Draft, not yet released. In stewardship review. Not indexed until the first approved release.

Readings from the other desks

The science and engineering baseline is read through each steward’s lens, then once as a whole. Each lens is a projection of reviewed findings, not a separate argument. The other desks’ own editions of this subject are listed first, as cross-references, not copies.

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Contents
  1. ·Edition home
  2. ·Executive summary
  3. 1Science is where the frontier is made
  4. 2Key findings
  5. 3Systems and sectors at baseline
  6. 4Risks and capability
  7. 5Loss of trust in the research record during a fast-moving emergency
  8. 6Readings from the other desks
    1. 6.1 The other desks’ editions of this subject
    2. 6.2 Three lenses
    3. 6.3 Standards, Academy and steward contributions
    4. 6.4 GCRI reading: the model card
    5. 6.5 Global Risks Forum reading: editorial essays
    6. 6.6 Global Risks Alliance reading: 2027 science and engineering readiness pack
    7. 6.7 Nexus Standards reading: standards and regulatory watch
    8. 6.8 Risk Academy reading: literature and evidence review, science and assessments
  9. 7The 2027 agenda
  10. 8Systems in depth
  11. AMethodology
  12. BData appendix
  13. CReferences and record
  14. ·Complete edition, for print

6.1The other desks’ editions of this subject

Federation: each desk writes its own edition for the subjects in its remit. Until a desk releases, its edition shows its frame and the reading this edition printed for it.

DeskEditionStateIdentifier
GCRI Systems EvidenceNo edition of this subject at this desk in the 2026 Baseline cycleNot in this cycle
GRF Public DeliberationOutside this desk’s remitNot in remit
GRA Capital ReadinessNo edition of this subject at this desk in the 2026 Baseline cycleNot in this cycle
Standards ProgressNo edition of this subject at this desk in the 2026 Baseline cycleNot in this cycle
Academy CapabilityNo edition of this subject at this desk in the 2026 Baseline cycleNot in this cycle
Index MeasurementOutside this desk’s remitNot in remit

6.2Three lenses

One edition, read by each steward. The lens of this site comes first.

GCRI · KEY T

Technical Truth

The evidence supports reading science and engineering as the discovery layer of the WEFH+B system. Funding, people and compute are concentrated, output keeps rising and the record is under integrity pressure. Evidence is strongest for spending, output and capacity, and weakest for replication, open-access reuse and research security.

DAT-003 · GOV-005 · INF-008 · SYS-012

GRF · KEY M

Public Meaning

For most people science arrives as a medicine, a forecast or a news story. The baseline asks that public debate keep in view that the researchers who make the results are very unevenly spread, and that the record can be wrong and corrected.

DAT-003 · HLT-011 · GOV-005

GRA · KEY F

Capital Meaning

Readiness implications only. R&D spending is large, venture investment was USD 354 billion in 2024 and public programmes are multi-year124. These show where finance-readiness evidence will matter. Nothing here is advice, a rating or an authorisation.

FIN-001 · FIN-002

NEXUS

Synthesis

The research system is well measured at the level of spending, people and output and thinly measured at the level of replication, reuse and integrity. The 2027 programme should bind regional capacity evidence, test the trust shock, and map long-lead facilities before they become gaps.

SYS-012 · F-01 · F-04

6.3Standards, Academy and steward contributions

How the Nexus Standards drafts, the Risk Academy and the three stewards feed each quarterly edition for science and engineering. The standards are a preparatory working draft (2026) and are cited as drafts, never as adopted standards.

