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Research Report: Thursday, October 29, 2026 — fully counted
Here is the research world on Thursday, October 29, 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 | 24,899 | up 19.3% on the 7-day average |
| Records added to PubMed | 5,727 | down 17.1% on the 7-day average |
| New citations made | 355,034 | up 19.2% on the 7-day average |
| Countries publishing | 169 | |
| Active institutions | 11,560 |
Top countries
| # | Country | Papers | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 2,942 | 11.8% |
| 2 | United States | 2,139 | 8.6% |
| 3 | Indonesia | 1,349 | 5.4% |
| 4 | India | 974 | 3.9% |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 702 | 2.8% |
Most active institutions
| # | Institution | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | 235 |
| 2 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | France | 133 |
| 3 | University of London | United Kingdom | 128 |
| 4 | State Council of the People's Republic of China | China | 116 |
| 5 | Russian Academy of Sciences | Russia | 108 |
Busiest journals
- Pendas Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan Dasar — 133 papers
- Scientific Reports — 125 papers
- Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange — 86 papers
- PLoS ONE — 77 papers
- International Journal of Reproduction Contraception Obstetrics and Gynecology — 75 papers
Leading research fields
- Social Sciences: 3,803 papers
- Medicine: 3,782 papers
- Engineering: 2,406 papers
- Computer Science: 2,289 papers
- Physics and Astronomy: 1,250 papers
Papers gaining the most citations
- PROBAST+AI: an updated quality, risk of bias, and applicability assessment tool for prediction models using regression or artificial intelligence methods (BMJ) — +17 citations
- A Survey on Hallucination in Large Language Models: Principles, Taxonomy, Challenges, and Open Questions (ACM Transactions on Information Systems) — +11 citations
- DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning (Nature) — +9 citations
Scientists gaining the most citations
- David Moher (St. Michael's Hospital) — +1,288
- Andrea C. Tricco (St. Michael's Hospital) — +937
- Lesley A. Stewart (University of York) — +930
Explore every number on the live board. Papers = articles, reviews, preprints, letters, conference papers and book chapters.