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India vs Israel

On research quality in 2022-now, India ranks #18 in the world and Israel #20, of 189 countries. India stands higher in 13 of the 26 fields both publish in, Israel in 13.

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India

World rank, 2022-now
#18
#20 all time
Works, 2022-now
1.4M
fractional
Top-10% rate
6.5%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
40%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical Science, Complementary and alternative medicine.

Israel

World rank, 2022-now
#20
#18 all time
Works, 2022-now
79k
fractional
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
30%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Archeology, Space and Planetary Science, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics.

Who leads, measure by measure?

India leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, output, open access and growth. Israel leads on 4 of 9 measures: excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work and international co-authorship. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

India 41 level4 Israel
  1. #18Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#20
  2. 0.67×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected1.03×
  3. 1.4MOutputfractional works, 2022-now79k
  4. 6.5%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited10.5%
  5. 12.0Citations per workall time, per fractional work28.6
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 40%Open accessof its works free to read, all time30%
  8. 11%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time21%
  9. +48%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+1%

A rank is drawn as its standing: the longer the bar, the nearer the top. Anything else is drawn against the larger of the two, and two values a hair apart are called level. Quality, excellence and the top-10% rate are explained in the methodology.

Who leads in each field?

India stands higher in 13 of 26 fields, Israel in 13. India leads most in Chemistry (#5 against #18); Israel leads most in Psychology (#12 against #35). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

India 1313 Israel
  1. #17Agricultural and Biological Sciences#19
  2. #23Arts and Humanities#14
  3. #21Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#15
  4. #18Business, Management and Accounting#27
  5. #6Chemical Engineering-
  6. #5Chemistry#18
  7. #19Computer Science#17
  8. #14Decision Sciences#23
  9. #27Dentistry#16
  10. #23Earth and Planetary Sciences#14
  11. #20Economics, Econometrics and Finance#23
  12. #15Energy#25
  13. #15Engineering#23
  14. #18Environmental Science#24
  15. #23Health Professions#18
  16. #28Immunology and Microbiology#16
  17. #14Materials Science#18
  18. #17Mathematics#18
  19. #30Medicine#20
  20. #27Neuroscience#14
  21. #23Nursing#22
  22. #8Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics-
  23. #19Physics and Astronomy#15
  24. #35Psychology#12
  25. #36Social Sciences#19
  26. #19Veterinary-

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.

The numbers behind each field

Click a heading to sort. The side that does better in a pair of columns is shaded: a lower rank, a higher rate, more works.

Field India rankIsrael rank India top 10%Israel top 10% India worksIsrael works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #17 #19 6.9% 12.0% 108k 2k
Arts and Humanities #23 #14 8.5% 13.9% 17k 3.6k
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #21 #15 6.2% 10.4% 70k 5.3k
Business, Management and Accounting #18 #27 8.9% 10.5% 37k 1.1k
Chemical Engineering #6 - 7.6% - 5.8k -
Chemistry #5 #18 7.8% 10.1% 38k 848
Computer Science #19 #17 6.5% 10.3% 167k 5.8k
Decision Sciences #14 #23 7.7% 8.6% 15k 723
Dentistry #27 #16 4.1% 12.2% 15k 328
Earth and Planetary Sciences #23 #14 7.0% 9.1% 14k 1.2k
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #20 #23 7.3% 8.6% 22k 1.1k
Energy #15 #25 6.9% 6.4% 17k 348
Engineering #15 #23 7.0% 8.3% 261k 6.7k
Environmental Science #18 #24 7.7% 9.1% 65k 2.4k
Health Professions #23 #18 6.8% 11.2% 29k 2k
Immunology and Microbiology #28 #16 5.7% 10.7% 10k 918
Materials Science #14 #18 7.2% 8.3% 71k 1.7k
Mathematics #17 #18 9.0% 9.4% 17k 1.9k
Medicine #30 #20 4.8% 9.9% 254k 19k
Neuroscience #27 #14 5.9% 9.6% 19k 2.4k
Nursing #23 #22 6.6% 10.7% 8.5k 327
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics #8 - 6.4% - 11k -
Physics and Astronomy #19 #15 6.2% 9.7% 26k 3.2k
Psychology #35 #12 5.2% 11.7% 26k 5.1k
Social Sciences #36 #19 7.2% 13.3% 61k 9.9k
Veterinary #19 - 4.3% - 1.6k -

What is each known for?

The keywords that describe each side's research, by fractional works in 2022-now and weighted toward what it does more of than the world.

