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Denmark vs Sweden

On research quality in 2022-now, Sweden ranks #15 in the world and Denmark #18, of 189 countries. Denmark stands higher in 2 of the 26 fields both publish in, Sweden in 24.

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.

Sweden

World rank, 2022-now
#15
#12 all time
Works, 2022-now
121k
fractional
Top-10% rate
24.7%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
41%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Public Administration, Research and Theory, Equine.

Who leads in each field?

Denmark stands higher in 2 of 26 fields, Sweden in 24. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Denmark 224 Sweden
  1. #24Agricultural and Biological Sciences#17
  2. #28Arts and Humanities#20
  3. #15Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#14
  4. #38Business, Management and Accounting#15
  5. #21Chemical Engineering#17
  6. #31Chemistry#24
  7. #43Computer Science#25
  8. #35Decision Sciences#21
  9. #33Dentistry#22
  10. #17Earth and Planetary Sciences#16
  11. #42Economics, Econometrics and Finance#26
  12. #18Energy#26
  13. #31Engineering#19
  14. #23Environmental Science#14
  15. #26Health Professions#12
  16. #23Immunology and Microbiology#18
  17. #39Materials Science#22
  18. #40Mathematics#18
  19. #14Medicine#12
  20. #16Neuroscience#14
  21. #37Nursing#26
  22. #26Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#27
  23. #20Physics and Astronomy#13
  24. #29Psychology#13
  25. #26Social Sciences#16
  26. #13Veterinary#10

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?

20k40kSweden31k in 2025Denmark22k in 20251990200020102020

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

Which publishes more research, Denmark or Sweden?

Sweden publishes 1.2× as much research as Denmark in 2022-now (121k against 99k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Denmark or Sweden?

24.7% of Sweden'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

Sweden

  1. 1Uppsala University24.8% top 10% · 11k works
  2. 2Lund University24.7% top 10% · 12k works
  3. 3Karolinska Institutet26.3% top 10% · 8.9k works
  4. 4University of Gothenburg27.3% top 10% · 8k works
  5. 5Stockholm University28.8% top 10% · 6.6k works
  6. 6Linköping University25.1% top 10% · 5.7k 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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Which is stronger in research, Sweden or Denmark?

On research quality in 2022-now, Sweden ranks #15 in the world and Denmark #18, of 189 countries. Denmark stands higher in 2 of the 26 fields both publish in, Sweden in 24.

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