Hi there, this is a general though fundamental question: how many papers were published in recent years?
Many scientometric papers provided this kind of information but limited to specific domain (e.g., nursery, acupuncture) or per single country (e.g., UK, Bangladesh). However, some data on the global trends would be fundamental in bibliometric analyses to correctely identify and interpret specific trends.
I wonder if reports or papers are available to quantify the global publication trends, possibly with a focus on world regions or most active Countries. For instance, I expect that an increase of publication after the year 2000 and, even more, in last 10 years, is a trend involving all the disciplines. Similarly, I can expect that United States and other English-speaking Countries are always dominant in bibliometric researches based on English databases.
I will appreaciate your help on this question.
Best, Davide
Hi Davide,
did you tried the Viz Tools (http://www.scimagojr.com/viztools.php) from Scimago Journal and Country Rank.
All the best
Nuno
Thank you Nuno,
this is a nice data visualization tool to have an overview of the journals.
I was thinking more of something like this https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/04/06/scientific-reports-overtakes-plos-one-as-largest-megajournal/ but for disciplinary or regional trends.
Hence, I used and WOS ¹ (both all databases and the core collection) and Scopus ² to retrievev at least the raw data on the publication trends, in agriculture and agronomy domains. I wonder if scientometric publications analysed these trends so far, or if this is still a work to do.
Best, Davide
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Still searching for a complete answer, I found anyway some estimate, at least concerning the English-language scholarly: The Number of Scholarly Documents on the Public Web, Khabsa & Giles 2014
The number of scholarly documents available on the web is estimated using capture/recapture methods by studying the coverage of two major academic search engines: Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search. Our estimates show that at least 114 million English-language scholarly documents are accessible on the web, of which Google Scholar has nearly 100 million. Of these, we estimate that at least 27 million (24%) are freely available since they do not require a subscription or payment of any kind. In addition, at a finer scale, we also estimate the number of scholarly documents on the web for fifteen fields: Agricultural Science, Arts and Humanities, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics and Business, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Geosciences, Material Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, Social Sciences, and Multidisciplinary, as defined by Microsoft Academic Search. In addition, we show that among these fields the percentage of documents defined as freely available varies significantly, i.e., from 12 to 50%.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0093949
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