The phrase "many recent papers" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an abundance of scholarly or scientific papers published recently, or when attempting to illustrate the extent of current scientific literature on a given subject. For example, "Many recent papers have been published that address the potential applications of quantum computing in the healthcare industry."
Many recent papers addressed this interesting question.
end{aligned} (10) The applications of fractional calculus found in many recent papers (see [16 19]).
On the other hand, many recent papers are describing the use of ecologically friendly bismuth compounds in organic transformations[15].
There have been many recent papers [10, 11, 12, 13, 14] aimed at comparing contending connectivity estimation procedures.
Multicamera tracking in the presence of ground-plane constraint has been the focus of many recent papers [12 15].
Moreover, in many recent papers the chemical profile of different bee-pollens has been reported [3, 4].
"Although many of these regions have decreased in area and thickness over the past decade(s), reported in many recent scientific papers, the misinterpretation of enormous losses of glacierised area from these maps is far off the range in measured losses," said Hester Jiskoot, a glaciologist at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta.
This assumption was first introduced in [25] and has been subsequently used in many recent networks papers (see, e.g., [9, 11, 12, 16]).
Alexander's gaffe is probably the worst of many recent cases of papers carried by leading politicians being photographed leading to embarrassing disclosures.
Many recent multiple testing papers have provided more efficient and/or robust methodology for control of a particular error rate.
Many recent green vehicle routing papers have presented mathematical models designed to minimize fuel consumption and the environmentally damaging carbon emissions in the routing decisions related to route choice, the load on the vehicle, and the speed.
