Optogenetics Growth

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides a database of published neuroscience papers. We used the database to obtain a count of the number of optogenetics papers published each year for the past ten years and obtained the figure below.


Figure: Number of Optogenetics Papers Published versus Year. The final point is a projection based upon the number published so far in 2015.
In the first seven months of 2015, 402 optogenetics papers have been published, as you can see for yourself with this search link. Assuming a constant rate of publication for the next five months, we project the total number in 2015 to be 689, and we added this point to the end of our graph.