United Kingdom: research output 2026
On October 24, 2026, researchers affiliated with institutions in United Kingdom published 248 research papers, ranking 5th of 152 countries and 2.9% of the world's output that day. 91 records with a United Kingdom affiliation were added to PubMed.
Papers on Oct 24248
World rank#5
Share of world output2.9%
Last 7 days4,069
Last 30 days22,134
Daily average (30 days)763
Last 30 days
Most active institutions
- University of London · 41 papers
- University College London · 22 papers
- University of Cambridge · 16 papers
- University of Oxford · 16 papers
- King's College London · 14 papers
Most-cited scientists
- Kaiming He · Google DeepMind (United Kingdom) · 591,105 citations
- George Davey Smith · University of Bristol · 419,165 citations
- Julian P. T. Higgins · University of Bristol · 387,341 citations
- Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta · Aga Khan University · 380,856 citations
- Richard Michael Durbin · University of Cambridge · 378,254 citations
Papers per day
| Date | Papers |
|---|---|
| Sat, Oct 24 | 248 |
| Fri, Oct 23 | 634 |
| Thu, Oct 22 | 791 |
| Wed, Oct 21 | 811 |
| Tue, Oct 20 | 670 |
| Mon, Oct 19 | 703 |
| Sun, Oct 18 | 212 |
| Sat, Oct 17 | 323 |
| Fri, Oct 16 | 752 |
| Thu, Oct 15 | 1,176 |
| Wed, Oct 14 | 979 |
| Tue, Oct 13 | 865 |
| Mon, Oct 12 | 844 |
| Sun, Oct 11 | 299 |
Counts are papers (articles, reviews, preprints, letters, conference papers and book chapters) with at least one author affiliated with an institution in United Kingdom, by publication date, from OpenAlex. Recent days keep rising for a week as journals report their papers.
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