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Finland vs Japan

On research quality in 2022-now, Finland ranks #25 in the world and Japan #27, of 189 countries. Finland stands higher in 13 of the 26 fields both publish in, Japan in 13.

Finland

World rank, 2022-now
#25
#22 all time
Works, 2022-now
70k
fractional
Top-10% rate
24.1%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
43%
of its works free to read

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

Japan

World rank, 2022-now
#27
#14 all time
Works, 2022-now
558k
fractional
Top-10% rate
10.7%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
42%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Condensed Matter Physics, Structural Biology, Gastroenterology.

Who leads in each field?

Finland stands higher in 13 of 26 fields, Japan in 13. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Finland 1313 Japan
  1. #36Agricultural and Biological Sciences#41
  2. #22Arts and Humanities#36
  3. #28Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#21
  4. #20Business, Management and Accounting#61
  5. #36Chemical Engineering#25
  6. #42Chemistry#27
  7. #28Computer Science#37
  8. #30Decision Sciences#51
  9. #32Dentistry#21
  10. #26Earth and Planetary Sciences#25
  11. #45Economics, Econometrics and Finance#34
  12. #25Energy#28
  13. #27Engineering#33
  14. #22Environmental Science#33
  15. #27Health Professions#46
  16. #36Immunology and Microbiology#17
  17. #29Materials Science#26
  18. #32Mathematics#24
  19. #28Medicine#16
  20. #20Neuroscience#26
  21. #21Nursing#52
  22. -Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#31
  23. #22Physics and Astronomy#11
  24. #17Psychology#38
  25. #20Social Sciences#44
  26. -Veterinary#25

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?

50k100k150kJapan144k in 2025Finland19k in 20251990200020102020

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

Which publishes more research, Finland or Japan?

Japan publishes 7.9× as much research as Finland in 2022-now (558k against 70k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Finland or Japan?

24.1% of Finland's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 10.7% for Japan.

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%.

Finland

  1. 1University of Helsinki25.0% top 10% · 12k works
  2. 2University of Oulu26.8% top 10% · 5.1k works
  3. 3Aalto University23.5% top 10% · 6.2k works
  4. 4University of Turku23.1% top 10% · 5.7k works
  5. 5University of Eastern Finland24.9% top 10% · 4k works
  6. 6Tampere University23.7% top 10% · 5.9k works

Japan

  1. 1The University of Tokyo15.7% top 10% · 25k works
  2. 2Kyoto University15.1% top 10% · 15k works
  3. 3The University of Osaka12.4% top 10% · 13k works
  4. 4Tohoku University13.9% top 10% · 13k works
  5. 5Nagoya University13.0% top 10% · 9.7k works
  6. 6Kyushu University13.0% top 10% · 11k 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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