| ▲ | NoMoreNicksLeft 4 hours ago | |
>There are on the order of 100 million papers [reference 2] published to date. Does anyone else feel as if this (admittedly rough) estimate is off by an order of magnitude? | ||
| ▲ | rdlw 30 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
If 1% of the last 10 billion people to live were academics and published on average 5 papers (many only had one, i.e. their dissertation/thesis, but a small fraction will have had dozens or hundreds), that comes to 500 million. I'm curious, do you think it's an order of magnitude too low or too high? | ||
| ▲ | cnees an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
OpenAlex has 240M. https://docs.openalex.org/api-entities/works CORE has 431M. https://core.ac.uk/data Crossref has 165M. https://www.crossref.org/blog/2025-public-data-file-now-avai... These datasets are all biased towards work published in the digital age, but it's important to note that work is coming out much faster now than it used to. | ||