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Key facts and figures

85 000
85 000

Podcast episode downloads Cairn.info

(between September 2024 and August 2025)

20 +
20 +

Podcast episodes available in September 2025
 

700 +
700 +

Followers of the reading list about attachment theory attachment theory

4 000
4 000

Cairn Pro subscribers
(2024 data)

1 200
1 200

Institutions subscribing to book packages
in 2023

1 800
1 800

Institutions subscribing to journal packages

40 millions
40 millions

Institutional PDF downloads
in 2023

300 000
300 000

Consultations of Cairn.info Dossiers
in 2023

480 000
480 000

Active user accounts
in 2023

 

12.50 millions
12.50 millions

Converted pages
(cumulative data since Cairn.info’s inception)

3 000
3 000

Paper subscriptions managed

175 000
175 000

Cairn Talks participants

30 million
30 million

Queries on our search engine
in 2024

2 400 000
2 400 000

Pages converted in 2024

320 millions
320 millions

Institutional views

40 000
40 000

Journal articles published online in 2023

3 600
3 600

New user accounts created every week

4 million
4 million

Unique visitors per month on Cairn.info

64
64

POD (print-on-demand) journals

20 ans
20 ans

The 1st version of www.cairn.info was launched in 2005

17
17

Journals supported by Cairn.info in their use of Manuscript Manager

1.30 million
1.30 million

Online sales to individuals
(cumulative data since Cairn.info’s inception)

50
50

Publishers that entrust the production of their journals to Cairn.info

100
100

Journal articles translated with the support of the CFC
in 2023

31
31

Cairn.info journals with translations supported by the CFC

2.50 millions
2.50 millions

Views generated by translated articles
in 2023

140
140

Works translated from French to Spanish
(in addition to those receiving CFC aid) 

12 000
12 000

Articles available in English on Cairn.info

100 000
100 000

English abstracts created or verified

20 000
20 000

Books digitized
(in humanities and social sciences)

1 750
1 750

“Que sais-je ?” and “Repères” publications on Cairn.info
in 2024

80
80

Cairn Talks available on Cairn.info
in 2024

450 +
450 +

Reading lists published by our partners and curators

160 +
160 +

Dossiers available
in 2024

78 %
78 %

Proportion of French HSS researchers who reported having consulted Cairn.info
in 2020

2 000 +
2 000 +

Science, technology, and medicine publications available

350 000
350 000

Free articles
in 2024

50 millions €
50 millions €

Paid to publishers since 2005

250 000
250 000

Authors on Cairn.info

70 +
70 +

Over 70 countries covered

65 %
65 %

University libraries among our client institutions

25 %
25 %

Non-Francophone institutions

10 million
10 million

FTEs within our client institutions

600
600

Client institutions in France

2 000
2 000

Client institutions worldwide

100
100

Journals that entrust their production to Cairn.info
en 2024

40
40

Journals that entrust the management of their subscriptions to Cairn.info

450
450

Partner publishers

630
630

Journals distributed

2 500
2 500

Journal issues and books produced
since 2005
 

 

50
50

More than 50 people employed by Cairn.info

40
40

Journals distributed through the institutional funding model

73 %
73 %

Articles available for free

31
31

Journals distributed through the Subscribe to Open model

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