AJE Scholarly Publishing Report: 2016 A brief look at current publication trends, popular areas of study, and the journals and institutions with the most publications.
20162015201420132012201120102009200820072006
Comparing Publication Trends, 2006 - 2016, Overall, U.S., and China
500,000
1,000,000
1,500,000
2,000,000
0
2,159,921
Last year, almost 2.2 million articles were published around the globe
China remains a significant source of growth, nearly even with the US
393,831
481,546
The number of papers published grew again last year, with increasing contributions from countries with developing research programs.
0 100,000 200,000 300,000 400,000 500,000 600,000
567,890
285,378
220,602
266,385
209,044
0 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000
21,086
20,348
6,306
12,823
4,720
0 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000
20,741
10,325
9,685
9,527
9,091
Looking Back: The Last Decade of Research Publishing
Top PublishingCountries in 2016
Top 5 Areas of Studyby number of publications
Top 5 Journalsby number of publications
Top 5 Institutionsby number of publications
1. United States | 2. China | 3. United Kingdom | 4. Germany | 5. India
Medicine
Engineering
Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology
Physics and Astronomy
Chemistry
Chinese Academy of Sciences CHINAUniversidade de São Paulo BRAZILTsinghua University CHINAUniversity of Toronto CANADAZhejiang University CHINA
PLOS ONE
Scientific Reports
RSC Advances
Oncotarget
Physical Review B
Medicine continues to outpace all other fields, widening the gap over 2nd place Engineering.
Scientific Reports is now catching up to world
leader PLOS ONE.
The top five institutions collectively increased
their publication output by 20% over 2015.
2016
2006 776,000+
+162%SOUTHKOREA
+151%CHINA
+125%BRAZIL
+190%INDIA +160 %
2016
2006
56% increase in publications over the last decade.
Asia and other emerging markets showed strong growth.
Energy papers showed the biggest leap in the past 10 years.
Multidisciplinary studies have also doubled in that time.
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Results presented here are from our analysis of data found in Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Web of Science (http://wokinfo.com/)