Table 6.1The quarterly rhythm every edition follows
QuarterEditionQuestionBoundary
Q1State and AgendaWhat matters this year, and what is the starting position?observed baseline stays distinct from planned work
Q2Evidence and BuildWhat new evidence and capability exist?a configured capability is not a validated result
Q3Stress Test and ReadinessWhat do scenarios and tests show?simulated loss or performance is not observed impact
Q4Annual Synthesis and RenewalWhat changed in the year, and what renews?release follows review, not event publicity deadlines
Table 6.2Who contributes what each quarter
Steward or bodyRoleContribution route
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI Canada)Lead Institution and Consortium Secretariat; publisher of record; technical truth (key T)science and practice communities · GCRI gateway
The Global Risks Forum (GRF)leadership, dialogue and the Universe programme; public meaning (key M)policy, Universe and national adoption · GRF gateway
The Global Risks Alliance (GRA)finance, insurance and development readiness; capital meaning (key F)finance and insurance · GRA gateway
Nexus Standardspreparatory drafts on vocabulary, hazards, indicators and methodsStandards site · working groups HAZ, IND, MTH, FIN, AI
Risk Academylearning pathways tied to the agenda questionsAcademy gateway · learning by review
Reports sector desksscience chapter inputs: GCRI evidence, GRA readiness, NXS standards, RA capabilitysector editorial board

Standards drafts used in this edition

  • Risk vocabulary NRS-C1 (424 terms) for terms in the glossary
  • Hazard atlas NHS-1 1.1.0 (905 hazards in 120 families) for risk objects
  • Seven risk classes: global, catastrophic, existential, emerging, planetary, exponential, frontier-tech

Standards calendar to watch

  • Founding calls from 20 October 2026; working groups meet from 5 November 2026
  • Inaugural Global Standards Council session, 12 January 2027
  • Quarterly reviews in March, June, September and December, aligned with each edition

6.4GCRI reading: the model card

GCRI’s reading of this edition is its model card: what the national model is, what it computes and where it stops. It is printed in full in Annex A, with the methods it belongs to. Annex A, methodology

6.5Global Risks Forum reading: editorial essays

Four signed essays by the Reports editorial team set out the positions this edition takes. They are interpretation, labelled as such; the evidence they draw on is in the findings register.

Every health, food and climate decision rests on results made somewhere else. Treating research as a line in a budget understates how it carries knowledge between systems. This edition asks where a failure in the research record goes next.

EDITORIAL ESSAY · 01

Science is a coupling, not a sector

Spending, researchers, instruments and data are four different things, and each is concentrated. Measuring the whole chain is the first step toward seeing which regions can use the frontier and which only receive it.

EDITORIAL ESSAY · 02

Capacity is wider than spending

Papers, preprints and archives work like shared infrastructure for health and policy. Retraction waves and paper-mill case studies show that it needs maintenance, and that the share affected is not yet known.

EDITORIAL ESSAY · 03

The record is now an infrastructure

AI is a growing share of research output, and agents still reach only about half of expert scores on research tasks. Compute has doubled about every six months for a decade. The question for 2027 is how the record keeps its quality as the work speeds up.

EDITORIAL ESSAY · 04

AI changes the work, not only the tools

6.6Global Risks Alliance reading: 2027 science and engineering readiness pack

The registers that open the 2027 global cycle. At baseline each is initialised from this edition.

Table 6.32027 science and engineering readiness pack
ItemRegisterState at baselineFirst 2027 entry
E1Science and Engineering Frontier risk state deltabaseline set by this editionchanges against the baseline
E2WEFH+B state deltafive global system readings setindicator updates and freshness
E3Agenda and Portfolio movementeight agenda items · 6 proposed objectsadmission decisions
E4Federation delivery registernational chapters in preparationnational chapters
E5Consortium capability registernational consortia formingfirst contributions
E6Leadership questions and challengesnone yetfirst challenge log
E7Foundry technical statenational environments preparedfirst federation cut
E8Publication candidatestwelve findings carried forwardPUBLISH · HOLD dispositions
E9Universe readinessone candidate missionadmission and role spine
E10Correction registernonefirst federation-wide cycle

Publication dispositions

  • Publish
  • Hold
  • Needs evidence
  • Restricted
  • Superseded

6.7Nexus Standards reading: standards and regulatory watch

Instruments and published guidance that shape the systems in this edition, by status on the retrieval date. Nexus standards drafts used for terms and evidence classes are cited as preparatory working draft (2026). The edition assesses no one’s compliance.

