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Welcome to ResearchBoard — the daily pulse of global science

By ResearchBoard Team

Every day, tens of thousands of new research papers appear around the world. Most of us only ever see a handful of them. ResearchBoard shows the whole picture at once, like a market board for science: how much was published, where, by whom, and what is being cited.

What you can see on the board

  • New papers published each day, worldwide and across all fields
  • Records added to PubMed, the main database for biomedical and life-science research
  • New citations made, meaning all the references listed in the day's new papers
  • Top countries, universities and journals, plus a world map of where research comes from
  • Research fields, such as medicine, engineering and social sciences
  • The most-cited papers and scientists, and those gaining the most citations day by day

On a typical recent weekday, the board counts around 20,000 new scholarly papers from more than 170 countries, written by authors at over 10,000 institutions.

Where the numbers come from

All data is free and open:

  1. OpenAlex, an open catalogue of the world's research with more than 300 million works
  2. PubMed, run by the US National Library of Medicine

The board updates automatically every morning (UTC).

How to read the numbers

A "paper" here is an article, review, preprint, letter, conference paper or book chapter. Datasets, software and other records are left out, so they don't swamp the counts.

  • The newest days keep growing. Databases index papers over several days, so yesterday always looks low at first. The rankings use the newest day that is mostly complete, and the trend chart shows unfinished days with a dashed line.
  • Countries can share a paper. A paper with authors in China and Germany counts once for each, which is why country shares add up to more than 100%.
  • The 1st of the month has a spike. Many journals give only a month of publication, which is stored as the 1st.

What's next

Alongside the daily reports, this blog will publish short analyses: trends by country and field, how open access is growing, and stories behind the most-cited papers. If you'd like a topic covered, let us know.

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