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On research quality in 2022-now, Austria ranks #17 in the world and India #18, of 189 countries. Austria stands higher in 16 of the 26 fields both publish in, India in 10.

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Austria

World rank, 2022-now
#17
#16 all time
Works, 2022-now
90k
fractional
Top-10% rate
10.7%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
37%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Classics, Software, History and Philosophy of Science.

India

World rank, 2022-now
#18
#20 all time
Works, 2022-now
1.4M
fractional
Top-10% rate
6.5%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
40%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical Science, Complementary and alternative medicine.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Austria leads on 5 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work and international co-authorship. India leads on 3 of 9 measures: output, open access and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Austria 51 level3 India
  1. #17Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#18
  2. 1.20×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.67×
  3. 90kOutputfractional works, 2022-now1.4M
  4. 10.7%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.5%
  5. 22.2Citations per workall time, per fractional work12.0
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 37%Open accessof its works free to read, all time40%
  8. 29%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time11%
  9. +4%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+48%

A rank is drawn as its standing: the longer the bar, the nearer the top. Anything else is drawn against the larger of the two, and two values a hair apart are called level. Quality, excellence and the top-10% rate are explained in the methodology.

Who leads in each field?

Austria stands higher in 16 of 26 fields, India in 10. Austria leads most in Psychology (#17 against #35); India leads most in Chemical Engineering (#6 against #21). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Austria 1610 India
  1. #18Agricultural and Biological Sciences#17
  2. #11Arts and Humanities#23
  3. #17Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#21
  4. #14Business, Management and Accounting#18
  5. #21Chemical Engineering#6
  6. #22Chemistry#5
  7. #15Computer Science#19
  8. #21Decision Sciences#14
  9. #17Dentistry#27
  10. #19Earth and Planetary Sciences#23
  11. #13Economics, Econometrics and Finance#20
  12. #27Energy#15
  13. #20Engineering#15
  14. #19Environmental Science#18
  15. #17Health Professions#23
  16. #18Immunology and Microbiology#28
  17. #21Materials Science#14
  18. #16Mathematics#17
  19. #17Medicine#30
  20. #18Neuroscience#27
  21. #19Nursing#23
  22. #21Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#8
  23. #14Physics and Astronomy#19
  24. #17Psychology#35
  25. #13Social Sciences#36
  26. -Veterinary#19

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.

The numbers behind each field

Click a heading to sort. The side that does better in a pair of columns is shaded: a lower rank, a higher rate, more works.

Field Austria rankIndia rank Austria top 10%India top 10% Austria worksIndia works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #18 #17 12.9% 6.9% 2.4k 108k
Arts and Humanities #11 #23 11.6% 8.5% 4.9k 17k
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #17 #21 11.0% 6.2% 5.1k 70k
Business, Management and Accounting #14 #18 11.1% 8.9% 3.2k 37k
Chemical Engineering #21 #6 6.5% 7.6% 281 5.8k
Chemistry #22 #5 8.7% 7.8% 1.2k 38k
Computer Science #15 #19 9.7% 6.5% 7.1k 167k
Decision Sciences #21 #14 11.8% 7.7% 924 15k
Dentistry #17 #27 15.0% 4.1% 256 15k
Earth and Planetary Sciences #19 #23 10.6% 7.0% 1.4k 14k
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #13 #20 12.2% 7.3% 1.8k 22k
Energy #27 #15 9.0% 6.9% 535 17k
Engineering #20 #15 7.8% 7.0% 13k 261k
Environmental Science #19 #18 11.6% 7.7% 3.9k 65k
Health Professions #17 #23 9.7% 6.8% 2k 29k
Immunology and Microbiology #18 #28 11.7% 5.7% 888 10k
Materials Science #21 #14 7.9% 7.2% 2.3k 71k
Mathematics #16 #17 11.6% 9.0% 1.5k 17k
Medicine #17 #30 12.2% 4.8% 17k 254k
Neuroscience #18 #27 10.1% 5.9% 1.7k 19k
Nursing #19 #23 11.7% 6.6% 231 8.5k
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics #21 #8 9.3% 6.4% 205 11k
Physics and Astronomy #14 #19 11.7% 6.2% 2.6k 26k
Psychology #17 #35 11.5% 5.2% 3.3k 26k
Social Sciences #13 #36 11.3% 7.2% 12k 61k
Veterinary - #19 - 4.3% - 1.6k

What is each known for?

