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Research Report: Thursday, November 5, 2026 — fully counted
Here is the research world on Thursday, November 5, 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 | 24,161 | down 8.5% on the 7-day average |
| Records added to PubMed | 5,957 | up 35.5% on the 7-day average |
| New citations made | 407,735 | down 12.3% on the 7-day average |
| Countries publishing | 171 | |
| Active institutions | 10,620 |
Top countries
| # | Country | Papers | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 3,539 | 14.6% |
| 2 | United States | 1,840 | 7.6% |
| 3 | Indonesia | 846 | 3.5% |
| 4 | India | 803 | 3.3% |
| 5 | Brazil | 656 | 2.7% |
Most active institutions
| # | Institution | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | 305 |
| 2 | Harvard University | United States | 150 |
| 3 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | France | 139 |
| 4 | Zhejiang University | China | 131 |
| 5 | University of London | United Kingdom | 128 |
Busiest journals
- Scientific Reports — 144 papers
- Journal of Human Sciences At Hail University — 88 papers
- University of Zawia Journal of Legal and Sharia Sciences — 79 papers
- PLoS ONE — 69 papers
- Journal Of Babylon Center for Humanities Studies — 66 papers
Leading research fields
- Social Sciences: 3,612 papers
- Medicine: 3,394 papers
- Arts and Humanities: 2,642 papers
- Computer Science: 2,583 papers
- Engineering: 1,891 papers
Papers gaining the most citations
- AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking (Societies) — +14 citations
- DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning (Nature) — +10 citations
- Beware of metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative artificial intelligence on learning motivation, processes, and performance (British Journal of Educational Technology) — +8 citations
Scientists gaining the most citations
- Yoshua Bengio (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) — +46,622
- Virginia Braun (University of Auckland) — +43,614
- Victoria Clarke (University of the West of England) — +43,451
Explore every number on the live board. Papers = articles, reviews, preprints, letters, conference papers and book chapters.