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Article 50 million: an estimate of the number of scholarly articles in existence
Author(s) -
JINHA Arif E.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1087/20100308
Subject(s) - econometrics , history , political science , economics
ABSTRACT How many scholarly research articles are there in existence? Journal articles first appeared in 1665, and the cumulative total is estimated here to have passed 50 million in 2009. This sum was arrived at based on published figures for global annual output for 2006, and analyses of annual output and growth rates published in the last decade.