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New research published: The Antarctic Research Trends Report 2025

27 February 2026

Antarctic research enters a new phase as global effort evolves.

The Antarctic Research Trends Report 2025 reveals significant evolution in global Antarctic research activity, highlighting evolving scientific effort, evolving collaboration patterns, with implications for the availability of scientific output to the Antarctic Treaty System.

The report analysed nearly 30,000 peer-reviewed publications from 2016 to 2024. It was produced by the Arctic Centre at Umeå University in collaboration with the University of Tasmania and Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU), with support from the SCAR and UArctic (University of the Arctic).

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We are grateful to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) for supporting us.