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Denmark vs Singapore

On research quality in 2022-now, Singapore ranks #16 in the world and Denmark #18, of 189 countries. Denmark stands higher in 14 of the 26 fields both publish in, Singapore in 12.

Denmark

World rank, 2022-now
#18
#15 all time
Works, 2022-now
99k
fractional
Top-10% rate
21.5%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
40%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Public Administration, Architecture, Medical Terminology.

Singapore

World rank, 2022-now
#16
#21 all time
Works, 2022-now
70k
fractional
Top-10% rate
26.6%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
34%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Health Informatics, Hardware and Architecture, Acoustics and Ultrasonics.

Who leads in each field?

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

How has their output grown?

10k20k30kDenmark22k in 2025Singapore19k in 20251990200020102020

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

Which publishes more research, Denmark or Singapore?

Denmark publishes 1.4× as much research as Singapore in 2022-now (99k against 70k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Denmark or Singapore?

26.6% of Singapore's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 21.5% for Denmark.

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%.

Denmark

  1. 1University of Copenhagen26.5% top 10% · 14k works
  2. 2Aarhus University23.1% top 10% · 15k works
  3. 3University of Southern Denmark24.3% top 10% · 6.6k works
  4. 4Technical University of Denmark20.0% top 10% · 11k works
  5. 5Aalborg University19.2% top 10% · 11k works
  6. 6Copenhagen University Hospital22.9% top 10% · 2.9k works

Singapore

  1. 1National University of Singapore29.6% top 10% · 20k works
  2. 2Nanyang Technological University32.2% top 10% · 17k works
  3. 3Agency for Science, Technology and Research29.3% top 10% · 3k works
  4. 4Singapore Management University29.4% top 10% · 2.2k works
  5. 5Singapore University of Technology and Design30.3% top 10% · 1.9k works
  6. 6National University Health System28.0% top 10% · 1.3k 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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