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).

Rank	Country	Articles published (2018)	Papers per capita in ppm (2018)
1	China	528,263	370.023
2	United States	422,808	1292.610
3	India	135,788	100.387
4	Germany	104,396	1255.901
5	Japan	98,793	776.661
6	United Kingdom	97,681	1454.849
7	Russia	81,579	559.780
8	Italy	71,240	1175.048
9	South Korea	66,376	1297.123
10	France	66,352	1020.949
11	Brazil	60,148	287.145
12	Canada	59,968	1617.497
13	Spain	54,537	1167.994
14	Australia	53,610	2153.172
15	Iran	48,306	590.537
16	Taiwan	38,558	1634.580
17	Poland	35,663	940.440
18	Turkey	33,536	407.286
19	Netherlands	30,457	1785.333
20	Indonesia	26,948	100.676
21	Malaysia	23,661	750.475
22	Switzerland	21,379	2507.621
23	Sweden	20,421	2047.908
24	Mexico	16,346	129.534
25	Belgium	15,688	1366.291
26	Czech Republic	15,577	1460.479
27	Portugal	14,295	1393.792
28	Denmark	13,979	2430.232
29	Egypt	13,327	135.405
30	South Africa	13,009	225.098
31	Pakistan	12,904	60.802
32	Thailand	12,514	181.722
33	Austria	12,362	1390.334
34	Israel	12,235	1459.760
35	Norway	11,803	2211.144
36	Singapore	11,459	1990.274
37	Greece	10,907	1036.566
38	Saudi Arabia	10,898	323.356
39	Finland	10,599	1919.213
40	Ukraine	10,380	234.597
41	Romania	10,345	530.347
42	Argentina	8,811	198.620
43	New Zealand	7,889	1663.247
44	Colombia	7,195	144.882
45	Ireland	7,174	1488.786
46	Chile	7,122	380.263
47	Hungary	6,701	690.291
48	Iraq	6,073	158.013
49	Nigeria	5,602	28.600
50	Tunisia	5,565	481.185
51	Slovakia	5,322	975.974
52	Algeria	5,231	123.874
53	Morocco	5,057	140.359
54	Serbia	4,523	652.980
55	Vietnam	4,286	44.858
56	Croatia	4,277	1029.014
57	Bulgaria	3,311	469.538
58	Slovenia	3,206	1542.951
59	United Arab Emirates	3,145	326.551
60	Bangladesh	3,135	19.427
61	Jordan	2,627	263.614
62	Kazakhstan	2,367	129.206
63	Lithuania	2,267	809.278
64	Philippines	2,237	20.975
65	Ecuador	2,142	125.378
66	Ethiopia	1,994	18.256
67	Lebanon	1,776	258.914
68	Peru	1,630	50.955
69	Qatar	1,503	540.321
70	Latvia	1,418	735.302
71	Estonia	1,415	1069.604
72	Sri Lanka	1,348	63.499
73	Ghana	1,276	45.237
74	Kenya	1,247	24.264
75	Cyprus	1,245	1063.989
76	Belarus	1,180	124.833
77	Kuwait	1,004	242.670
78	Cuba	969	85.464
79	Cameroon	876	34.739
80	Luxembourg	869	1438.158
81	Oman	856	177.245
82	Uruguay	852	247.008
83	Nepal	792	28.189
84	Azerbaijan	761	76.486
85	Bosnia and Herzegovina	704	211.798
86	Iceland	681	2022.494
87	Uganda	673	15.750
88	Venezuela	639	22.121
89	Tanzania	603	10.708
90	Georgia	550	137.399
91	Armenia	521	176.506
92	Puerto Rico	515	169.430
93	Costa Rica	507	101.411
94	North Macedonia	493	236.683
95	Malta	422	960.733
96	Sudan	398	9.521
97	Senegal	388	24.473
98	Palestine	376	77.319
99	Zimbabwe	359	24.864
100	Uzbekistan	354	10.900
101	Bahrain	322	205.168
102	Brunei	294	685.374
103	Botswana	281	124.663
104	Kosovo	278	155.994
105	Syria	275	16.229
106	Burkina Faso	252	12.759
107	Montenegro	250	398.210
108	Ivory Coast	248	9.893
	Malawi	231	12.732
110	Myanmar	231	4.301
111	Benin	228	19.852
112	Zambia	213	12.275
113	Trinidad and Tobago	211	151.816
114	Moldova	210	51.827
115	Albania	180	62.441
116	Panama	173	41.419
117	Rwanda	170	13.819
118	Jamaica	164	55.880
119	Libya	162	24.257
120	Namibia	156	63.718
121	Democratic Republic of the Congo	149	1.772
122	Cambodia	146	8.985
123	Mongolia	141	44.476
124	Fiji	140	158.464
125	Mozambique	139	4.713
	Kyrgyzstan	137	21.732
127	Yemen	137	4.807
	Madagascar	127	4.836
129	Mauritius	127	106.789
130	Afghanistan	112	3.013
131	Bolivia	103	9.072
132	Guatemala	100	5.798
133	Paraguay	98	14.088
134	Mali	90	4.718
	Laos	87	12.320
136	North Korea	87	3.405
137	Togo	86	10.901
138	Republic of the Congo	67	12.776
	Gabon	64	30.199
140	Papua New Guinea	64	7.436
141	Tajikistan	62	6.813
142	Niger	55	2.451
143	Bhutan	53	70.256
144	Dominican Republic	49	4.611
145	Grenada	46	412.726
	El Salvador	45	7.009
	Honduras	45	4.694
148	Monaco	45	1163.332
149	Nicaragua	44	6.805
150	Sierra Leone	41	5.359
151	Barbados	38	132.570
	Eswatini	34	29.922
152	Gambia	34	14.912
	Angola	30	0.974
	Greenland	30	530.373
155	Liechtenstein	30	791.348
156	Haiti	29	2.607
157	Guinea	28	2.255
158	Saint Kitts and Nevis	26	495.795
159	Liberia	25	5.188
	Burundi	21	1.995
161	Eritrea	21	6.082
	Bahamas	20	51.862
	Central African Republic	20	4.286
164	Mauritania	20	4.542
165	Lesotho	19	9.012
166	Suriname	17	29.514
	Chad	15	0.969
168	Guinea-Bissau	15	8.003
	Guyana	14	17.972
170	Timor-Leste	14	11.041
	Dominica	13	181.501
172	Solomon Islands	13	19.912
	Samoa	11	56.086
174	San Marino	11	325.588
	Seychelles	10	102.991
176	Somalia	10	0.666
	Belize	9	23.494
	Cape Verde	9	16.551
179	South Sudan	9	0.820
	Maldives	7	13.574
181	Palau	7	390.909
	Antigua and Barbuda	6	62.314
	Djibouti	6	6.257
184	Vanuatu	6	20.5
185	Tonga	5	45.212
	Andorra	4	51.944
	Federated States of Micronesia	4	35.511
	Saint Lucia	4	21.991
189	Turkmenistan	4	0.684
	Comoros	3	3.604
191	Equatorial Guinea	3	2.292
192	Marshall Islands	2	34.239
	Kiribati	1	8.632
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1	9.074
	São Tomé and Príncipe	1	4.739
196	Tuvalu	1	86.896
197	Nauru	0	0.000
	World	2,554,373	334.732

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.

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%