Scientific and technical journal articles in Euro area

Researchers in the euro area published 457,629 scientific and technical articles in 2023.

Measure: Scientific and technical journal articles Unit: Articles, fractional count Data: 1996 to 2023 Source: World Bank
Euro area is a group: Euro area; membership follows each source definition (World Bank EMU, ECB U2 changing composition). The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Euro area, 2023 457,629 Articles, fractional count
Change from 2022 −2.1% 2022: 467,379 articles
World, 2023 3,271,296 articles Official aggregate

Scientific and technical journal articles in Euro area over time

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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 Euro areaWorld
2023 457,629 articles 3,271,296 articles
2022 467,379 articles 3,220,952 articles
2021 482,258 articles 3,111,013 articles
2020 452,295 articles 2,868,013 articles
2019 440,951 articles 2,708,531 articles
2018 429,981 articles 2,522,113 articles
2017 430,191 articles 2,425,390 articles
2016 428,577 articles 2,336,757 articles
2015 426,602 articles 2,252,543 articles
2014 424,436 articles 2,195,344 articles
2013 419,362 articles 2,125,848 articles
2012 412,070 articles 2,062,566 articles
2011 397,181 articles 2,003,515 articles
2010 381,722 articles 1,909,442 articles
2009 374,171 articles 1,827,111 articles
2008 358,195 articles 1,725,502 articles
2007 343,337 articles 1,636,696 articles
2006 328,202 articles 1,570,081 articles
2005 312,856 articles 1,484,401 articles
2004 282,802 articles 1,324,894 articles
2003 268,028 articles 1,213,775 articles
2002 257,372 articles 1,154,717 articles
2001 251,167 articles 1,109,574 articles
2000 243,711 articles 1,070,967 articles
1999 233,634 articles 1,020,793 articles

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −2.1% from 467,379 articles in 2022.
  • Since 2013, when it was 419,362 articles, the figure has changed by +9.1%.
  • The figure for the world in 2023 was 3,271,296 articles.

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 Euro area
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