Scientific and technical journal articles in Europe and Central Asia

Researchers in Europe and Central Asia published 865,613 scientific and technical articles in 2023.

Measure: Scientific and technical journal articles Unit: Articles, fractional count Data: 1996 to 2023 Source: World Bank
Europe and Central Asia is a group: World Bank region. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Europe and Central Asia, 2023 865,613 Articles, fractional count
Change from 2022 −0.9% 2022: 873,858 articles
World, 2023 3,271,296 articles Official aggregate

Scientific and technical journal articles in Europe and Central Asia 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 Europe and Central AsiaWorld
2023 865,613 articles 3,271,296 articles
2022 873,858 articles 3,220,952 articles
2021 905,458 articles 3,111,013 articles
2020 854,359 articles 2,868,013 articles
2019 831,537 articles 2,708,531 articles
2018 792,802 articles 2,522,113 articles
2017 783,726 articles 2,425,390 articles
2016 773,929 articles 2,336,757 articles
2015 757,760 articles 2,252,543 articles
2014 741,291 articles 2,195,344 articles
2013 725,841 articles 2,125,848 articles
2012 708,937 articles 2,062,566 articles
2011 683,509 articles 2,003,515 articles
2010 656,503 articles 1,909,442 articles
2009 641,021 articles 1,827,111 articles
2008 613,658 articles 1,725,502 articles
2007 590,881 articles 1,636,696 articles
2006 566,234 articles 1,570,081 articles
2005 546,186 articles 1,484,401 articles
2004 501,448 articles 1,324,894 articles
2003 474,229 articles 1,213,775 articles
2002 458,735 articles 1,154,717 articles
2001 449,418 articles 1,109,574 articles
2000 436,779 articles 1,070,967 articles
1999 417,745 articles 1,020,793 articles

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −0.9% from 873,858 articles in 2022.
  • Since 2013, when it was 725,841 articles, the figure has changed by +19.3%.
  • The figure for the world in 2023 was 3,271,296 articles.

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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 Europe and Central Asia
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