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Greece vs Japan

On research quality in 2022-now, Japan ranks #27 in the world and Greece #28, of 189 countries. Greece stands higher in 12 of the 26 fields both publish in, Japan in 14.

Greece

World rank, 2022-now
#28
#32 all time
Works, 2022-now
88k
fractional
Top-10% rate
21.1%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
42%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Space and Planetary Science, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management, Classics.

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?

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

Greece 1214 Japan
  1. #26Agricultural and Biological Sciences#41
  2. #37Arts and Humanities#36
  3. #27Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#21
  4. #22Business, Management and Accounting#61
  5. #34Chemical Engineering#25
  6. #32Chemistry#27
  7. #22Computer Science#37
  8. #31Decision Sciences#51
  9. #29Dentistry#21
  10. #29Earth and Planetary Sciences#25
  11. #25Economics, Econometrics and Finance#34
  12. #39Energy#28
  13. #25Engineering#33
  14. #27Environmental Science#33
  15. #23Health Professions#46
  16. #26Immunology and Microbiology#17
  17. #50Materials Science#26
  18. #45Mathematics#24
  19. #23Medicine#16
  20. #22Neuroscience#26
  21. #20Nursing#52
  22. #35Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#31
  23. #40Physics and Astronomy#11
  24. #23Psychology#38
  25. #36Social 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 2025Greece24k in 20251990200020102020

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

Which publishes more research, Greece or Japan?

Japan publishes 6.3× as much research as Greece in 2022-now (558k against 88k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Greece or Japan?

21.1% of Greece'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%.

Greece

  1. 1National and Kapodistrian University of Athens21.8% top 10% · 10k works
  2. 2Aristotle University of Thessaloniki20.4% top 10% · 10k works
  3. 3University of Patras22.9% top 10% · 5k works
  4. 4University of Thessaly24.5% top 10% · 4.2k works
  5. 5Democritus University of Thrace22.5% top 10% · 3k works
  6. 6University of Ioannina21.3% top 10% · 3.1k 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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