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On research quality in 2022-now, Poland ranks #23 in the world and the Czechia #26, of 189 countries. The Czechia stands higher in 8 of the 26 fields both publish in, Poland in 18.

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Czechia

World rank, 2022-now
#26
#30 all time
Works, 2022-now
83k
fractional
Top-10% rate
8.5%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
44%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Structural Biology, Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Poland

World rank, 2022-now
#23
#28 all time
Works, 2022-now
250k
fractional
Top-10% rate
9.2%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
49%
of its works free to read

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

Who leads, measure by measure?

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

Czechia 31 level5 Poland
  1. #26Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#23
  2. 0.85×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.93×
  3. 83kOutputfractional works, 2022-now250k
  4. 8.5%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited9.2%
  5. 14.2Citations per workall time, per fractional work9.2
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 44%Open accessof its works free to read, all time49%
  8. 31%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time13%
  9. -3%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change-11%

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?

Czechia stands higher in 8 of 26 fields, Poland in 18. Poland leads most in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (#18 against #25); The Czechia leads most in Earth and Planetary Sciences (#25 against #35). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Czechia 818 Poland
  1. #23Agricultural and Biological Sciences#21
  2. #28Arts and Humanities#19
  3. #22Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#25
  4. #30Business, Management and Accounting#25
  5. #27Chemical Engineering#25
  6. #24Chemistry#17
  7. #31Computer Science#23
  8. #31Decision Sciences#30
  9. -Dentistry#18
  10. #25Earth and Planetary Sciences#35
  11. #25Economics, Econometrics and Finance#21
  12. #31Energy#22
  13. #31Engineering#25
  14. #27Environmental Science#28
  15. #32Health Professions#28
  16. #26Immunology and Microbiology#30
  17. #26Materials Science#17
  18. #26Mathematics#24
  19. #27Medicine#29
  20. #26Neuroscience#29
  21. #31Nursing#21
  22. #25Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#18
  23. #21Physics and Astronomy#23
  24. #28Psychology#30
  25. #29Social Sciences#24
  26. -Veterinary#16

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 Czechia rankPoland rank Czechia top 10%Poland top 10% Czechia worksPoland works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #23 #21 10.3% 11.8% 5.2k 12k
Arts and Humanities #28 #19 9.9% 9.8% 2.9k 17k
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #22 #25 8.9% 9.3% 5.1k 12k
Business, Management and Accounting #30 #25 9.5% 8.7% 1.9k 7.4k
Chemical Engineering #27 #25 5.7% 7.2% 325 905
Chemistry #24 #17 7.2% 9.0% 1.8k 4.5k
Computer Science #31 #23 8.1% 8.1% 5.4k 11k
Decision Sciences #31 #30 7.0% 8.1% 795 1.7k
Dentistry - #18 - 20.1% - 965
Earth and Planetary Sciences #25 #35 7.0% 7.1% 1.9k 3.3k
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #25 #21 11.0% 8.5% 1.9k 6.7k
Energy #31 #22 8.3% 10.1% 605 2.1k
Engineering #31 #25 6.5% 8.3% 14k 32k
Environmental Science #27 #28 8.8% 9.0% 5.1k 12k
Health Professions #32 #28 8.4% 10.4% 1.2k 3.7k
Immunology and Microbiology #26 #30 9.3% 9.9% 822 2.1k
Materials Science #26 #17 6.8% 7.2% 4k 8.7k
Mathematics #26 #24 9.4% 8.1% 1.3k 2.9k
Medicine #27 #29 8.9% 10.5% 12k 40k
Neuroscience #26 #29 7.4% 8.9% 1.3k 3.4k
Nursing #31 #21 9.2% 12.0% 304 1.3k
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics #25 #18 7.1% 12.5% 297 779
Physics and Astronomy #21 #23 8.8% 7.3% 3.1k 5.6k
Psychology #28 #30 8.8% 8.2% 2.1k 7k
Social Sciences #29 #24 9.9% 8.7% 10k 50k
Veterinary - #16 - 10.4% - 359

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.

Czechia

▲ 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. Climate Change3,523▲ 1.36×131 topics
  2. Epidemiology2,794▼ 0.73×140 topics
  3. Machine Learning2,315▼ 0.73×97 topics
  4. Sustainability2,225◆ 0.95×138 topics
  5. Deep Learning1,970▼ 0.60×85 topics
  6. Environmental Impact1,880▲ 1.16×74 topics
  7. Globalization1,752◆ 0.93×183 topics
  8. Mechanical Properties1,582▲ 1.69×39 topics
  9. Biodiversity1,573▲ 2.2×38 topics
  10. Inflammation1,488▼ 0.73×83 topics
  11. Biomedical Applications1,442▲ 1.28×36 topics
  12. Oxidative Stress1,441◆ 0.92×63 topics
  13. Nanoparticles1,376◆ 1.14×44 topics
  14. Invasive Species1,340▲ 3.3×21 topics
  15. Sustainable Development1,261▼ 0.84×111 topics
  16. Human Rights1,091◆ 1.12×90 topics
  17. Nanomaterials1,042◆ 1.04×21 topics
  18. Nanocomposites992▲ 1.32×22 topics
  19. Identity959▲ 1.39×79 topics
  20. Microstructure916▲ 1.85×19 topics
  21. Conservation908▲ 2.2×24 topics
  22. Literature858▲ 1.64×63 topics
  23. History848▲ 1.28×65 topics
  24. Biogeography828▲ 3.1×20 topics
  25. Phylogenetic Analysis746▲ 2.5×16 topics
  26. Nationalism729▲ 1.70×34 topics
  27. Digital Education714▲ 5.0×7 topics
  28. Philosophy712▲ 1.68×46 topics
  29. Ethnicity669▲ 1.87×24 topics
  30. Evolution654▲ 2.6×19 topics
  31. Phylogeny634▲ 4.0×17 topics
  32. Habitat Fragmentation631▲ 3.1×5 topics
  33. Global Change627▲ 2.5×7 topics
  34. School Climate617▲ 14×3 topics
  35. Learning Environments602▲ 22×3 topics
  36. Student Attitudes595▲ 6.2×2 topics
  37. Educational Methods588▲ 109×1 topic
  38. Pedagogical Research588▲ 109×1 topic
  39. Taxonomy568▲ 4.1×15 topics
  40. DNA Barcoding546▲ 3.3×9 topics

