Bibliometric indicators, by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in G20
G20: Bibliometric indicators, by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was 206,467 Scientific publications in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bibliometric indicators, by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in G20, 2015–2024
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Scientific publications.
Analysis
In 2024, bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) in G20 stood at 206,467 Scientific publications. That is the highest value across all 10 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 6.2% on the previous year and up 64.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) in G20 peaked at 206,467 Scientific publications in 2024 and was at its lowest, 125,510 Scientific publications, in 2015.
Bibliometric indicators, by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in G20, year by year
| Year | Scientific publications | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 125,510 Scientific publications | — |
| 2016 | 131,548 Scientific publications | +4.8% |
| 2017 | 138,014 Scientific publications | +4.9% |
| 2018 | 146,261 Scientific publications | +6.0% |
| 2019 | 157,366 Scientific publications | +7.6% |
| 2020 | 168,488 Scientific publications | +7.1% |
| 2021 | 182,212 Scientific publications | +8.1% |
| 2022 | 186,589 Scientific publications | +2.4% |
| 2023 | 194,420 Scientific publications | +4.2% |
| 2024 | 206,467 Scientific publications | +6.2% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 139,740 Scientific publications | 125,510 Scientific publications | 157,366 Scientific publications | 5 |
| 2020s | 187,635 Scientific publications | 168,488 Scientific publications | 206,467 Scientific publications | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) in G20?
- Bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) in G20 was 206,467 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 G20?
- The highest recorded value was 206,467 Scientific publications in 2024.
- What is the lowest bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) recorded in G20?
- The lowest recorded value was 125,510 Scientific publications in 2015.
- How does G20 rank for bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs)?
- G20 ranks 1st out of 3 regions with data for 2024.
- Is bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) rising or falling in G20?
- Over the last ten years it is up 64.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this G20 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.