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On research quality in 2022-now, South Korea ranks #14 in the world and Austria #17, of 189 countries. Austria stands higher in 7 of the 26 fields both publish in, South Korea in 19.

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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.

South Korea

World rank, 2022-now
#14
#15 all time
Works, 2022-now
358k
fractional
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
43%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Leadership and Management, Polymers and Plastics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Who leads, measure by measure?

South Korea leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, output, open access and growth. Austria leads on 3 of 9 measures: excellence for its fields, citations per work and international co-authorship. The two are level on top-10% rate and institutions in the world top 100.

Austria 32 level4 South Korea
  1. #17Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#14
  2. 1.20×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.94×
  3. 90kOutputfractional works, 2022-now358k
  4. 10.7%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited10.5%
  5. 22.2Citations per workall time, per fractional work18.2
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 37%Open accessof its works free to read, all time43%
  8. 29%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time17%
  9. +4%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+7%

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 7 of 26 fields, South Korea in 19. South Korea leads most in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (#5 against #21); Austria leads most in Arts and Humanities (#11 against #24). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Austria 719 South Korea
  1. #18Agricultural and Biological Sciences#15
  2. #11Arts and Humanities#24
  3. #17Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#18
  4. #14Business, Management and Accounting#13
  5. #21Chemical Engineering#14
  6. #22Chemistry#10
  7. #15Computer Science#7
  8. #21Decision Sciences#12
  9. #17Dentistry#13
  10. #19Earth and Planetary Sciences#16
  11. #13Economics, Econometrics and Finance#15
  12. #27Energy#3
  13. #20Engineering#7
  14. #19Environmental Science#16
  15. #17Health Professions#14
  16. #18Immunology and Microbiology#19
  17. #21Materials Science#7
  18. #16Mathematics#8
  19. #17Medicine#14
  20. #18Neuroscience#11
  21. #19Nursing#6
  22. #21Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#5
  23. #14Physics and Astronomy#16
  24. #17Psychology#19
  25. #13Social Sciences#23
  26. -Veterinary#20

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 rankSouth Korea rank Austria top 10%South Korea top 10% Austria worksSouth Korea works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #18 #15 12.9% 9.8% 2.4k 13k
Arts and Humanities #11 #24 11.6% 13.8% 4.9k 2.6k
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #17 #18 11.0% 9.4% 5.1k 25k
Business, Management and Accounting #14 #13 11.1% 14.2% 3.2k 5.5k
Chemical Engineering #21 #14 6.5% 10.9% 281 2.1k
Chemistry #22 #10 8.7% 10.3% 1.2k 5.3k
Computer Science #15 #7 9.7% 12.0% 7.1k 30k
Decision Sciences #21 #12 11.8% 14.1% 924 2.5k
Dentistry #17 #13 15.0% 11.8% 256 2.3k
Earth and Planetary Sciences #19 #16 10.6% 8.0% 1.4k 4.2k
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #13 #15 12.2% 10.1% 1.8k 4.2k
Energy #27 #3 9.0% 9.4% 535 4.8k
Engineering #20 #7 7.8% 10.6% 13k 78k
Environmental Science #19 #16 11.6% 9.3% 3.9k 15k
Health Professions #17 #14 9.7% 12.4% 2k 6.2k
Immunology and Microbiology #18 #19 11.7% 8.8% 888 4k
Materials Science #21 #7 7.9% 10.0% 2.3k 22k
Mathematics #16 #8 11.6% 11.0% 1.5k 3.2k
Medicine #17 #14 12.2% 10.2% 17k 87k
Neuroscience #18 #11 10.1% 10.7% 1.7k 7.6k
Nursing #19 #6 11.7% 11.6% 231 2.7k
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics #21 #5 9.3% 10.2% 205 1.7k
Physics and Astronomy #14 #16 11.7% 9.0% 2.6k 7.6k
Psychology #17 #19 11.5% 11.1% 3.3k 7.8k
Social Sciences #13 #23 11.3% 12.2% 12k 15k
Veterinary - #20 - 9.3% - 483

