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Belgium vs Poland

On research quality in 2022-now, Poland ranks #17 in the world and Belgium #19, of 189 countries. Belgium stands higher in 12 of the 26 fields both publish in, Poland in 14.

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.

Poland

World rank, 2022-now
#17
#28 all time
Works, 2022-now
250k
fractional
Top-10% rate
14.2%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
48%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Linguistics and Language, General Social Sciences, History.

Who leads in each field?

Belgium stands higher in 12 of 26 fields, Poland in 14. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Belgium 1214 Poland
  1. #20Agricultural and Biological Sciences#14
  2. #21Arts and Humanities#11
  3. #18Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#19
  4. #35Business, Management and Accounting#30
  5. #11Chemical Engineering#26
  6. #29Chemistry#21
  7. #40Computer Science#32
  8. #23Decision Sciences#37
  9. #27Dentistry#6
  10. #18Earth and Planetary Sciences#41
  11. #37Economics, Econometrics and Finance#17
  12. #38Energy#19
  13. #29Engineering#23
  14. #24Environmental Science#25
  15. #31Health Professions#24
  16. #12Immunology and Microbiology#16
  17. #38Materials Science#17
  18. #26Mathematics#31
  19. #15Medicine#18
  20. #18Neuroscience#24
  21. #35Nursing#12
  22. #30Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#20
  23. #18Physics and Astronomy#23
  24. #21Psychology#30
  25. #23Social Sciences#22
  26. #15Veterinary#17

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?

50k100kPoland64k in 2025Belgium27k in 20251990200020102020

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

Which publishes more research, Belgium or Poland?

Poland publishes 2.4× as much research as Belgium in 2022-now (250k against 106k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Belgium or Poland?

19.4% of Belgium's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 14.2% for Poland.

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

Poland

  1. 1Jagiellonian University14.0% top 10% · 14k works
  2. 2University of Warsaw14.6% top 10% · 11k works
  3. 3University of Łódź14.0% top 10% · 5.9k works
  4. 4University of Rzeszów15.0% top 10% · 3.2k works
  5. 5Warsaw University of Life Sciences18.6% top 10% · 3.4k works
  6. 6Polish Academy of Sciences16.9% top 10% · 5.9k 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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