The keywords that describe each side's research, by fractional works in 2022-now and weighted toward what it does more of than the world.

Austria

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology3,551▼ 0.86×140 topics
  2. Climate Change3,088◆ 1.10×131 topics
  3. Machine Learning2,846▼ 0.83×93 topics
  4. Deep Learning2,629▼ 0.74×82 topics
  5. Sustainability2,573◆ 1.02×139 topics
  6. Inflammation2,161◆ 0.98×83 topics
  7. Globalization1,998◆ 0.98×178 topics
  8. Sustainable Development1,541◆ 0.95×109 topics
  9. Big Data1,464▲ 1.48×36 topics
  10. Renewable Energy1,433◆ 0.96×61 topics
  11. Education1,415▼ 0.80×153 topics
  12. Human Rights1,400▲ 1.33×90 topics
  13. Public Health1,387◆ 0.92×76 topics
  14. Identity1,384▲ 1.85×78 topics
  15. Artificial Intelligence1,380◆ 0.94×65 topics
  16. Quality of Life1,375◆ 0.92×61 topics
  17. Environmental Impact1,319▼ 0.75×71 topics
  18. Oxidative Stress1,319▼ 0.78×63 topics
  19. Gender1,204▲ 2.2×58 topics
  20. Treatment1,159◆ 0.92×52 topics
  21. Mechanical Properties1,144◆ 1.13×39 topics
  22. History1,105▲ 1.54×66 topics
  23. Innovation1,067◆ 1.00×88 topics
  24. Ethics1,063▲ 2.0×60 topics
  25. Governance1,020▲ 3.0×20 topics
  26. Nationalism836▲ 1.80×33 topics
  27. Literature831▲ 1.47×64 topics
  28. Religion802▲ 1.68×43 topics
  29. Philosophy800▲ 1.75×47 topics
  30. Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse749▲ 19×2 topics
  31. Neoliberalism696▲ 1.87×30 topics
  32. European Union620▲ 2.7×29 topics
  33. Bildungsungleichheit529▲ 19×1 topic
  34. Ethnografisches Schreiben529▲ 19×1 topic
  35. Bildung381▲ 12×3 topics
  36. Migration Law341▲ 23×2 topics
  37. Legal Methodology335▲ 18×2 topics
  38. Regulatory Agencies330▲ 15×2 topics
  39. Constitutional Courts328▲ 21×2 topics
  40. Digital Governance317▲ 28×1 topic

India

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Deep Learning122k▲ 2.2×85 topics
  2. Machine Learning110k▲ 2.0×97 topics
  3. Epidemiology62k◆ 0.97×140 topics
  4. Sustainability43k◆ 1.10×139 topics
  5. Climate Change40k◆ 0.92×132 topics
  6. Neural Networks37k▲ 1.50×42 topics
  7. Healthcare37k▲ 1.99×43 topics
  8. Nanoparticles34k▲ 1.68×44 topics
  9. Environmental Impact34k▲ 1.22×74 topics
  10. Internet of Things32k▲ 2.3×33 topics
  11. Artificial Intelligence29k▲ 1.28×67 topics
  12. Convolutional Neural Networks29k▲ 2.5×14 topics
  13. Biomedical Applications29k▲ 1.51×36 topics
  14. Nanomaterials29k▲ 1.71×21 topics
  15. Inflammation29k▼ 0.84×83 topics
  16. Security29k▲ 2.6×31 topics
  17. Oxidative Stress28k◆ 1.04×63 topics
  18. Renewable Energy27k▲ 1.18×61 topics
  19. Antioxidant24k▲ 2.2×51 topics
  20. COVID-1924k◆ 1.13×34 topics
  21. Mechanical Properties23k▲ 1.44×39 topics
  22. Data Mining22k▲ 1.88×25 topics
  23. Wireless Sensor Networks22k▲ 3.1×23 topics
  24. Energy Efficiency22k▲ 1.47×46 topics
  25. Big Data21k▲ 1.37×37 topics
  26. Medical Imaging19k▲ 2.2×9 topics
  27. Graphene19k▲ 1.74×12 topics
  28. Feature Extraction19k▲ 2.6×10 topics
  29. IoT18k▲ 3.0×19 topics
  30. Environmental Monitoring18k▲ 2.9×19 topics
  31. Image Processing18k▲ 2.5×14 topics
  32. IoT Security17k▲ 3.5×3 topics
  33. Classification17k▲ 2.3×13 topics
  34. Smart Cities14k▲ 3.4×8 topics
  35. Big Data Analytics13k▲ 3.9×5 topics
  36. Privacy13k▲ 2.8×11 topics
  37. Cybersecurity13k▲ 3.1×6 topics
  38. Feature Selection12k▲ 3.5×6 topics
  39. India11k▲ 9.1×4 topics
  40. Smart Farming10k▲ 5.5×2 topics