Poland

▲ 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. Globalization11k▲ 2.1×185 topics
  2. Education10k▲ 2.2×159 topics
  3. Cultural Studies7,244▲ 7.1×45 topics
  4. European Union7,132▲ 12×29 topics
  5. Human Rights6,479▲ 2.3×90 topics
  6. Nationalism6,245▲ 5.0×34 topics
  7. Migration6,012▲ 6.4×35 topics
  8. Ethnography5,863▲ 12×16 topics
  9. Innovation5,612▲ 1.97×90 topics
  10. Literature5,338▲ 3.5×64 topics
  11. Eastern Europe5,308▲ 37×3 topics
  12. Soviet Union5,301▲ 35×3 topics
  13. Pedagogy4,873▲ 3.5×30 topics
  14. Cultural Identity4,864▲ 3.5×40 topics
  15. Cultural Discourse4,864▲ 49×3 topics
  16. Polish history4,844▲ 71×1 topic
  17. Polish minority4,844▲ 71×1 topic
  18. Ethics4,813▲ 3.4×62 topics
  19. Cultural Heritage4,748▲ 3.2×40 topics
  20. Sociolinguistics4,605▲ 9.1×9 topics
  21. Culture4,528▲ 3.1×40 topics
  22. Language4,404▲ 6.4×15 topics
  23. Urban Development4,401▲ 4.5×23 topics
  24. Multilingualism4,107▲ 9.2×6 topics
  25. Lexicography4,106▲ 17×5 topics
  26. Translation4,103▲ 9.0×7 topics
  27. Media Discourse3,674▲ 21×4 topics
  28. Social Sciences3,670▲ 9.2×24 topics
  29. Lifelong Learning3,640▲ 6.4×11 topics
  30. Ethnolinguistics3,637▲ 44×2 topics
  31. Public Administration3,554▲ 16×6 topics
  32. European Union Law3,482▲ 79×2 topics
  33. Youth Development3,383▲ 13×9 topics
  34. Digital Innovations3,236▲ 81×1 topic
  35. National Identity3,110▲ 9.7×11 topics
  36. Social Change3,067▲ 9.0×21 topics
  37. Data Privacy2,893▲ 9.6×4 topics
  38. Historiography2,859▲ 8.5×15 topics
  39. Memory Studies2,850▲ 16×6 topics
  40. Anthropology2,767▲ 11×11 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?

Poland has out-published the Czechia every year since 1980.

still counting50k100kPoland64k in 2025Czechia22k 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%Poland1.1% in 2025Czechia0.38% 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%Poland9.2% in 2025Czechia8.9% 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.

Czechia 23 level0 Poland
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 2In the top 5001
  4. 5In the top 1,0005
  5. #28Elite capacityrank among 204 countries#29

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, Czechia or Poland?

Poland publishes 3.0× as much research as the Czechia in 2022-now (250k against 83k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Czechia or Poland?

9.2% of Poland's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 8.5% for the Czechia.

Is Czechia or Poland growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was -3% against 2018-21 for the Czechia, and -11% for Poland.

Which has more open access research, Czechia or Poland?

49% of Poland's research is free to read, against 44% of the Czechia's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Czechia or Poland?

The Czechia holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Poland 0; in the top 1,000 it is 5 against 5.

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%.

Czechia

  1. 1Czech Academy of Sciences8.3% top 10% · 14k works
  2. 2Charles University9.8% top 10% · 9.7k works
  3. 3Masaryk University9.8% top 10% · 6.1k works
  4. 4VSB - Technical University of Ostrava9.9% top 10% · 2.6k works
  5. 5Palacký University Olomouc9.4% top 10% · 3.3k works
  6. 6Czech University of Life Sciences Prague13.8% top 10% · 2.1k works

Poland

  1. 1Polish Academy of Sciences9.4% top 10% · 21k works
  2. 2Jagiellonian University8.7% top 10% · 14k works
  3. 3University of Warsaw8.8% top 10% · 11k works
  4. 4AGH University of Krakow9.1% top 10% · 8k works
  5. 5University of Wrocław7.6% top 10% · 4.2k works
  6. 6Wrocław University of Science and Technology8.6% top 10% · 3.4k 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.

Czechia

  1. 1 Petr Baldrián #105 worldwide 38k citations · 8,877 works
  2. 2 C. Søgaard #2,458 worldwide 20k citations · 139 works
  3. 3 L. Montaño Zetina #2,558 worldwide 18k citations · 105 works
  4. 4 Francesco de Bello #4,452 worldwide 26k citations · 293 works
  5. 5 M. Vajzer #4,462 worldwide 14k citations · 88 works

Poland

  1. 1 P. Jaranowski #637 worldwide 94k citations · 375 works
  2. 2 T. Kunigo #1,235 worldwide 24k citations · 283 works
  3. 3 N. Haddad #1,253 worldwide 21k citations · 240 works
  4. 4 O. Arslan #1,266 worldwide 42k citations · 484 works
  5. 5 M. Lisovyi #1,357 worldwide 65k citations · 863 works

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