China surpassed the United States in absolute publication output and global share in 2022.
Open GitHub ↗In 2022, China produced 891,175 articles (15.6% global share) compared to the US's 794,008 articles (13.9%). By 2025, China produced 1.18M articles (16.3%) versus the US's 947K (13.1%).
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In 2022, China overtook the US in number of articles (891,175 vs 794,008) and global share (15.6% vs 13.9%), and in 2025 produced 1.24x as many articles (1,177,692 vs 947,239), with China's global share rising from 1.8% in 2000 to 16.3% in 2025, and the US falling from 22.3% to 13.1%.
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China is now the world's largest producer (1.18M articles, 16.3% of global share) and the US has fallen to second in both absolute volume and global share (947K, 13.1%).
In 2022, China overtook the US in number of articles (891,175 vs 794,008) and global share (15.6% vs 13.9%). In 2025, it produces 1.24× as many articles (1,177,692 vs 947,239)
- The data extracted from OpenAlex provides specific article counts for China and the US across the years 2000, 2022, and 2025, matching the numerical values cited in the claim.
- The claims are properly scoped to DOI-indexed articles within the OpenAlex database over the specified 2000–2025 period.
- The observational bibliometric design is appropriate for tracking historical publication counts and metadata trends from the OpenAlex database.
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- https://github.com/natalienkhalil/paper-stats
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- README.md
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