mongodb fix incorect result cursor count

When i try to fix a field on mongodb collection, i need to do an operation which cheap on cpu and memory usage, and i think i need do a process with limit and skip into specific value, just like pagination, but i got different result when i count all database and iterate over the cursor, and result from stats show the same results with count.

> db.articles.count()
6027
> db.articles.find().toArray().length
17587
> db.articles.stats()
{
    "ns" : "nolimit.articles",
    "count" : 6027,
    "size" : 21906515,
    ...

i know that count operations do the same thing with the stats, when i try to read the whole page, i stop about inacurracy count due to unclean shutdown of mongod and the page told me to do validate to fix it.

And yes, validate process, make the count result fixed.

> db.articles.validate()
{
        "ns" : "nolimit.articles",
        "nrecords" : 17587,
        "nIndexes" : 4,
        "keysPerIndex" : {
                "nolimit.articles.$_id_" : 17587,
                "nolimit.articles.$date_created_1" : 17587,
                "nolimit.articles.$date_created_-1" : 17587,
                "nolimit.articles.$title_text_content_text_link_text" : 0
        },
        "valid" : true,
        "errors" : [ ],
        "warning" : "Some checks omitted for speed. use {full:true} option to do more thorough scan.",
        "ok" : 1
}
> db.articles.count()
17587