# 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
<img src="./openalex_stats.png" width="600" alt="OpenAlex Subfields Distribution">