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 (2003–2016)
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.