Size is fractional works in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of the side's work against its share of the world's. Each word links to the topic it comes from most.

How has their output grown?

India has out-published Austria every year since 1980.

still counting200k400kIndia391k in 2025Austria23k in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works per year.

Their share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share, because all of science grows. Each line is a side as a percentage of every work published that year.

still counting2.5%5.0%7.5%India6.7% in 2025Austria0.39% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

The share of each side's works, year by year, that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. The average of all institutions is 10.0% (why not 10%).

still counting5%10%15%Austria10.6% in 2025India6.6% in 2025200020102020

A year with under 1% of the side's peak output is left out: a rate over a handful of papers says nothing. The latest years are still being cited.

Who holds more of the world's best institutions?

A country's average quality and the number of institutions it holds at the very top can disagree, and both are worth knowing. The counts are nested: an institution in the top 50 is also in the top 100.

Austria 12 level2 India
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 4In the top 5002
  4. 9In the top 1,00015
  5. #20Elite capacityrank among 204 countries#16

Institutions ranked on research quality, 2022-now. Elite capacity counts a country's institutions by their worldwide rank, weighted so a place at #1 counts for more than one at #480.

Which publishes more research, Austria or India?

India publishes 15.4× as much research as Austria in 2022-now (1.4M against 90k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Austria or India?

10.7% of Austria's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.5% for India.

Is Austria or India growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +48% against 2018-21 for India, and +4% for Austria.

Which has more open access research, Austria or India?

40% of India's research is free to read, against 37% of Austria's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Austria or India?

Austria holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and India 0; in the top 1,000 it is 9 against 15.

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%.

Austria

  1. 1University of Vienna12.4% top 10% · 11k works
  2. 2Austrian Academy of Sciences13.5% top 10% · 2.9k works
  3. 3Universität Innsbruck11.7% top 10% · 5.8k works
  4. 4Medical University of Vienna12.3% top 10% · 6.7k works
  5. 5TU Wien8.6% top 10% · 6.4k works
  6. 6Johannes Kepler University of Linz9.7% top 10% · 3.7k works

India

  1. 1Indian Institute of Science Bangalore7.1% top 10% · 8.1k works
  2. 2Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur9.3% top 10% · 10k works
  3. 3Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati7.3% top 10% · 7k works
  4. 4Indian Institute of Technology Bombay6.4% top 10% · 9.1k works
  5. 5Indian Institute of Technology Madras6.3% top 10% · 9.4k works
  6. 6Indian Institute of Technology Delhi8.4% top 10% · 11k 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, 10.0% (how it is set): 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.

Who are the top researchers on each side?

The most cited researchers on each side, among those ranked.

Austria

  1. 1 Jiřı́ Friml #255 worldwide 68k citations · 572 works
  2. 2 Joeri Rogelj #605 worldwide 45k citations · 454 works
  3. 3 Kim Nasmyth #833 worldwide 61k citations · 355 works
  4. 4 Thomas Jenuwein #1,397 worldwide 59k citations · 220 works
  5. 5 Yoshihide Wada #1,643 worldwide 57k citations · 642 works

India

  1. 1 Sanjit Mitra #61 worldwide 167k citations · 467 works
  2. 2 C. Mishra #208 worldwide 84k citations · 251 works
  3. 3 Sachin Kumar Mangla #416 worldwide 25k citations · 373 works
  4. 4 S. J. Kapadia #575 worldwide 52k citations · 233 works
  5. 5 P. Ajith #693 worldwide 82k citations · 285 works

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