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Scholarly Articles, 2025

Figures for 2025, 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, 2025 covers 218 countries. China is highest, at 1,094,890; Kiribati is lowest, at 1. The middle country reads 2,240. Against 2024, 212 values changed (181 up, 31 down), 2 countries joined, 1 left.

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Scholarly Articles · Data for 2025

HighestChina

1,094,890

LowestKiribati

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, 2025, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 218 countries · select a heading to sort

Scholarly Articles, 2025: every country, as published by OpenAlex (OurResearch).
ChinaCHNEastern Asia1,094,890
United StatesUSANorthern America700,214
IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia439,247
IndiaINDSouthern Asia317,534
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe226,646
BrazilBRASouth America191,727
GermanyDEUWestern Europe180,671
JapanJPNEastern Asia154,037
RussiaRUSEastern Europe143,004
ItalyITASouthern Europe141,711
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia138,731
SpainESPSouthern Europe133,379
FranceFRAWestern Europe124,210
CanadaCANNorthern America120,580
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand110,226
South KoreaKOREastern Asia105,148
UkraineUKREastern Europe88,209
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia79,518
IranIRNSouthern Asia78,047
PolandPOLEastern Europe77,879
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe67,998
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia66,422
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa65,359
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia58,575
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe54,124

02In 2025

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. China1,094,890
  2. United States700,214
  3. Indonesia439,247
  4. India317,534
  5. United Kingdom226,646

Lowest

  1. Kiribati1
  2. Anguilla3
  3. Dominica4
  4. Vanuatushared5
  5. British Virgin Islandsshared5

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2,240. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032024 → 2025

Since 2024

  • +2 / −1countries joined / left
  • 212values changed, of 216 in both
  • 181 · 31rose · fell
  • 4unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Brazil196,251 → 191,727−4,524
  • Egypt69,669 → 65,359−4,310
  • France125,735 → 124,210−1,525
  • Lebanon7,018 → 5,609−1,409
  • Russia144,361 → 143,004−1,357
+ Anguilla+ Cook Islands− 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

  • 210 distinct values among 218

    Values are stored exactly as published. 3 countries share 15. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 218 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

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OpenAlex (OurResearch) (2025). Scholarly Articles, 2025 [data set], describing 2025. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/scholarly-articles/2025

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