Number of scientific and technical journal articles

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China is the top country by number of scientific journal articles in the world. As of 2020, number of scientific journal articles in China was 669,744 that accounts for 23.09% of the world's number of scientific journal articles. The top 5 countries (others are the United States of America, India, Germany, and the United Kingdom) account for 51.37% of it. The world's total number of scientific journal articles was estimated at 2.9 million in 2020.

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What is number of scientific 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.