List of countries by number of scientific and technical journal articles

Scientific and technical journal articles refer to the number of scientific and engineering articles published in the following fields: physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, clinical medicine, biomedical research, engineering and technology, and earth and space sciences. Gap-filled total. Scientific and technical article counts are from journals classified by the Institute for Scientific Information's Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI).[1]

Rank Country Articles published (2018)
1  China 528,263
2  United States 422,808
3  India 135,788
4  Germany 104,396
5  Japan 98,793
6  United Kingdom 97,681
7  Russia 81,579
8  Italy 71,240
9  South Korea 66,376
10  France 66,352
11  Brazil 60,148
12  Canada 59,968
13  Spain 54,537
14  Australia 53,610
15  Iran 48,306
16  Poland 35,663
17  Turkey 33,536
18  Netherlands 30,457
19  Indonesia 26,948
20  Malaysia 23,661
21   Switzerland 21,379
22  Sweden 20,421
23  Mexico 16,346
24  Belgium 15,688
25  Czech Republic 15,577
26  Portugal 14,295
27  Denmark 13,979
28  Egypt 13,327
29  South Africa 13,009
30  Pakistan 12,904
31  Thailand 12,514
32  Austria 12,362
33  Israel 12,235
34  Norway 11,803
35  Singapore 11,459
36  Greece 10,907
37  Saudi Arabia 10,898
38  Finland 10,599
39  Ukraine 10,380
40  Romania 10,345
41  Argentina 8,811
42  New Zealand 7,889
43  Colombia 7,195
44  Ireland 7,174
45  Chile 7,122
46  Hungary 6,701
47  Iraq 6,073
48  Nigeria 5,602
49  Tunisia 5,565
50  Slovakia 5,322
51  Algeria 5,231
52  Morocco 5,057
53  Serbia 4,523
54  Vietnam 4,286
55  Croatia 4,277
56  Bulgaria 3,311
57  Slovenia 3,206
58  United Arab Emirates 3,145
59  Bangladesh 3,135
60  Jordan 2,627
61  Kazakhstan 2,367
62  Lithuania 2,267
63  Philippines 2,237
64  Ecuador 2,142
65  Ethiopia 1,994
66  Lebanon 1,776
67  Peru 1,630
68  Qatar 1,503
69  Latvia 1,418
70  Estonia 1,415
71  Sri Lanka 1,348
72  Ghana 1,276
73  Kenya 1,247
74  Cyprus 1,245
75  Belarus 1,180
76  Kuwait 1,004
77  Cuba 969
78  Cameroon 876
79  Luxembourg 869
80  Oman 856
81  Uruguay 852
82    Nepal 792
83  Azerbaijan 761
84  Bosnia and Herzegovina 704
85  Iceland 681
86  Uganda 673
87  Venezuela 639
88  Tanzania 603
89  Georgia 550
90  Armenia 521
91  Puerto Rico 515
92  Costa Rica 507
93  North Macedonia 493
94  Malta 422
95  Sudan 398
96  Senegal 388
97  Palestine 376
98  Zimbabwe 359
99  Uzbekistan 354
100  Bahrain 322
101  Brunei 294
102  Botswana 281
103  Kosovo 278
104  Syria 275
105  Burkina Faso 252
106  Montenegro 250
107  Ivory Coast 248
108  Malawi 231
 Myanmar 231
110  Benin 228
111  Zambia 213
112  Trinidad and Tobago 211
113  Moldova 210
114  Albania 180
115  Panama 173
116  Rwanda 170
117  Jamaica 164
118  Libya 162
119  Namibia 156
120  Democratic Republic of the Congo 149
121  Cambodia 146
122  Mongolia 141
123  Fiji 140
124  Mozambique 139
125  Yemen 137
 Kyrgyzstan 137
127  Madagascar 127
 Mauritius 127
129  Afghanistan 112
130  Bolivia 103
131  Guatemala 100
132  Paraguay 98
133  Mali 90
134  North Korea 87
 Laos 87
136  Togo 86
137  Republic of the Congo 67
138  Papua New Guinea 64
 Gabon 64
140  Tajikistan 62
141  Niger 55
142  Bhutan 53
143  Dominican Republic 49
144  Grenada 46
145  El Salvador 45
 Monaco 45
 Honduras 45
148  Nicaragua 44
149  Sierra Leone 41
150  Barbados 38
151  Eswatini 34
 Gambia 34
152  Liechtenstein 30
 Angola 30
 Greenland 30
155  Haiti 29
156  Guinea 28
157  Saint Kitts and Nevis 26
158  Liberia 25
159  Eritrea 21
 Burundi 21
161  Central African Republic 20
 Mauritania 20
 Bahamas 20
164  Lesotho 19
165  Suriname 17
166  Chad 15
 Guinea-Bissau 15
168  Timor-Leste 14
 Guyana 14
170  Solomon Islands 13
 Dominica 13
172  Samoa 11
 San Marino 11
174  Somalia 10
 Seychelles 10
176  Belize 9
 South Sudan 9
 Cape Verde 9
179  Maldives 7
 Palau 7
181  Vanuatu 6
 Djibouti 6
 Antigua and Barbuda 6
184  Tonga 5
185  Federated States of Micronesia 4
 Saint Lucia 4
 Turkmenistan 4
 Andorra 4
189  Comoros 3
 Equatorial Guinea 3
191  Marshall Islands 2
192  Tuvalu 1
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1
 Kiribati 1
 São Tomé and Príncipe 1
196  Nauru 0
World 2,554,373

