94,204
IranIRNSouthern Asia76,891
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa68,698
PolandPOLEastern Europe68,187
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe65,407
UkraineUKREastern Europe63,022
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia61,516
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe53,057
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia51,396
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia45,707

02In 2022

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. China801,920
  2. United States665,588
  3. Indonesia328,743
  4. India243,885
  5. United Kingdom209,414

Lowest

  1. Solomon Islands1
  2. Dominica2
  3. Vatican Cityshared4
  4. Niueshared4
  5. Kiribatishared4

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1,580. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

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How values are stored

  • 206 distinct values among 217

    Values are stored exactly as published. 5 countries share 4. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 217 countries has every column.

04The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

Licence: CC0 1.0 · what it allows, in plain words

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OpenAlex (OurResearch) (2022). Scholarly Articles, 2022 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/scholarly-articles/2022

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