Aug 19

ICSD release decomposition: category expansion vs experimental growth (2020.1-2026.1)

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The ICSD didn't triple. Its scope did.
Wayback snapshots of the ICSD About page show 52% of the database's growth since 2020 is metal-organic and theoretical backfill, not new experimental inorganic structures.

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ICSD "About" page figures (total entries, theoretical structures, metal-organic structures, new entries) extracted from Wayback Machine snapshots of icsd.products.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/about/about-icsd, releases 2020.1-2026.1, with per-release deltas decomposed into metal-organic additions, theoretical additions, and experimental-inorganic residual. Finding: 52% of ICSD growth 2020.1-2026.1 is category expansion (metal-organic + theoretical), not new experimental inorganic structures.

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The ICSD didn't triple. Its scope did.
Wayback snapshots of the ICSD About page show 52% of the database's growth since 2020 is metal-organic and theoretical backfill, not new experimental inorganic structures.