Stanford University Student Journals · Open Journal Systems
Every article on this platform is written by Stanford students, published by Stanford students, and put through peer review by Stanford students — with student editors and production teams running the whole operation. This is a retrospective on the growth and reach that student-run publishing has achieved on Stanford's OJS platform, running continuously since 2008, with the last decade showing the sharpest acceleration.
Total incoming submissions from Stanford students vs. articles that made it through student-run peer review to publication, by year. 2026 is year-to-date (through September) and has already passed several full prior years.
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Total usage-stats events (abstract views + full-text downloads) recorded across all student journals, by year. 2026's year-to-date total already exceeds all of 2025.
| Year | Readership events |
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A caution on these totals: OJS filters known bots, but newer AI agents often disguise themselves as regular browsers to dodge that filter. Some of the 2024–2026 growth may reflect this kind of automated traffic, not just human readers.
What it takes to get 1,003 student-written articles published: student editors assigning the work, and willing student reviewers reading it closely enough to send it back better.
Article output by student journal, ranked. Intersect — the platform's flagship, run entirely by Stanford undergraduates — accounts for nearly half of all articles ever published on the system.
Abstract views and full-text downloads since tracking began in 2014, alongside academic citations from Google Scholar, gathered by hand from per-journal searches on October 27, 2026 (a dash means Scholar has no record of the article). Click a column header to sort.
A caution on the view counts: OJS filters known bots, but newer AI agents often disguise themselves as regular browsers to dodge that filter, so views — and to a lesser extent downloads — may be somewhat inflated by automated AI traffic.