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Research Report: Sunday, November 1, 2026 — fully counted
Here is the research world on Sunday, November 1, 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 | 21,717 | down 5.5% on the 7-day average |
| Records added to PubMed | 1,187 | down 81.7% on the 7-day average |
| New citations made | 392,405 | up 16.7% on the 7-day average |
| Countries publishing | 171 | |
| Active institutions | 10,171 |
Top countries
| # | Country | Papers | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 2,874 | 13.2% |
| 2 | United States | 1,667 | 7.7% |
| 3 | Indonesia | 1,015 | 4.7% |
| 4 | India | 662 | 3.0% |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 544 | 2.5% |
Most active institutions
| # | Institution | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | 224 |
| 2 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | France | 134 |
| 3 | University of London | United Kingdom | 109 |
| 4 | State Council of the People's Republic of China | China | 109 |
| 5 | Harvard University | United States | 101 |
Busiest journals
- Parkinsonism & Related Disorders — 438 papers
- Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer — 161 papers
- Infection Disease & Health — 140 papers
- World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research — 139 papers
- Вестник науки — 130 papers
Leading research fields
- Medicine: 4,215 papers
- Engineering: 2,577 papers
- Social Sciences: 2,181 papers
- Computer Science: 1,596 papers
- Business, Management and Accounting: 1,128 papers
Papers gaining the most citations
- DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning (Nature) — +3,827 citations
- A Survey of Large Language Models (Frontiers of Computer Science) — +2,803 citations
- A Survey on Hallucination in Large Language Models: Principles, Taxonomy, Challenges, and Open Questions (ACM Transactions on Information Systems) — +745 citations
Explore every number on the live board. Papers = articles, reviews, preprints, letters, conference papers and book chapters.