
GQL in 2026: A Data-Driven Analysis of the Graph Query Language Standard's Research Surge
Corpus-driven research analysis of the ISO GQL standard: 309 papers in the graph-query-languages category, +235.7% YoY (141 papers in the last 12 months), four research threads (theory, NL2GQL, engines, GQL-as-primitive), the author community, and the field's sharpest gap — only 8 reviews against 309 papers.

