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United States: research output 2026

On October 24, 2026, researchers affiliated with institutions in United States published 714 research papers, ranking 2nd of 152 countries and 8.3% of the world's output that day. 178 records with a United States affiliation were added to PubMed.

Papers on Oct 24714
World rank#2
Share of world output8.3%
Last 7 days12,082
Last 30 days68,464
Daily average (30 days)2,361

Last 30 days

2026-09-26: 1,240 papers2026-09-27: 921 papers2026-09-28: 2,853 papers2026-09-29: 3,576 papers2026-09-30: 3,574 papers2026-10-01: 11,139 papers2026-10-02: 2,139 papers2026-10-03: 874 papers2026-10-04: 716 papers2026-10-05: 2,472 papers2026-10-06: 2,472 papers2026-10-07: 2,766 papers2026-10-08: 2,552 papers2026-10-09: 2,565 papers2026-10-10: 1,270 papers2026-10-11: 895 papers2026-10-12: 2,428 papers2026-10-13: 2,830 papers2026-10-14: 2,944 papers2026-10-15: 2,775 papers2026-10-16: 2,433 papers2026-10-17: 948 papers2026-10-18: 654 papers2026-10-19: 2,150 papers2026-10-20: 2,071 papers2026-10-21: 2,420 papers2026-10-22: 2,161 papers2026-10-23: 1,912 papers2026-10-24: 714 papers

Most active institutions

  1. Harvard University · 31 papers
  2. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 23 papers
  3. University of Phoenix · 21 papers
  4. University of California, San Francisco · 19 papers
  5. University of Washington · 19 papers

Most-cited scientists

  1. Ahmedin Jemal · American Cancer Society · 742,047 citations
  2. Eric S. Lander · Broad Institute · 668,036 citations
  3. Kaiming He · Google DeepMind (United Kingdom) · 591,105 citations
  4. Christopher J L Murray · University of Washington · 572,865 citations
  5. Rebecca L. Siegel · American Cancer Society · 565,687 citations

Papers per day

DatePapers
Sat, Oct 24714
Fri, Oct 231,912
Thu, Oct 222,161
Wed, Oct 212,420
Tue, Oct 202,071
Mon, Oct 192,150
Sun, Oct 18654
Sat, Oct 17948
Fri, Oct 162,433
Thu, Oct 152,775
Wed, Oct 142,944
Tue, Oct 132,830
Mon, Oct 122,428
Sun, Oct 11895

Counts are papers (articles, reviews, preprints, letters, conference papers and book chapters) with at least one author affiliated with an institution in United States, by publication date, from OpenAlex. Recent days keep rising for a week as journals report their papers.

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