  • ADOPTED
  • PUBLISHED · GUIDANCE
  • PUBLISHED · VOLUNTARY
  • NOT VERIFIED
Table 6.4Standards and regulatory watch
InstrumentBodyScopeStatusRelevance
UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science25UNESCO193 Member StatesADOPTED 2021open science
UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI26UNESCO193 Member StatesADOPTED 2021AI ethics
UNESCO Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers37UNESCOMember StatesADOPTED 2017 · NOT VERIFIEDresearcher status
WHO global guidance framework for the responsible use of the life sciences18WHOglobalPUBLISHED · GUIDANCEdual-use research
Independent scientific panel and dialogue on AI (resolution 79/325)28UN General AssemblyglobalADOPTED 2025 · NOT VERIFIEDAI governance
Pact for the Future and Global Digital Compact (resolution 79/1)29UN General AssemblyglobalADOPTED 2024 · NOT VERIFIEDdigital governance
Regulation (EU) 2024/168930European UnionEUPUBLISHED IN OFFICIAL JOURNAL 2024 · NOT VERIFIEDAI rules
Framework Convention on AI31Council of EuropeCouncil of EuropeADOPTED 2024 · NOT VERIFIEDAI governance
ISO/IEC 42001 AI management system32ISO and IECglobalPUBLISHED · VOLUNTARYAI governance
ISO/IEC 17025 testing and calibration laboratories33ISO and IECglobalPUBLISHED · VOLUNTARYlaboratory quality
Declaration on Research Assessment38DORA signatoriesglobalPUBLISHED · VOLUNTARYresearch assessment
Biological Weapons Convention41United NationsStates PartiesIN FORCE 1975 · NOT VERIFIEDprohibition
Nexus evidence classes and finding grammarNexus StandardsNexus programmepreparatory working draft (2026)terms and evidence classes

Changed since 2024

  • The UN General Assembly established an independent scientific panel on AI and a Global Dialogue in 202528
  • Stanford HAI added a science chapter to the AI Index for the first time in 20269
  • The TOP500 list of June 2026 added a fifth exascale system4

To watch in 2027

  • First outputs of the UN scientific panel on AI and the Geneva dialogue in 202628
  • Implementation of the EU rules on AI that touch research use30
  • National plans to apply the UNESCO recommendations on open science and AI ethics2526

6.8Risk Academy reading: literature and evidence review, science and assessments

The review behind this edition covers science and engineering assessments, peer-reviewed science and the institutional reports that bind its findings. Systematic reviews for each agenda item begin in 2027.

