Sunday, March 29, 2009

Scientific article production by country and by language

Scientific articles by authors of several countries over world total, 2005*

United States 28.94
Japan 7.82
United Kingdom 6.42
Germany 6.22
China 5.86
France 4.27
Canada 3.64
Italy 3.47
Spain 2.58
Korea 2.31
Australia 2.25
India 2.06
Russia 2.03
Netherlands 1.96
Taiwan 1.53
Sweden 1.41
Brazil 1.39
Switzerland 1.23

Source: National Science Foundation, Science & Engineering Indicators, 2008.

*By country and not by language.

Scientific journals by language

language number of titles and percentage of total

English 28,131 titles, 45.24%
German 6,848 11.01%
Chinese (Mandarin) 4,047 6.51%
Spanish 3,522 5.66%
French 3,074 4.94%
Japanese 2,149 3.46%
Italian 1,860 2.99%
Polish 1,060 1.7%
Portuguese 1,055 1.7%
Dutch 922 1.48%
Russian 808 1.3%

Source: Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, "academic/scholarly" section, 2007.
It's the "the most comprehensive directory available worldwide".