| # Medical-Commons | |
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| Medical-Commons is the largest dataset of medical content under free licenses or open data program collected by Pleias. | |
| It includes three different collection: | |
| * International scientific collection of 2M articles from OpenAlex. | |
| * French scientific collection of XM articles, reports and PhD theses from French institutional repositories. | |
| * Administration collection from health and medical agencies, for now limited to France but with a planned Europe-wide expansion. | |
| The repositories give access to the complete available metadata as well as a sample of ressources. | |
| # OpenAlex Collection Statistics | |
| ## Overview | |
| This section presents detailed statistics **for the OpenAlex collection** within the Medical-Commons dataset. This international scientific collection represents just one of the three collections in Medical-Commons, containing 2.6 million medical articles under free licenses or open data programs. | |
| ## OpenAlex Collection Statistics | |
| | Metric | Value (OpenAlex Collection Only) | | |
| |--------|----------------------------------| | |
| | Total Papers | 2,623,673 | | |
| | Total Words | 21,328,187,404 | | |
| | Average Words per Paper | 8,129.1 | | |
| ## Top 10 Medical Subfields in OpenAlex Collection | |
| | Subfield | Papers in OpenAlex | % of OpenAlex Total | Words in OpenAlex | Avg Words per Paper | | |
| |----------|-------------------|---------------------|-------------------|---------------------| | |
| | Epidemiology | 239,307 | 9.12% | 2,104,074,798 | 8,792.5 | | |
| | Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 237,052 | 9.04% | 1,993,696,484 | 8,410.0 | | |
| | Surgery | 218,569 | 8.33% | 1,562,899,038 | 7,150.0 | | |
| | Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 188,053 | 7.17% | 1,485,806,299 | 7,901.0 | | |
| | Oncology | 186,583 | 7.11% | 1,355,465,028 | 7,265.0 | | |
| | Infectious Diseases | 162,401 | 6.19% | 1,362,069,806 | 8,386.5 | | |
| | Physiology | 147,703 | 5.63% | 1,308,562,705 | 8,859.4 | | |
| | Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 112,962 | 4.31% | 969,602,006 | 8,583.4 | | |
| | Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging | 105,846 | 4.03% | 928,390,321 | 8,771.1 | | |
| | Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 102,518 | 3.91% | 764,365,895 | 7,455.9 | | |
| ## OpenAlex Collection Distribution Visualization | |
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| *Note: The above statistics represent only the OpenAlex international scientific collection, which is one component of the larger Medical-Commons project by Pleias.* |