Review protocol

Question
What does the published evidence establish about the world’s science and engineering enterprise and its couplings?
Sources searched
agency and academy reports; peer-reviewed science-of-science literature; statistics and open data services
Window
releases available at evidence close, 30 September 2026
Selection
sources that bind or contextualise a finding in this edition
Next step
systematic reviews for agenda items 01 to 05 in 2027
Table 6.5Peer-reviewed science and assessments
ReferenceTypeYearRoleUsed for
Richardson et al.14journal article2025supportspaper-mill fraud
Park, Leahey and Funk15journal article2023contextdisruptiveness of papers and patents
Open Science Collaboration16journal article2015supportsreplication in psychology
Abramson et al.11journal article2024supportsstructure prediction
Jumper et al.35journal article2021contextearlier structure model
Google Quantum AI10journal article2024supportserror correction
Sevilla et al.13conference paper2022supportscompute trends
Baker34news feature2016contextresearcher survey on reproducibility
Bloom et al.42journal article2020contextresearch productivity
Wuchty, Jones and Uzzi43journal article2007contextteam science
Table 6.6Institutional flagships
ReferenceIssuerYearRoleUsed for
Indicators 2026: State of U.S. S&E1NSB and NCSES2026supportsR&D, output, talent
AI Index Report 20268Stanford HAI2026supportsAI and compute
AI Index 2026, Science chapter9Stanford HAI2026supportsAI in science
UNESCO Science Report36UNESCO2021contextglobal science policy
Frascati Manual39OECD2015contextR&D definitions
World Intellectual Property Indicators40WIPO2025contextpatent filings
Co-Scientist27preprint2025contextAI hypothesis generation
Table 6.7Statistics, preprints and data services
ReferenceIssuerYearRoleUsed for
Researchers and R&D intensity2UNESCO Institute for Statistics2026supportscapacity
Development indicators3World Bank2026supportsR&D, articles, patents
Retraction notices and article counts6Crossref2026supportsintegrity and volume
Monthly submissions5arXiv2026supportspreprint volume
Preprint API7bioRxiv and medRxiv2026supportsbiology preprints
Objects launched into outer space21Our World in Data from UNOOSA2026contextspace activity
R&D data release44UNESCO Institute for Statistics2025contextearlier release
Table 6.8Instruments, governance and standards
ReferenceIssuerYearRoleUsed for
TOP500 list, June 20264TOP500 project2026supportsexascale systems
Future Circular Collider study19CERN2025supportslong-lead facility
Ignition at the National Ignition Facility20Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory2022contextlaboratory ignition
Protein Data Bank holdings22RCSB2026supportsstructure archive
GBIF occurrence records23GBIF2026supportsspecies data
AlphaFold database in 202412EMBL-EBI and partners2024supportspredicted structures
Global guidance framework on dual-use research18WHO2022supportsdual-use governance
Horizon Europe24European Commission2026contextpublic programme
Biological Weapons Convention41United Nations1972contextprohibition
Science and scientific researchers recommendation37UNESCO2017contextresearcher status

Where the evidence agrees

  • Research spending and output are concentrated in a few performers1
  • Researcher density is far lower in Sub-Saharan Africa than in Northern America2
  • Compute for notable systems has grown at an exceptional rate134

Where it is unsettled

  • What share of the research record is fraudulent or unreliable1416
  • How far AI agents can do end-to-end research927
  • Global R&D intensity: UNESCO shows 1.92% and the World Bank 2.60% for 2023, and the bases differ23

Notes

Numbers are the edition’s reference numbers, so a note reads the same in every chapter. The full list, with every source and its licence, is in Annex C. Annex C, references

