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Research Report: Saturday, October 31, 2026 — fully counted
Here is the research world on Saturday, October 31, 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 | 16,382 | down 23.8% on the 7-day average |
| Records added to PubMed | 3,453 | down 43.6% on the 7-day average |
| New citations made | 163,054 | down 45.6% on the 7-day average |
| Countries publishing | 158 | |
| Active institutions | 7,933 |
Top countries
| # | Country | Papers | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesia | 2,329 | 14.2% |
| 2 | China | 1,437 | 8.8% |
| 3 | United States | 894 | 5.5% |
| 4 | India | 814 | 5.0% |
| 5 | Uzbekistan | 381 | 2.3% |
Most active institutions
| # | Institution | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | 117 |
| 2 | Universitas Pamulang | Indonesia | 88 |
| 3 | Russian Academy of Sciences | Russia | 75 |
| 4 | Universitas Negeri Surabaya | Indonesia | 65 |
| 5 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | France | 61 |
Busiest journals
- ARMADA Jurnal Penelitian Multidisiplin — 118 papers
- Scientific Reports — 108 papers
- Journal of the American College of Cardiology — 94 papers
- SEIKAT Jurnal Ilmu Sosial Politik dan Hukum — 86 papers
- Russian Journal of Immunology — 81 papers
Leading research fields
- Social Sciences: 2,917 papers
- Medicine: 2,265 papers
- Engineering: 1,751 papers
- Computer Science: 1,529 papers
- Arts and Humanities: 901 papers
Papers gaining the most citations
- Let's Take the Con out of Econometrics (Journal of Business Cycle Research) — +84 citations
- A Survey of Large Language Models (Frontiers of Computer Science) — +36 citations
- DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning (Nature) — +20 citations
Scientists gaining the most citations
- Yoshua Bengio (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) — +11,118
- Geoffrey E. Hinton (Microsoft (United States)) — +7,855
- S. D. M. White (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics) — +7,797
Explore every number on the live board. Papers = articles, reviews, preprints, letters, conference papers and book chapters.