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Scholarly Articles, 2023

Figures for 2023, 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, 2023 covers 217 countries. China is highest, at 810,932; Dominica is lowest, at 2. The middle country reads 1,666. Against 2022, 214 values changed (141 up, 73 down), 1 country joined, 1 left.

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Scholarly Articles · Data for 2023

HighestChina

810,932

LowestDominica

2

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, 2023, 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, 2023: every country, as published by OpenAlex (OurResearch).
ChinaCHNEastern Asia810,932
United StatesUSANorthern America650,758
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia410,832
IndiaINDSouthern Asia258,218
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe205,922
BrazilBRASouth America184,842
GermanyDEUWestern Europe169,494
RussiaRUSEastern Europe156,405
JapanJPNEastern Asia139,679
FranceFRAWestern Europe132,007
ItalyITASouthern Europe126,998
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia124,115
SpainESPSouthern Europe122,937
CanadaCANNorthern America113,781
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand101,978
South KoreaKOREastern Asia94,540
UkraineUKREastern Europe75,740
PolandPOLEastern Europe71,248
IranIRNSouthern Asia69,653
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa69,070
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia65,132
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe64,168
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia51,401
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe51,155
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia48,695

02In 2023

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. China810,932
  2. United States650,758
  3. Indonesia410,832
  4. India258,218
  5. United Kingdom205,922

Lowest

  1. Dominica2
  2. Vanuatushared3
  3. Cook Islandsshared3
  4. British Virgin Islandsshared4
  5. Vatican Cityshared4

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1,666. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

  • +1 / −1countries joined / left
  • 214values changed, of 216 in both
  • 141 · 73rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Comoros− Solomon Islands

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do.

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • 206 distinct values among 217

    Values are stored exactly as published. 3 countries share 17. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 217 countries has every column.

05The 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

Cite this edition

OpenAlex (OurResearch) (2023). Scholarly Articles, 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/scholarly-articles/2023

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