Bibliometric indicators, by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Korea
Korea: Bibliometric indicators, by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was 4,380 Scientific publications in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bibliometric indicators, by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Korea, 2015–2024
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Scientific publications.
Analysis
The most recent figure for bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) in Korea is 4,380 Scientific publications, measured in 2024. That is the highest value across all 10 years on record.
The figure is up 6.8% on the previous year and up 61.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) in Korea peaked at 4,380 Scientific publications in 2024 and was at its lowest, 2,705 Scientific publications, in 2015.
Bibliometric indicators, by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Korea, year by year
| Year | Scientific publications | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,705 Scientific publications | — |
| 2016 | 2,799 Scientific publications | +3.5% |
| 2017 | 2,897 Scientific publications | +3.5% |
| 2018 | 3,060 Scientific publications | +5.6% |
| 2019 | 3,347 Scientific publications | +9.4% |
| 2020 | 3,579 Scientific publications | +6.9% |
| 2021 | 3,849 Scientific publications | +7.5% |
| 2022 | 3,927 Scientific publications | +2.0% |
| 2023 | 4,102 Scientific publications | +4.5% |
| 2024 | 4,380 Scientific publications | +6.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 2,962 Scientific publications | 2,705 Scientific publications | 3,347 Scientific publications | 5 |
| 2020s | 3,967 Scientific publications | 3,579 Scientific publications | 4,380 Scientific publications | 5 |
Countries ranked near Korea
More public sector data for Korea
- Government budget allocations for R&D — Government Allocations for R&D 28,685 US dollars, PPP converted (2024)
- Annual government non-financial accounts and key indicators -37.48 million National currency (2024)
- Annual government non-financial accounts and key indicators (Revenue) 28.43 million National currency (2024)
- Annual government non-financial accounts and key indicators 115.94 million National currency (2024)
- Annual government non-financial accounts and key indicators (Revenue) 858.80 million National currency (2024)
- Annual government non-financial accounts and key indicators 169.17 million National currency (2024)
- NAAG Chapter 6: Government — Compensation of employees by general 6.6 Percentage of GDP (2024)
- Annual government expenditure by function (COFOG) — Gross fixed 113.41 million National currency (2023)
- Annual government expenditure by function (COFOG) — Gross capital 117.77 million National currency (2023)
- Annual government expenditure by function (COFOG) — Compensation of 159.16 million National currency (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) in Korea?
- Bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) in Korea was 4,380 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 Korea?
- The highest recorded value was 4,380 Scientific publications in 2024.
- What is the lowest bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) recorded in Korea?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,705 Scientific publications in 2015.
- How does Korea rank for bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs)?
- Korea ranks 3rd out of 12 groups with data for 2024.
- Is bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) rising or falling in Korea?
- Over the last ten years it is up 61.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Korea 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.