Growth in scientific and technical journal articles

The following table shows the development of scientific articles from 2003 to 2016 in all countries with over 5,000 articles in 2016.[2]

Country Articles
(2003)
Articles
(2016)
Annual growth
(20032016)
 Indonesia 360 7,729 28%
 Malaysia 1,741 20,332 22%
 Iran 3,768 40,975 21%
 Colombia 676 6,121 19%
 Pakistan 1,421 9,181 16%
 Saudi Arabia 1,719 9,232 14%
 China 86,621 426,165 14%
 Tunisia 1,066 5,266 13%
 Romania 2,601 10,194 12%
 Thailand 2,260 9,582 12%
 India 26,797 110,320 12%
 Egypt 3,296 10,807 10%
 Chile 2,064 6,746 10%
 Brazil 16,752 53,607 10%
 Portugal 4,508 13,773 9%
 South Africa 4,227 11,881 8%
 South Korea 23,201 63,063 8%
 Turkey 13,354 33,902 8%
 Slovakia 2,136 5,359 7%
 Czech Republic 6,375 15,963 7%
 Ireland 3,069 6,834 7%
 Mexico 6,602 14,529 6%
 Norway 5,119 10,726 6%
 Poland 15,948 32,978 6%
 Australia 24,850 51,068 6%
 Argentina 4,588 8,648 5%
 Singapore 6,037 11,254 5%
 Russia 32,330 59,134 5%
 Denmark 7,280 13,471 5%
 Spain 28,887 52,821 5%
 New Zealand 4,396 7,465 4%
 Italy 41,207 69,125 4%
 Greece 6,681 10,725 4%
  Switzerland 12,848 21,128 4%
 Austria 7,750 12,366 4%
 Canada 37,696 57,356 3%
 Netherlands 19,565 29,949 3%
 Belgium 10,812 16,394 3%
 Germany 70,448 103,122 3%
 Hungary 4,500 6,208 3%
 Sweden 14,554 19,937 3%
 Finland 7,792 10,545 2%
 France 51,758 69,431 2%
 Ukraine 5,614 7,375 2%
 United Kingdom 74,600 97,527 2%
 United States 321,766 408,985 2%
 Israel 9,676 11,893 2%
 Japan 97,235 96,536 0%

References

  1. "Scientific and technical journal articles | Data". data.worldbank.org. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
  2. "TCdata360: Scientific and technical journal articles". TCdata360. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
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