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Global scientific publication output experienced an exponential increase between 2000 and 2025.

Total DOI-indexed articles rose from 1,508,675 in 2000 to 7,233,887 in 2025, representing a 4.8-fold increase (+379.5% cumulative growth) with a fitted exponential rate of 6.4% per year.

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Total DOI-indexed articles rose from 1,508,675 in 2000 to 7,233,887 in 2025, representing a 4.8-fold increase and +379.5% cumulative growth, with a fitted exponential rate of 6.4%/yr.

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Total DOI-indexed articles rose from 1,508,675 in 2000 to 7,233,887 in 2025, a 4.8× increase and +379.5% cumulative growth. The fitted exponential rate is 6.4%/yr
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The research design retrieves data through programmatic API queries covering the explicit time period 2000 through 2025 using a reproducible pipeline.

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Code repository: https://github.com/natalienkhalil/paper-stats
File: README.md

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