Scientific and technical journal articles in World
Researchers in the world published 3,271,296 scientific and technical articles in 2023. The value for 2023 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1996.
World is a group: All economies covered by the World Bank. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
World, 2023
3,271,296
Change from 2022
+1.6%
European Union, 2023
558,077 articles
Scientific and technical journal articles in World 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.
| Period | World | European Union |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3,271,296 articles | 558,077 articles |
| 2022 | 3,220,952 articles | 568,739 articles |
| 2021 | 3,111,013 articles | 588,274 articles |
| 2020 | 2,868,013 articles | 554,457 articles |
| 2019 | 2,708,531 articles | 543,786 articles |
| 2018 | 2,522,113 articles | 530,444 articles |
| 2017 | 2,425,390 articles | 530,740 articles |
| 2016 | 2,336,757 articles | 528,513 articles |
| 2015 | 2,252,543 articles | 525,923 articles |
| 2014 | 2,195,344 articles | 519,982 articles |
| 2013 | 2,125,848 articles | 510,177 articles |
| 2012 | 2,062,566 articles | 500,131 articles |
| 2011 | 2,003,515 articles | 480,846 articles |
| 2010 | 1,909,442 articles | 461,646 articles |
| 2009 | 1,827,111 articles | 449,914 articles |
| 2008 | 1,725,502 articles | 430,826 articles |
| 2007 | 1,636,696 articles | 410,767 articles |
| 2006 | 1,570,081 articles | 392,756 articles |
| 2005 | 1,484,401 articles | 374,012 articles |
| 2004 | 1,324,894 articles | 338,573 articles |
| 2003 | 1,213,775 articles | 319,973 articles |
| 2002 | 1,154,717 articles | 307,259 articles |
| 2001 | 1,109,574 articles | 299,798 articles |
| 2000 | 1,070,967 articles | 290,458 articles |
| 1999 | 1,020,793 articles | 277,469 articles |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +1.6% from 3,220,952 articles in 2022.
- Since 2013, when it was 2,125,848 articles, the figure has changed by +53.9%.
- The figure for the European Union in 2023 was 558,077 articles.