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Australia vs Netherlands

On research quality in 2022-now, Australia ranks #6 in the world and the Netherlands #9, of 189 countries. Australia stands higher in 23 of the 26 fields both publish in, the Netherlands in 3.

Australia

World rank, 2022-now
#6
#8 all time
Works, 2022-now
343k
fractional
Top-10% rate
25.4%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
40%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Research and Theory, Public Administration, Medical Terminology.

Netherlands

World rank, 2022-now
#9
#7 all time
Works, 2022-now
191k
fractional
Top-10% rate
25.2%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
48%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Medical Terminology, General Decision Sciences, Structural Biology.

Who leads in each field?

Australia stands higher in 23 of 26 fields, Netherlands in 3. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Australia 233 Netherlands
  1. #7Agricultural and Biological Sciences#10
  2. #13Arts and Humanities#12
  3. #6Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#9
  4. #8Business, Management and Accounting#11
  5. #3Chemical Engineering#16
  6. #14Chemistry#19
  7. #4Computer Science#16
  8. #5Decision Sciences#6
  9. #10Dentistry#15
  10. #7Earth and Planetary Sciences#10
  11. #7Economics, Econometrics and Finance#9
  12. #7Energy#24
  13. #5Engineering#15
  14. #5Environmental Science#9
  15. #3Health Professions#9
  16. #7Immunology and Microbiology#8
  17. #6Materials Science#20
  18. #16Mathematics#21
  19. #8Medicine#7
  20. #6Neuroscience#8
  21. #9Nursing#16
  22. #11Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#19
  23. #10Physics and Astronomy#9
  24. #5Psychology#8
  25. #7Social Sciences#10
  26. #3Veterinary#9

Standing is the percentile of world rank within each field, 2022-now; the printed number is the rank itself. A dash means the field is too small there to rank. How sides are compared.

How has their output grown?

50k100kAustralia88k in 2025Netherlands49k in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works per year. The latest, partial year is left off.

Which publishes more research, Australia or Netherlands?

Australia publishes 1.8× as much research as the Netherlands in 2022-now (343k against 191k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Australia or Netherlands?

25.4% of Australia's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 25.2% for the Netherlands.

Which institutions lead in each country?

The highest-ranked institutions on each side on research quality, 2022-now. The percentage is each institution's own top-10% rate: the share of its works that are among the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. Every figure stands alone, so they do not add up to 100%.

Australia

  1. 1The University of Melbourne26.2% top 10% · 20k works
  2. 2UNSW Sydney26.8% top 10% · 17k works
  3. 3The University of Sydney24.9% top 10% · 20k works
  4. 4Monash University28.7% top 10% · 17k works
  5. 5The University of Queensland27.4% top 10% · 17k works
  6. 6Deakin University30.7% top 10% · 9.3k works

Netherlands

  1. 1University of Amsterdam30.8% top 10% · 11k works
  2. 2Utrecht University28.8% top 10% · 11k works
  3. 3University of Groningen29.4% top 10% · 10k works
  4. 4Delft University of Technology25.1% top 10% · 14k works
  5. 5Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam28.7% top 10% · 7.9k works
  6. 6Radboud University Nijmegen26.0% top 10% · 8.5k works

The number is the rank inside the country. The track on each row is the top-10% rate; the tick is the average of all institutions, 16.5% (why not 10%): teal above it, red below. The ranking is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each institution's own topics predict and adds a small reward for size, so the rates do not fall in order.

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