  1. 1NSB (ed.), Science and Engineering Indicators 2026: The State of U.S. Science and Engineering (NSB-SEP-2026-1), May 2026, National Science Board and National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, US National Science Foundation, Alexandria. Full PDF opened; global R&D, publications, collaboration, venture investment, semiconductor and doctoral-degree figures read from the text. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  2. 24European Commission (ed.), Horizon Europe, programme page (indicative funding of EUR 93.5 billion for 2021 to 2027 after the mid-term review). European Commission, Brussels. Page read. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  3. 25UNESCO (ed.), UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, 2021, programme page (193 Member States). UNESCO, Paris. Page read; the Recommendation text itself returned an access error. Observation year 2021. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  4. 26UNESCO (ed.), Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, November 2021, programme page (193 Member States). UNESCO, Paris. Page read; the text itself was not opened. Observation year 2021. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  5. 37UNVERIFIED, not opened: UNESCO (ed.), Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers, 2017, cited from memory. UNESCO, Paris. Observation year 2017. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  6. 18WHO (ed.), Global guidance framework for the responsible use of the life sciences: mitigating biorisks and governing dual-use research, 174 pages, 2022. World Health Organization, Geneva. Publication page and overview read; the full text was not opened. Observation year 2022. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  7. 28UNVERIFIED, not opened: UN General Assembly, resolution 79/325, Terms of reference and modalities for the establishment and functioning of the Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence and the Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance, 2025; adoption in 2025 taken from search-result summaries, because the document page returned no text. United Nations, New York. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  8. 29UNVERIFIED, not opened: UN General Assembly, resolution 79/1, Pact for the Future, including the Global Digital Compact, 2024, cited from memory. United Nations, New York. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  9. 30UNVERIFIED, not opened: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence, Official Journal of the European Union, 2024, cited from memory; the publication page returned a pending response. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  10. 31UNVERIFIED, not opened: Council of Europe, Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, 2024, cited from memory. Council of Europe, Strasbourg. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  11. 32UNVERIFIED, not opened: ISO/IEC 42001:2023, Artificial intelligence management system; the catalogue page returned an access error. International Organization for Standardization, Geneva. Observation year 2023. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  12. 33UNVERIFIED, not opened: ISO/IEC 17025:2017, General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories, cited from memory. International Organization for Standardization, Geneva. Observation year 2017. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  13. 38UNVERIFIED, not opened: San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), 2012, cited from memory. DORA, San Francisco. Observation year 2012. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  14. 41UNVERIFIED, not opened: Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction, 1972, cited from memory. United Nations, Geneva. Observation year 1972. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  15. 9Stanford HAI (ed.), The 2026 AI Index Report, Chapter 5 Science, chapter page with its highlights. Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, Stanford. Page read; the chapter PDF was not opened. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  16. 4TOP500 project (ed.), TOP500 list, 67th edition, June 2026 (release text read in full for the leading systems). TOP500, Prometeus GmbH. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  17. 14Richardson, R.A.K. et al., The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122(32), 2025 (abstract and open full text record read through Europe PMC). National Academy of Sciences, Washington. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  18. 15Park, M., Leahey, E. and Funk, R.J., Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time, Nature 613, 138 to 144, 2023 (abstract read through Europe PMC; full text not opened). Springer Nature, London. Observation year 2023. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  19. 16Open Science Collaboration, Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science, Science 349(6251), aac4716, 2015 (abstract read through Europe PMC; full text not opened). American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington. Observation year 2015. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  20. 11Abramson, J. et al., Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3, Nature 630, 493 to 500, 2024 (abstract and open full text read through Europe PMC). Springer Nature, London. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  21. 35UNVERIFIED, not opened: Jumper, J. et al., Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold, Nature 596, 583 to 589, 2021, cited from memory. Springer Nature, London. No figure from it is used. Observation year 2021. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  22. 10Google Quantum AI and collaborators, Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold, arXiv 2408.13687 (full text opened) and Nature 638, 920 to 926, 2024. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  23. 13Sevilla, J. et al., Compute Trends Across Three Eras of Machine Learning, arXiv 2202.05924, 2022 (abstract page read). Cornell University, Ithaca. Observation year 2022. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  24. 