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Austria vs Iran

On research quality in 2022-now, Austria ranks #20 in the world and Iran #23, of 189 countries. Austria stands higher in 11 of the 26 fields both publish in, Iran in 15.

Austria

World rank, 2022-now
#20
#16 all time
Works, 2022-now
90k
fractional
Top-10% rate
18.7%
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.

Iran

World rank, 2022-now
#23
#31 all time
Works, 2022-now
268k
fractional
Top-10% rate
16.3%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
46%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Research and Theory, Molecular Medicine, Filtration and Separation.

Who leads in each field?

Austria stands higher in 11 of 26 fields, Iran in 15. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Austria 1115 Iran
  1. #32Agricultural and Biological Sciences#19
  2. #16Arts and Humanities#41
  3. #23Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#17
  4. #25Business, Management and Accounting#37
  5. #28Chemical Engineering#15
  6. #38Chemistry#9
  7. #30Computer Science#23
  8. #46Decision Sciences#34
  9. #26Dentistry#20
  10. #20Earth and Planetary Sciences#22
  11. #29Economics, Econometrics and Finance#65
  12. #41Energy#5
  13. #37Engineering#12
  14. #19Environmental Science#21
  15. #29Health Professions#19
  16. #24Immunology and Microbiology#15
  17. #37Materials Science#9
  18. #20Mathematics#47
  19. #17Medicine#25
  20. #23Neuroscience#30
  21. #33Nursing#13
  22. #37Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#7
  23. #15Physics and Astronomy#34
  24. #22Psychology#45
  25. #21Social Sciences#55
  26. -Veterinary#22

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?

50k100kIran69k in 2025Austria23k in 20251990200020102020

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

Which publishes more research, Austria or Iran?

Iran publishes 3.0× as much research as Austria in 2022-now (268k against 90k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Austria or Iran?

18.7% of Austria's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 16.3% for Iran.

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 Vienna22.9% top 10% · 9.9k works
  2. 2Universität Innsbruck21.1% top 10% · 5.8k works
  3. 3Medical University of Vienna19.5% top 10% · 6.1k works
  4. 4TU Wien15.7% top 10% · 6.4k works
  5. 5Austrian Academy of Sciences22.3% top 10% · 1.3k works
  6. 6Johannes Kepler University of Linz18.2% top 10% · 3.3k works

Iran

  1. 1Iran University of Science and Technology24.3% top 10% · 5.6k works
  2. 2University of Tehran20.6% top 10% · 12k works
  3. 3Ilam University23.6% top 10% · 1k works
  4. 4University of Tabriz19.1% top 10% · 4.9k works
  5. 5Tehran University of Medical Sciences15.9% top 10% · 9.4k works
  6. 6Amirkabir University of Technology19.8% top 10% · 5.2k 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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