Scientific and technical journal articles in East Asia and Pacific

Researchers in East Asia and Pacific published 1,304,927 scientific and technical articles in 2023. The value for 2023 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1996.

Measure: Scientific and technical journal articles Unit: Articles, fractional count Data: 1996 to 2023 Source: World Bank
East Asia and Pacific is a group: World Bank region. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
East Asia and Pacific, 2023 1,304,927 Articles, fractional count
Change from 2022 +3.9% 2022: 1,256,164 articles
World, 2023 3,271,296 articles Official aggregate

Scientific and technical journal articles in East Asia and Pacific over time

View
Places
2 selected
East Asia and Pacific World ×

Articles, fractional count. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Scientific and technical journal articles (articles, fractional count), 1999 to 2023
Period East Asia and PacificWorld
2023 1,304,927 articles 3,271,296 articles
2022 1,256,164 articles 3,220,952 articles
2021 1,124,976 articles 3,111,013 articles
2020 1,015,367 articles 2,868,013 articles
2019 941,335 articles 2,708,531 articles
2018 835,995 articles 2,522,113 articles
2017 781,060 articles 2,425,390 articles
2016 737,608 articles 2,336,757 articles
2015 702,254 articles 2,252,543 articles
2014 678,048 articles 2,195,344 articles
2013 647,179 articles 2,125,848 articles
2012 615,931 articles 2,062,566 articles
2011 607,665 articles 2,003,515 articles
2010 579,933 articles 1,909,442 articles
2009 542,635 articles 1,827,111 articles
2008 494,720 articles 1,725,502 articles
2007 452,649 articles 1,636,696 articles
2006 426,641 articles 1,570,081 articles
2005 386,512 articles 1,484,401 articles
2004 318,968 articles 1,324,894 articles
2003 271,470 articles 1,213,775 articles
2002 248,687 articles 1,154,717 articles
2001 237,265 articles 1,109,574 articles
2000 215,661 articles 1,070,967 articles
1999 200,341 articles 1,020,793 articles

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +3.9% from 1,256,164 articles in 2022.
  • Since 2013, when it was 647,179 articles, the figure has changed by +101.6%.
  • The figure for the world in 2023 was 3,271,296 articles.

More for East Asia and Pacific

All statistics for East Asia and Pacific

Source and dates

Original producer
US National Science Foundation, Science and Engineering Indicators
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
IP.JRN.ARTC.SC · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1996 to 2023 for East Asia and Pacific
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: US National Science Foundation, Science and Engineering Indicators