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Scholarly Articles, 2024

Figures for 2024, 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, 2024 covers 217 countries. China is highest, at 947,146; Solomon Islands is lowest, at 1. The middle country reads 1,814. Against 2023, 209 values changed (146 up, 63 down), 1 country joined, 1 left.

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Scholarly Articles · Data for 2024

HighestChina

947,146

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, 2024, 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, 2024: every country, as published by OpenAlex (OurResearch).
ChinaCHNEastern Asia947,146
United StatesUSANorthern America663,627
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia427,677
IndiaINDSouthern Asia290,994
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe210,330
BrazilBRASouth America196,251
GermanyDEUWestern Europe168,563
RussiaRUSEastern Europe144,361
JapanJPNEastern Asia142,398
ItalyITASouthern Europe129,414
FranceFRAWestern Europe125,735
SpainESPSouthern Europe123,548
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia122,293
CanadaCANNorthern America116,166
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand104,509
South KoreaKOREastern Asia98,024
UkraineUKREastern Europe77,704
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia75,064
PolandPOLEastern Europe71,988
IranIRNSouthern Asia71,502
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa69,669
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe63,890
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia53,967
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia53,755
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe50,409

02In 2024

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. China947,146
  2. United States663,627
  3. Indonesia427,677
  4. India290,994
  5. United Kingdom210,330

Lowest

  1. Solomon Islands1
  2. Tuvalu2
  3. Niueshared3
  4. Isle of Manshared3
  5. Dominica4

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1,814. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032023 → 2024

Since 2023

  • +1 / −1countries joined / left
  • 209values changed, of 216 in both
  • 146 · 63rose · fell
  • 7unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Solomon Islands− Cook 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

  • 204 distinct values among 217

    Values are stored exactly as published. 3 countries share 5. 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) (2024). Scholarly Articles, 2024 [data set], describing 2024. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/scholarly-articles/2024

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