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Research Report: Monday, October 26, 2026 — fully counted
Here is the research world on Monday, October 26, 2026, now fully counted. Journals report new papers over several days, so we publish each day once all its papers are counted. All numbers come straight from OpenAlex and PubMed and may still rise slightly as late records arrive.
The day in numbers
| Measure | Count | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| New papers published | 22,470 | up 9.0% on the 7-day average |
| Records added to PubMed | 5,853 | up 21.9% on the 7-day average |
| New citations made | 303,576 | up 6.4% on the 7-day average |
| Countries publishing | 165 | |
| Active institutions | 10,864 |
Top countries
| # | Country | Papers | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 2,566 | 11.4% |
| 2 | United States | 1,842 | 8.2% |
| 3 | Indonesia | 1,088 | 4.8% |
| 4 | India | 908 | 4.0% |
| 5 | Brazil | 681 | 3.0% |
Most active institutions
| # | Institution | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | France | 234 |
| 2 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | 209 |
| 3 | University of London | United Kingdom | 129 |
| 4 | Harvard University | United States | 94 |
| 5 | Inserm | France | 83 |
Busiest journals
- Scientific Reports — 163 papers
- Multidisciplinary Biomechanics Journal — 111 papers
- Acta Innovations — 108 papers
- Pendas Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan Dasar — 92 papers
- PLoS ONE — 82 papers
Leading research fields
- Medicine: 3,498 papers
- Social Sciences: 3,096 papers
- Engineering: 2,284 papers
- Computer Science: 2,283 papers
- Physics and Astronomy: 1,124 papers
Papers gaining the most citations
- DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning (Nature) — +540 citations
- DESI DR2 results. II. Measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations and cosmological constraints (Physical review. D/Physical review. D.) — +32 citations
- AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking (Societies) — +26 citations
Scientists gaining the most citations
- Ilya Sutskever — +6,851
- Chris Sander (Broad Institute) — +2,100
- Geoffrey E. Hinton (Microsoft (United States)) — +1,748
Explore every number on the live board. Papers = articles, reviews, preprints, letters, conference papers and book chapters.