34UNVERIFIED, not opened: Baker, M., 1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility, Nature 533, 452 to 454, 2016; the article is behind a subscription and only its bibliographic record was checked. Springer Nature, London. No figure from it is used. Observation year 2016. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  25. 42UNVERIFIED, not opened: Bloom, N., Jones, C.I., Van Reenen, J. and Webb, M., Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?, American Economic Review 110(4), 1104 to 1144, 2020, cited from memory. American Economic Association, Nashville. No figure from it is used. Observation year 2020. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  26. 43UNVERIFIED, not opened: Wuchty, S., Jones, B.F. and Uzzi, B., The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge, Science 316(5827), 1036 to 1039, 2007, cited from memory. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington. No figure from it is used. Observation year 2007. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  27. 8Stanford HAI (ed.), The 2026 AI Index Report, overview page with the ten top takeaways. Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, Stanford. Page read; the report PDF was not opened. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  28. 36UNVERIFIED, not opened: UNESCO (ed.), UNESCO Science Report: Towards 2030, 2021 edition, cited from memory. UNESCO, Paris. No figure from it is used. Observation year 2021. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  29. 39UNVERIFIED, not opened: OECD (ed.), Frascati Manual 2015: Guidelines for Collecting and Reporting Data on Research and Experimental Development, cited from memory. OECD Publishing, Paris. Observation year 2015. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  30. 40UNVERIFIED, not opened: WIPO (ed.), World Intellectual Property Indicators 2025, cited from memory; the opened World Bank series draws on WIPO data. World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva. No figure from it is used. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  31. 27Gottweis, J. et al., Accelerating scientific discovery with Co-Scientist, arXiv 2502.18864 (version 2, 2026; abstract read through the arXiv API). Cornell University, Ithaca. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  32. 2UNESCO Institute for Statistics (ed.), UIS data API, data version 20260507 (February 2026 data release): indicators EXPGDP.TOT, RESDEN.INHAB.TFTE and FRESP.THC, world and regional aggregates. UNESCO, Montreal. Data pulled and read. Observation year 2023. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  33. 3DATA VINTAGE AFTER CLOSE: World Bank (ed.), World Development Indicators API (series updated 2026-10-08, after the 30 September evidence close; cited as the position at access): GB.XPD.RSDV.GD.ZS, SP.POP.SCIE.RD.P6, IP.JRN.ARTC.SC, IP.PAT.RESD, IP.PAT.NRES, world values. World Bank, Washington. Data pulled and read. Observation year 2023 (patents 2024, researchers 2020). Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  34. 6Crossref (ed.), Crossref REST API, work counts by type and publication year and counts of retraction notices (update-type filter), queried live on the access date. Crossref, Oxford. Counts are subject to later registration. Observation year 2025 (series 2015 to 2025). Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  35. 5POST-CLOSE, context only: arXiv (ed.), Monthly submissions statistics (monthly CSV, 1991 to November 2026; annual totals summed by the editors). Cornell University, Ithaca. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  36. 7bioRxiv (ed.), bioRxiv and medRxiv content detail API, new-paper counts for 2024 and 2025. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  37. 21Our World in Data (ed.), Yearly number of objects launched into outer space (data compiled from the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, CSV read). Global Change Data Lab, Oxford. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  38. 44UNVERIFIED, not opened: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (ed.), R&D (SDG 9.5) data release, February 2025; the page returned a script challenge, and 1.95% of GDP in 2022 and 31.1% women among researchers were seen only in search-result summaries and are not used. UNESCO, Montreal. Observation year 2022. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  39. 19CERN (ed.), Future Circular Collider, feasibility study page (results published in spring 2025: 91 km ring, estimated cost CHF 15 billion). CERN, Geneva. Page read. Observation year 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  40. 20Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (ed.), Achieving Fusion Ignition, National Ignition Facility page (ignition reached on 5 December 2022). LLNL, Livermore. Page read. Observation year 2022. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  41. 22RCSB Protein Data Bank (ed.), Current holdings, list of entry identifiers (262,922 entries counted by the editors on the access date). Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  42. 23GBIF (ed.), GBIF API, occurrence count and counts by year (3,890,294,224 records on the access date; 305,893,347 dated 2025). Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Copenhagen. Observation year 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03.back
  43. 12Varadi, M. et al., AlphaFold Protein Structure Database in 2024: providing structure coverage for over 214 million protein sequences, Nucleic Acids Research 52 (database issue), 368 to 375, 2024 (abstract read through Europe PMC). Oxford University Press, Oxford. Observation year 2024. Accessed 2026-11-03.back

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Valadbaygi, S. (Ed.). (2026). Chapter 6: Readings from the other desks. In Nexus Global Science and Engineering Frontier Risk and Resilience Report 2026: Baseline Edition, The State of the World’s Science and Engineering Frontier. (Baseline Edition 2026, Report No. NR-SECTOR-SCIENCE-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE) [Draft under review]. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI).

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