Bibliometric indicators, by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in OECD
OECD: Bibliometric indicators, by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was 118,504 Scientific publications in 2024. ▲ Rising
Bibliometric indicators, by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in OECD, 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 OECD stood at 118,504 Scientific publications.
The figure is up 2.5% on the previous year and up 23.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) in OECD peaked at 119,056 Scientific publications in 2021 and was at its lowest, 95,689 Scientific publications, in 2015.
That places OECD 1st out of 48 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 101,099 Scientific publications | 95,689 Scientific publications | 107,343 Scientific publications | 5 |
| 2020s | 116,231 Scientific publications | 112,441 Scientific publications | 119,056 Scientific publications | 5 |
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Frequently asked questions
- What is bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) in OECD?
- Bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) in OECD was 118,504 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 OECD?
- The highest recorded value was 119,056 Scientific publications in 2021.
- What is the lowest bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) recorded in OECD?
- The lowest recorded value was 95,689 Scientific publications in 2015.
- How does OECD rank for bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs)?
- OECD ranks 1st out of 48 countries with data for 2024.
- Is bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) rising or falling in OECD?
- Over the last ten years it is up 23.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this OECD 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.