List of countries by number of scientific and technical journal articles

Scientific and technical journal articles refer to the number of scientific and engineering articles published in the following fields: physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, clinical medicine, biomedical research, engineering and technology, and earth and space sciences. Gap-filled total. Scientific and technical article counts are from journals classified by the Institute for Scientific Information's Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI).[1]

Rank	Country	Articles published in 2016
1	China	426,165
2	United States	408,985
3	India	110,320
4	Germany	103,122
5	United Kingdom	97,527
6	Japan	96,536
7	France	69,431
8	Italy	69,125
9	South Korea	63,063
10	Russia	59,134
11	Canada	57,356
12	Brazil	53,607
13	Spain	52,821
14	Australia	51,068
15	Iran	40,975
16	Turkey	33,902
17	Poland	32,978
18	Netherlands	29,949
19	Switzerland	21,128
20	Malaysia	20,332
21	Sweden	19,937
22	Belgium	16,394
23	Czech Republic	15,963
24	Mexico	14,529
25	Portugal	13,773
26	Denmark	13,471
27	Austria	12,366
28	Israel	11,893
29	South Africa	11,881
30	Singapore	11,254
31	Egypt	10807
32	Norway	10,726
33	Greece	10,725
34	Finland	10,545
35	Romania	10,194
36	Thailand	9,582
37	Saudi Arabia	9,232
38	Pakistan	9,181
39	Argentina	8,648
40	Indonesia	7,729
41	New Zealand	7,465
42	Ukraine	7,375
43	Ireland	6,834
44	Chile	6,746
45	Hungary	6,208
46	Colombia	6,121
47	Slovakia	5,359
48	Tunisia	5,266
49	Serbia	5,052
50	Algeria	4,447
51	Morocco	4,063
52	Croatia	4,056
53	Nigeria	3,822
54	Slovenia	3,407
55	Vietnam	2,961
56	Bulgaria	2,559
57	Bangladesh	2,546
58	Lithuania	2,181
59	United Arab Emirates	2,181
60	Jordan	1,652
61	Philippines	1,569
62	Kazakhstan	1,564
63	Estonia	1,482
64	Lebanon	1,398
65	Qatar	1,311
66	Latvia	1,257
67	Iraq	1,227
68	Ethiopia	1,121
69	Ecuador	1,096
70	Cuba	1,045
71	Sri Lanka	1,033
72	Peru	1,008
73	Kenya	987
74	Ghana	982
75	Cyprus	973
76	Belarus	937
77	Venezuela	855
78	Luxembourg	818
79	Uruguay	809
80	Oman	795
81	Kuwait	739
82	Cameroon	670
83	Iceland	652
84	Georgia	579
85	Uganda	573
86	Puerto Rico	566
87	Nepal	549
88	Tanzania	539
89	Armenia	521
90	Bosnia and Herzegovina	509
91	North Macedonia	483
92	Azerbaijan	480
93	Costa Rica	377
94	Sudan	369
95	Uzbekistan	357
96	Senegal	353
97	Malta	320
98	Zimbabwe	298
99	Moldova	295
100	Syria	273
101	Montenegro	258
102	Botswana	227
103	Burkina Faso	222
104	Brunei	217
105	Bahrain	211
106	Malawi	203
107	Albania	191
108	Kosovo	189
109	Trinidad and Tobago	185
110	Zambia	179
111	Ivory Coast	178
112	Benin	167
113	Panama	159
114	Mauritius	156
115	Fiji	155
116	Libya	139
117	Jamaica	135
118	Cambodia	117
119	Rwanda	115
120	Democratic Republic of the Congo	113
121	Mongolia	112
122	Yemen	111
122	Myanmar	111
124	Namibia	108
125	Madagascar	103
126	Kyrgyzstan	101
	Mozambique	101
128	Paraguay	96
129	Bolivia	95
130	Mali	87
131	Laos	85
	Guatemala	85
133	Afghanistan	80
134	Republic of the Congo	78
135	Togo	76
136	Gabon	59
137	Niger	56
138	Papua New Guinea	54
139	Barbados	48
	Sierra Leone	48
	Tajikistan	48
142	Gambia	47
143	North Korea	44
144	Bhutan	40
	Monaco	40
146	Angola	39
147	Guinea	38
148	Nicaragua	36
149	Liechtenstein	35
150	Grenada	34
151	Honduras	33
152	Eswatini	31
153	Dominican Republic	30
	Haiti	30
155	Central African Republic	29
	El Salvador	29
157	Greenland	26
158	Lesotho	23
159	Suriname	21
	Saint Kitts and Nevis	21
161	Mauritania	20
162	Liberia	17
163	Bahamas	14
	Solomon Islands	14
	Guyana	14
	Vanuatu	14
167	Seychelles	12
	Chad	12
	Guinea-Bissau	12
170	Burundi	11
171	Eritrea	9
	Timor-Leste	8
	Cape Verde	8
	Andorra	8
	Antigua and Barbuda	8
	Dominica	8
	San Marino	8
178	Equatorial Guinea	7
179	Belize	6
180	Samoa	5
	Maldives	5
	Saint Lucia	5
	Comoros	5
184	Djibouti	4
	Turkmenistan	4
186	Somalia	3
	Palau	3
	Federated States of Micronesia	3
	South Sudan	3
191	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2
	Kiribati	2
	Tonga	2
194	Marshall Islands	1
	São Tomé and Príncipe	1
	Nauru	1
197	Tuvalu	0
	World	2,264,567