Bibliometric indicators: Fractional counts of scientific publications in Austria
Austria: Bibliometric indicators: Fractional counts of scientific publications was 1,306 Scientific publications in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bibliometric indicators, by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Austria, 2015–2024
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Scientific publications.
Analysis
Austria recorded 1,306 Scientific publications for bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) in 2024. That is the highest value across all 10 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.4% on the previous year and up 29.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) in Austria peaked at 1,306 Scientific publications in 2024 and was at its lowest, 978.6 Scientific publications, in 2016.
Austria ranks 22nd of 48 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
Bibliometric indicators: Fractional counts of scientific publications in Austria, year by year
| Year | Scientific publications | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,011 Scientific publications | — |
| 2016 | 978.6 Scientific publications | -3.2% |
| 2017 | 1,038 Scientific publications | +6.1% |
| 2018 | 1,003 Scientific publications | -3.5% |
| 2019 | 1,131 Scientific publications | +12.8% |
| 2020 | 1,191 Scientific publications | +5.3% |
| 2021 | 1,288 Scientific publications | +8.1% |
| 2022 | 1,263 Scientific publications | -1.9% |
| 2023 | 1,302 Scientific publications | +3.0% |
| 2024 | 1,306 Scientific publications | +0.4% |
Austria compared with similar countries
- Austria's 1,306 Scientific publications is above the median for high income countries, which is 1,128 Scientific publications, 1.2× the median. (33 countries reporting)
- Austria's 1,306 Scientific publications is above the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 1,040 Scientific publications, 1.3× the median. (24 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1,032 Scientific publications | 978.6 Scientific publications | 1,131 Scientific publications | 5 |
| 2020s | 1,270 Scientific publications | 1,191 Scientific publications | 1,306 Scientific publications | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) in Austria?
- Bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) in Austria was 1,306 Scientific publications in 2024, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) recorded in Austria?
- The highest recorded value was 1,306 Scientific publications in 2024.
- What is the lowest bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) recorded in Austria?
- The lowest recorded value was 978.6 Scientific publications in 2016.
- How does Austria rank for bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs)?
- Austria ranks 22nd out of 48 countries with data for 2024.
- Is bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) rising or falling in Austria?
- Over the last ten years it is up 29.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Austria data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Bibliometric indicators, by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — Fractional counts of scientific publications. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
This dataset presents trends in the total number of scientific publications relevant to societal goals, as proxied by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework, expressed in fractional counts, for the 2015–2024 period. Coverage includes OECD member and accession countries, key partners (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and South Africa), and other selected non-OECD economies. This is an experimental indicator, developed under the OECD’s Fundstat initiative to improve evidence on the directionality and societal relevance of research and development (R&D) activities, by linking scientific output to 17 SDGs or none. To produce this indicator, the OECD developed a probabilistic AI-assisted classification model that identifies the SDG relevance of scientific publications based on their titles and abstracts. The approach builds on insights from the OECD International Survey of Science (ISSA2021), in which researchers reported which SDG their research contributed to. Using these responses, a labelled dataset was created to fine-tune SciBERT, a large language model (LLM) pre-trained on scientific literature, enabling it to predict the probability of relevance of a given text to each of the 17 SDGs, or to none. The trained classifier is then applied to publication titles and abstracts from the Scopus Custom Data. Publication counts are fractionalised across countries and aggregated annually for comparability. For further information on the methodology, see: Aristodemou, L., et al. (2025), “Assessing the direction of R&D funding towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a new classifier and the OECD Fundstat infrastructure”, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers. Source: OECD Bibliometric Indicators, calculations based on Elsevier's Scopus Custom Data, Elsevier, Version 1.2026. Please cite as: OECD (2026), OECD Bibliometric indicators, OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Statistics, http://oe.cd/scientometrics, accessed on xx/xx/xxxx.