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Belgium vs Norway

On research quality in 2022-now, Belgium ranks #19 in the world and Norway #21, of 189 countries. Belgium stands higher in 15 of the 26 fields both publish in, Norway in 11.

Belgium

World rank, 2022-now
#19
#13 all time
Works, 2022-now
106k
fractional
Top-10% rate
19.4%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
43%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Medical Terminology, Equine, Insect Science.

Norway

World rank, 2022-now
#21
#17 all time
Works, 2022-now
81k
fractional
Top-10% rate
23.8%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
47%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Public Administration, Research and Theory, Ocean Engineering.

Who leads in each field?

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

Belgium 1511 Norway
  1. #20Agricultural and Biological Sciences#40
  2. #21Arts and Humanities#17
  3. #18Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#32
  4. #35Business, Management and Accounting#26
  5. #11Chemical Engineering#32
  6. #29Chemistry#50
  7. #40Computer Science#26
  8. #23Decision Sciences#24
  9. #27Dentistry#34
  10. #18Earth and Planetary Sciences#12
  11. #37Economics, Econometrics and Finance#33
  12. #38Energy#23
  13. #29Engineering#30
  14. #24Environmental Science#17
  15. #31Health Professions#18
  16. #12Immunology and Microbiology#25
  17. #38Materials Science#33
  18. #26Mathematics#28
  19. #15Medicine#21
  20. #18Neuroscience#19
  21. #35Nursing#47
  22. #30Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics-
  23. #18Physics and Astronomy#25
  24. #21Psychology#11
  25. #23Social Sciences#13
  26. #15Veterinary-

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?

20k40kBelgium27k in 2025Norway20k in 20251990200020102020

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

Which publishes more research, Belgium or Norway?

Belgium publishes 1.3× as much research as Norway in 2022-now (106k against 81k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Belgium or Norway?

23.8% of Norway's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 19.4% for Belgium.

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%.

Belgium

  1. 1KU Leuven22.9% top 10% · 18k works
  2. 2Ghent University25.0% top 10% · 11k works
  3. 3University of Antwerp24.4% top 10% · 5.9k works
  4. 4Vrije Universiteit Brussel23.8% top 10% · 5.3k works
  5. 5UCLouvain19.3% top 10% · 5.2k works
  6. 6Université Libre de Bruxelles20.4% top 10% · 5.2k works

Norway

  1. 1Norwegian University of Science and Technology25.8% top 10% · 11k works
  2. 2University of Oslo27.1% top 10% · 10k works
  3. 3University of Bergen25.3% top 10% · 5.4k works
  4. 4University of Agder29.2% top 10% · 2.1k works
  5. 5UiT The Arctic University of Norway23.8% top 10% · 3.2k works
  6. 6University of Stavanger28.2% top 10% · 2.8k 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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