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Research Report: Friday, October 30, 2026 — fully counted
Here is the research world on Friday, October 30, 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 | 25,597 | up 23.4% on the 7-day average |
| Records added to PubMed | 5,694 | down 18.3% on the 7-day average |
| New citations made | 352,468 | up 18.1% on the 7-day average |
| Countries publishing | 174 | |
| Active institutions | 11,698 |
Top countries
| # | Country | Papers | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 2,877 | 11.2% |
| 2 | United States | 2,055 | 8.0% |
| 3 | Indonesia | 1,871 | 7.3% |
| 4 | India | 1,277 | 5.0% |
| 5 | Germany | 1,268 | 5.0% |
Most active institutions
| # | Institution | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | 233 |
| 2 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | France | 144 |
| 3 | University of London | United Kingdom | 111 |
| 4 | Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin | Germany | 99 |
| 5 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China | 97 |
Busiest journals
- Scientific Reports — 137 papers
- JURNAL FARMASIMED (JFM) — 126 papers
- International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health — 106 papers
- Věda a perspektivy — 89 papers
- PLoS ONE — 75 papers
Leading research fields
- Medicine: 4,272 papers
- Social Sciences: 4,271 papers
- Engineering: 2,429 papers
- Computer Science: 1,825 papers
- Arts and Humanities: 1,627 papers
Papers gaining the most citations
- Global, regional, and national burden of chronic kidney disease in adults, 1990–2023, and its attributable risk factors: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 (The Lancet) — +3 citations
- Recommendations for the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function by Echocardiography and for Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction Diagnosis: An Update From the American Society of Echocardiography (Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography) — +3 citations
- PROBAST+AI: an updated quality, risk of bias, and applicability assessment tool for prediction models using regression or artificial intelligence methods (BMJ) — +2 citations
Scientists gaining the most citations
- Josef Coresh (Johns Hopkins University) — +22
- Cyrus C. Cooper (University of Liège) — +21
- Farshad Farzadfar (World Health Organization) — +18
Explore every number on the live board. Papers = articles, reviews, preprints, letters, conference papers and book chapters.