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

South Korea

▲ 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 Learning19k▲ 1.34×85 topics
  2. Epidemiology17k◆ 1.08×140 topics
  3. Inflammation13k▲ 1.46×83 topics
  4. Machine Learning13k◆ 0.93×97 topics
  5. Neural Networks9,068▲ 1.45×42 topics
  6. Oxidative Stress8,834▲ 1.33×63 topics
  7. Biomedical Applications8,345▲ 1.74×36 topics
  8. Nanomaterials8,320▲ 1.96×21 topics
  9. Cancer7,324▲ 1.34×59 topics
  10. Climate Change7,116▼ 0.65×131 topics
  11. Nanoparticles6,924▲ 1.36×44 topics
  12. Quality of Life6,876▲ 1.18×60 topics
  13. Energy Storage6,776▲ 2.6×13 topics
  14. Cardiovascular Disease6,255▲ 1.35×39 topics
  15. Nanocomposites5,958▲ 1.86×22 topics
  16. Environmental Impact5,782▼ 0.84×74 topics
  17. Graphene5,561▲ 2.0×12 topics
  18. Treatment5,456◆ 1.11×52 topics
  19. Cathode Materials5,347▲ 3.4×3 topics
  20. Tissue Engineering4,826▲ 1.96×13 topics
  21. Mechanical Properties4,572◆ 1.15×39 topics
  22. Energy Efficiency4,508▲ 1.20×46 topics
  23. Convolutional Neural Networks4,412▲ 1.50×14 topics
  24. Lithium-ion Batteries4,326▲ 2.6×4 topics
  25. Chemotherapy4,259▲ 1.48×25 topics
  26. Metabolic Syndrome4,209▲ 1.28×24 topics
  27. Metal-Organic Frameworks3,979▲ 2.4×6 topics
  28. Rechargeable Batteries3,606▲ 3.4×2 topics
  29. Biosensors3,421▲ 1.72×12 topics
  30. Nanostructures3,336▲ 2.0×17 topics
  31. Water Splitting3,319▲ 2.2×4 topics
  32. Semiconductors3,103▲ 2.6×6 topics
  33. Flexible Electronics2,974▲ 4.3×3 topics
  34. Nanocrystals2,774▲ 2.6×5 topics
  35. Self-Efficacy2,756▲ 2.6×11 topics
  36. Solar Cells2,495▲ 3.0×7 topics
  37. Energy Harvesting2,420▲ 3.3×3 topics
  38. Battery Materials2,322▲ 3.5×1 topic
  39. Nanostructured Anodes2,322▲ 3.5×1 topic
  40. Neuromorphic Computing2,178▲ 4.7×2 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?

South Korea has out-published Austria every year since 1995, when it overtook it.

still counting50k100kSouth Korea93k 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 counting1.0%2.0%3.0%South Korea1.6% 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%South Korea11.0% in 2025Austria10.6% 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 02 level3 South Korea
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 4In the top 5009
  4. 9In the top 1,00022
  5. #20Elite capacityrank among 204 countries#12

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 South Korea?

South Korea publishes 4.0× as much research as Austria in 2022-now (358k against 90k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Austria or South Korea?

10.7% of Austria's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 10.5% for South Korea.

Is Austria or South Korea growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +7% against 2018-21 for South Korea, and +4% for Austria.

Which has more open access research, Austria or South Korea?

43% of South Korea's research is free to read, against 37% of Austria's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Austria or South Korea?

Austria holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and South Korea 0; in the top 1,000 it is 9 against 22.

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

South Korea

  1. 1Seoul National University11.1% top 10% · 24k works
  2. 2Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology14.1% top 10% · 9.8k works
  3. 3Yonsei University12.4% top 10% · 19k works
  4. 4Sungkyunkwan University12.0% top 10% · 14k works
  5. 5Korea University13.0% top 10% · 12k works
  6. 6Pohang University of Science and Technology13.4% top 10% · 4.4k 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

South Korea

  1. 1 Jaephil Cho #242 worldwide 73k citations · 550 works
  2. 2 Taeghwan Hyeon #270 worldwide 112k citations · 685 works
  3. 3 Yang‐Kook Sun #542 worldwide 98k citations · 1,172 works
  4. 4 Kisuk Kang #565 worldwide 55k citations · 492 works
  5. 5 Dae‐Hyeong Kim #606 worldwide 55k citations · 311 works

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