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France vs Netherlands

On research quality in 2022-now, France ranks #7 in the world and the Netherlands #9, of 189 countries. France stands higher in 18 of the 26 fields both publish in, the Netherlands in 8.

France

World rank, 2022-now
#7
#5 all time
Works, 2022-now
553k
fractional
Top-10% rate
13.3%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
36%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Industrial relations, History and Philosophy of Science, Anthropology.

Netherlands

World rank, 2022-now
#9
#7 all time
Works, 2022-now
191k
fractional
Top-10% rate
25.2%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
48%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Medical Terminology, General Decision Sciences, Structural Biology.

Who leads in each field?

France stands higher in 18 of 26 fields, Netherlands in 8. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

France 188 Netherlands
  1. #9Agricultural and Biological Sciences#10
  2. #7Arts and Humanities#12
  3. #7Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#9
  4. #12Business, Management and Accounting#11
  5. #13Chemical Engineering#16
  6. #18Chemistry#19
  7. #20Computer Science#16
  8. #22Decision Sciences#6
  9. #14Dentistry#15
  10. #5Earth and Planetary Sciences#10
  11. #8Economics, Econometrics and Finance#9
  12. #21Energy#24
  13. #17Engineering#15
  14. #10Environmental Science#9
  15. #15Health Professions#9
  16. #6Immunology and Microbiology#8
  17. #19Materials Science#20
  18. #9Mathematics#21
  19. #6Medicine#7
  20. #7Neuroscience#8
  21. #19Nursing#16
  22. #18Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#19
  23. #6Physics and Astronomy#9
  24. #10Psychology#8
  25. #9Social Sciences#10
  26. #6Veterinary#9

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?

50k100k150kFrance127k in 2025Netherlands49k in 20251990200020102020

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

Which publishes more research, France or Netherlands?

France publishes 2.9× as much research as the Netherlands in 2022-now (553k against 191k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, France or Netherlands?

25.2% of the Netherlands's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 13.3% for France.

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%.

France

  1. 1Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique18.7% top 10% · 39k works
  2. 2Université Paris Cité18.4% top 10% · 8.6k works
  3. 3Inserm20.8% top 10% · 12k works
  4. 4Sorbonne Université15.9% top 10% · 10k works
  5. 5Université Paris-Saclay18.2% top 10% · 7.8k works
  6. 6Université Claude Bernard Lyon 115.1% top 10% · 6.2k works

Netherlands

  1. 1University of Amsterdam30.8% top 10% · 11k works
  2. 2Utrecht University28.8% top 10% · 11k works
  3. 3University of Groningen29.4% top 10% · 10k works
  4. 4Delft University of Technology25.1% top 10% · 14k works
  5. 5Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam28.7% top 10% · 7.9k works
  6. 6Radboud University Nijmegen26.0% top 10% · 8.5k 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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