Statistical information on the scientific library

Statistical information on the scientific library

The table lists research work about chess, in which researchers from 99 countries are involved. The category "School and Education" provides a better overview for this specific area of research. The assignment of individual research papers to this category can only be arbitrary.

The economic power USA publishes more research results about chess than any other nation, followed by Great Britain, Russia, Brazil, Spain and Germany. In Russia and China a great amount of research papers are published in the native tongue. This makes research and presentation in the table difficult.In the table you can find research paper on chess in 43 languages, with English being the most important scientific language.

Russia and Brazil take a leading position in research results of chess concerning school and education. Intensive research on chess at school is also being conducted in USA, Great Britain, Spain, Cuba, Turkey, Armenia and Ecuador. The Latin American countries publish considerably more research paper on "chess in schools" than Russia or than the USA and Great Britain together. Governments in Latin America have set up state education programmes in which chess plays a special role. Through chess all children should be given better access to education. The scientists from Latin American countries publish their results on school chess preferably in their mother tongue Spanish or Portuguese.

Scientists who have published a particularly large number of papers related to chess are:

• Merim Bilalić, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom
• Guillermo Campitelli, PhD in Psychology. Associate Professor, Edith Cowan University, Australia
• Dr. Neil Charness, Professor of Psychology, Florida State University, USA
• Fernand Gobet, Ph.D. Professor Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
• Azlan Iqbal, Senior Lecturer, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia
• Irina V. Mikhailova, PhD in Education, Assistant Professor, Russian State University of Social Sciences, Moscow, Russia
• Giovanni Sala, PhD University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
• Herbert Alexander Simon, PhD, Professor, economist and operations researcher, Nobel Prize winner, USA

Overview - countries of origin and the number of research papers on chess

Land	Anzahl Forschungsbeiträge, Schule und Bildung	Gesamtanzahl Forschungsbeiträge	Gesamtzahl der Titelträger (IGM, IM, FM) FIDE 2024
USA	69	913	957
Russia	186	597	2525
Brazil	250	462	254
UK	34	357	412
Spain	89	312	848
Germany	17	257	1606
Italy	19	160	286
India	22	150	647
France	9	142	549
Canada	9	121	259
Poland	18	117	570
China	7	117	206
Cuba	70	102	334
The Netherlands	6	97	419
Australia	10	89	242
Colombia	43	86	290
Turkey	36	84	270
Ecuador	50	70	78
Iran	16	70	166
Ukraine	15	66	586
Slovenia	2	65	149
Mexico	20	64	265
Switzerland	6	61	169
Armenia	38	59	159
Argentina	15	59	322
Malaysia	4	58	67
Austria	8	55	284
Sweden	7	50	223
Indonesia	12	49	147
Israel	3	49	251
Portugal	8	48	62
Hungary	11	44	513
Greece	10	41	187
Peru	23	38	124
Uzbekistan	16	37	101
Czechia	9	37	388
Japan	2	37	33
Romania	19	36	302
Finland	1	33	123
South Africa	10	31	155
Serbia	2	26	629
Bulgaria	5	25	154
Belgium	1	23	126
Venezuela	13	22	164
Croatia	3	22	287
Norway	2	22	186
Uruguay	8	19	48
Ireland	1	18	52
Iraq	3	15	75
Nigeria	5	13	50
Denmark	2	12	162
Thailand	0	11	21
New Zealand	0	11	83
Korea	0	10	27
Belarus	5	9	98
Vietnam	4	9	177
Costa Rica	3	9	67
Pakistan	0	9	18
Saudi Arabia	0	8	7
Estonia	0	8	58
Algeria	0	8	84
Moldova	2	7	74
Kazakhstan	2	7	216
Philippines	1	7	122
Egypt	0	7	88
Paraguay	3	6	44
Iceland	0	6	70
Lithuania	0	6	79
Slovak Republic	0	6	150
Bolivien	2	5	48
Latvia	2	5	78
Morocco	0	5	46
Azerbaidshan	1	4	175
Singapore	0	4	82
Guatemala	1	3	24
Puerto Rico	1	3	46
United Arab Emirates	1	3	64
Malta	0	3	28
Jordan	0	3	33
Nicaragua	1	2	31
Dominican Republic	1	2	67
Sri Lanka	1	2	70
Georgia	1	2	152
Cyprus	0	2	13
Yemen	0	2	16
Luxembourg	0	2	17
Kirgistan	0	2	37
Macedonia	0	2	54
Bangladesh	0	2	69
Tajikistan	1	1	14
Angola	1	1	35
Mongolia	1	1	130
Oman	0	1	6
Palestine	0	1	16
Sudan	0	1	19
Lebanon	0	1	25
Trinidad and Tobago	0	1	33
Panama	0	1	45
Bosnia & Herzegovina	0	1	110

last update: 21.02.2025

Overview - number of research papers on chess in the respective language

	Sprache	Gesamtanzahl Forschungsbeiträge	Anzahl Forschungsbeiträge, Schule und Bildung
1	English	3115	359
2	Spanish	613	304
3	Russian	562	184
4	Portuguese	444	267
5	German	108	17
6	French	89	10
7	Italian	71	7
8	Polish	58	15
9	Turkish	44	20
10	Ukrainian	39	10
11	Persian	21	7
11	Greek	21	6
13	Indonesian	19	6
14	Czech	16	3
15	Hungarian	14	10
16	Slovenian	11	0
17	Swedish	9	5
17	Romanian	9	2
19	Croatian	8	2
19	Bulgarian	8	2
21	Catalan	7	5
22	Armenian	3	1
22	Dutch	3	1
22	Hebrew	3	1
22	Arabic	3	1
22	Norwegian	3	0
22	Bosnian	3	0
22	Chinese	3	0
29	Latvian	2	2
29	Tajik	2	1
29	Danish	2	1
29	Uzbek	2	0
33	Serbian	1	1
33	Afrikaans	1	1
33	Kurdish	1	1
33	Georgian	1	0
33	Vietnamese	1	0
33	Korean	1	0
33	Malaysian	1	0
33	Thai	1	0
33	Kyrgyz	1	0
33	Corsican	1	0
33	Kazakh	1	0

last update: 21.02.2025

Overview - Distribution of research papers on chess over the years

Jahr	Gesamtanzahl Forschungsbeiträge	Anzahl Forschungsbeiträge, Schule und Bildung
2025	25	4
2024	202	46
2023	195	69
2022	396	92
2021	438	97
2020	448	122
2019	344	96
2018	339	89
2017	308	102
2016	311	82
2015	270	75
2014	245	57
2013	190	37
2012	215	49
2011	172	39
2010	153	27
2009	144	34
2008	128	34
2007	115	24
2006	95	11
2005	83	10
2004	79	15
2003	47	3
2002	40	5
2001	41	5
2000	35	6
1999	26	2

last update: 21.02.2025