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Hello fellow journalologists, At the start of the year I created a video that looked back over the past 25 years of scholarly publishing (2000 to 2024). Now that we’re in Q4 of 2025 I thought I’d crunch the numbers again and outline this year’s high-level trends. It won’t surprise you to hear that 2025 has been another year of rapid article growth. Figure 1 shows the volume of research articles published between 2000 and 2025. The 2025 number is a guesstimate, calculated using a simple run rate.