Scientific and technical journal articles in South Africa in 2023 — 14,949 articles. Ranked 33 in the world out of 197. Since 1996, the indicator has risen by 280.8%.
1996–2023 · articles
How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: South Africa
| Year | articles | Change | Change, % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 14,949 | −932 | −5.87% |
| 2022 | 15,881 | +402 | +2.6% |
| 2021 | 15,479 | +170 | +1.11% |
| 2020 | 15,309 | +619 | +4.21% |
| 2019 | 14,690 | +1,458 | +11.02% |
| 2018 | 13,232 | +423 | +3.3% |
| 2017 | 12,810 | +855 | +7.15% |
| 2016 | 11,955 | +1,066 | +9.79% |
| 2015 | 10,889 | +802 | +7.95% |
| 2014 | 10,087 | +539 | +5.64% |
| 2013 | 9,548 | +601 | +6.71% |
| 2012 | 8,947 | +706 | +8.57% |
| 2011 | 8,241 | +664 | +8.77% |
| 2010 | 7,577 | +459 | +6.46% |
| 2009 | 7,118 | +781 | +12.33% |
| 2008 | 6,337 | +365 | +6.11% |
| 2007 | 5,972 | +156 | +2.68% |
| 2006 | 5,816 | +569 | +10.84% |
| 2005 | 5,247 | +304 | +6.15% |
| 2004 | 4,943 | +590 | +13.55% |
| 2003 | 4,353 | −129 | −2.88% |
| 2002 | 4,482 | +325 | +7.83% |
| 2001 | 4,157 | +192 | +4.85% |
| 2000 | 3,965 | −80 | −1.99% |
| 1999 | 4,045 | +40 | +1.01% |
| 1998 | 4,005 | +80 | +2.05% |
| 1997 | 3,924 | −1 | −0.03% |
| 1996 | 3,925 | — | — |
The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages
The number of scientific and technical articles published during the year in peer-reviewed journals in the natural sciences and engineering, medicine, agriculture and mathematics. Articles are counted by the country of the authors' affiliation; under international co-authorship an article is counted for each country, so the sum over countries exceeds the world total.
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), license CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.
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