Scientific and technical journal articles — all countries

Scientific and technical journal articles — World

Scientific and technical journal articles in the world in 2023 — 3,271,296 articles. Since 1996, the indicator has risen by 232.2%.

2023 3.27M articles +1.56% vs 2022
World rank
Period maximum 3.27M articles2023
Period minimum 984,773 articles1996

Trend over time

1996–2023 · articles

Scientific and technical journal articles — World, 1996–202301M2M3M4M19961999200220052008201120142017202020231996: 984,773 articles1997: 1,014,840 articles1998: 1,020,434 articles1999: 1,020,793 articles2000: 1,070,967 articles2001: 1,109,574 articles2002: 1,154,717 articles2003: 1,213,775 articles2004: 1,324,894 articles2005: 1,484,401 articles2006: 1,570,081 articles2007: 1,636,696 articles2008: 1,725,502 articles2009: 1,827,111 articles2010: 1,909,442 articles2011: 2,003,515 articles2012: 2,062,566 articles2013: 2,125,848 articles2014: 2,195,344 articles2015: 2,252,543 articles2016: 2,336,757 articles2017: 2,425,390 articles2018: 2,522,113 articles2019: 2,708,531 articles2020: 2,868,013 articles2021: 3,111,013 articles2022: 3,220,952 articles2023: 3,271,296 articles
Change over the period: +2.29M (+232.19%) Average annual rate: 4.55 %

Comparison, 2023

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: World

World 3.27M articles
World 3.27M articles
Scientific and technical journal articles — World, by year World All countries CSV XLSX
Year articles Change Change, %
2023 3.27M +50,344 +1.56%
2022 3.22M +109,940 +3.53%
2021 3.11M +243,000 +8.47%
2020 2.87M +159,482 +5.89%
2019 2.71M +186,418 +7.39%
2018 2.52M +96,723 +3.99%
2017 2.43M +88,634 +3.79%
2016 2.34M +84,213 +3.74%
2015 2.25M +57,200 +2.61%
2014 2.2M +69,496 +3.27%
2013 2.13M +63,282 +3.07%
2012 2.06M +59,051 +2.95%
2011 2M +94,073 +4.93%
2010 1.91M +82,331 +4.51%
2009 1.83M +101,609 +5.89%
2008 1.73M +88,807 +5.43%
2007 1.64M +66,615 +4.24%
2006 1.57M +85,679 +5.77%
2005 1.48M +159,508 +12.04%
2004 1.32M +111,119 +9.15%
2003 1.21M +59,058 +5.11%
2002 1.15M +45,143 +4.07%
2001 1.11M +38,607 +3.6%
2000 1.07M +50,174 +4.92%
1999 1.02M +359 +0.04%
1998 1.02M +5,595 +0.55%
1997 1.01M +30,067 +3.05%
1996 984,773

About the indicator

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.