India

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Deep Learning122k▲ 2.2×85 topics
  2. Machine Learning110k▲ 2.0×97 topics
  3. Epidemiology62k◆ 0.97×140 topics
  4. Sustainability43k◆ 1.10×139 topics
  5. Climate Change40k◆ 0.92×132 topics
  6. Neural Networks37k▲ 1.50×42 topics
  7. Healthcare37k▲ 1.99×43 topics
  8. Nanoparticles34k▲ 1.68×44 topics
  9. Environmental Impact34k▲ 1.22×74 topics
  10. Internet of Things32k▲ 2.3×33 topics
  11. Artificial Intelligence29k▲ 1.28×67 topics
  12. Convolutional Neural Networks29k▲ 2.5×14 topics
  13. Biomedical Applications29k▲ 1.51×36 topics
  14. Nanomaterials29k▲ 1.71×21 topics
  15. Inflammation29k▼ 0.84×83 topics
  16. Security29k▲ 2.6×31 topics
  17. Oxidative Stress28k◆ 1.04×63 topics
  18. Renewable Energy27k▲ 1.18×61 topics
  19. Antioxidant24k▲ 2.2×51 topics
  20. COVID-1924k◆ 1.13×34 topics
  21. Mechanical Properties23k▲ 1.44×39 topics
  22. Data Mining22k▲ 1.88×25 topics
  23. Wireless Sensor Networks22k▲ 3.1×23 topics
  24. Energy Efficiency22k▲ 1.47×46 topics
  25. Big Data21k▲ 1.37×37 topics
  26. Medical Imaging19k▲ 2.2×9 topics
  27. Graphene19k▲ 1.74×12 topics
  28. Feature Extraction19k▲ 2.6×10 topics
  29. IoT18k▲ 3.0×19 topics
  30. Environmental Monitoring18k▲ 2.9×19 topics
  31. Image Processing18k▲ 2.5×14 topics
  32. IoT Security17k▲ 3.5×3 topics
  33. Classification17k▲ 2.3×13 topics
  34. Smart Cities14k▲ 3.4×8 topics
  35. Big Data Analytics13k▲ 3.9×5 topics
  36. Privacy13k▲ 2.8×11 topics
  37. Cybersecurity13k▲ 3.1×6 topics
  38. Feature Selection12k▲ 3.5×6 topics
  39. India11k▲ 9.1×4 topics
  40. Smart Farming10k▲ 5.5×2 topics

Israel

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology4,846▲ 1.35×139 topics
  2. Mental Health2,395▲ 1.86×48 topics
  3. Machine Learning2,283▼ 0.76×93 topics
  4. Deep Learning2,110▼ 0.68×83 topics
  5. Inflammation2,017◆ 1.06×83 topics
  6. Climate Change1,929▼ 0.79×126 topics
  7. Quality of Life1,770▲ 1.36×61 topics
  8. Treatment1,539▲ 1.41×52 topics
  9. Human Rights1,514▲ 1.65×90 topics
  10. Globalization1,450▼ 0.82×173 topics
  11. Public Health1,410◆ 1.08×75 topics
  12. Palestine1,410▲ 29×2 topics
  13. Oxidative Stress1,381◆ 0.93×63 topics
  14. Nationalism1,258▲ 3.1×33 topics
  15. Risk Factors1,206▲ 1.22×37 topics
  16. Depression1,153▲ 1.46×26 topics
  17. Diagnosis1,084▲ 1.29×41 topics
  18. Discrimination1,079▲ 5.7×10 topics
  19. Genetics1,071▲ 1.69×27 topics
  20. Israel1,038▲ 34×2 topics
  21. Management928▲ 1.29×40 topics
  22. Resilience913▲ 2.1×18 topics
  23. Ethnic Identity862▲ 8.6×9 topics
  24. Occupation860▲ 16×3 topics
  25. Meta-Analysis843▲ 1.59×21 topics
  26. Neurological Disorders835▲ 1.63×20 topics
  27. Segregation826▲ 12×3 topics
  28. Settler Colonialism826▲ 22×2 topics
  29. Intifada822▲ 34×1 topic
  30. Anxiety810▲ 1.90×12 topics
  31. Religion801▲ 1.92×43 topics
  32. Emotion Regulation794▲ 2.8×9 topics
  33. Trauma750▲ 4.0×12 topics
  34. Urban Development727▲ 2.3×23 topics
  35. Psychological Impact675▲ 2.4×11 topics
  36. Semitic Languages635▲ 18×2 topics
  37. Archaeological Evidence634▲ 15×2 topics
  38. Arabia588▲ 24×1 topic
  39. Byzantine588▲ 24×1 topic
  40. Archaeology540▲ 4.7×11 topics

Size is fractional works in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of the side's work against its share of the world's. Each word links to the topic it comes from most.

How has their output grown?

India has out-published Israel every year since 1980.

still counting200k400kIndia391k in 2025Israel21k in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works per year.

Their share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share, because all of science grows. Each line is a side as a percentage of every work published that year.

still counting2.5%5.0%7.5%India6.7% in 2025Israel0.35% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

The share of each side's works, year by year, that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. The average of all institutions is 10.0% (why not 10%).

still counting5%10%15%Israel11.1% in 2025India6.6% in 2025200020102020

A year with under 1% of the side's peak output is left out: a rate over a handful of papers says nothing. The latest years are still being cited.

Who holds more of the world's best institutions?

A country's average quality and the number of institutions it holds at the very top can disagree, and both are worth knowing. The counts are nested: an institution in the top 50 is also in the top 100.

India 22 level1 Israel
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 2In the top 5005
  4. 15In the top 1,0007
  5. #16Elite capacityrank among 204 countries#21

Institutions ranked on research quality, 2022-now. Elite capacity counts a country's institutions by their worldwide rank, weighted so a place at #1 counts for more than one at #480.

Which publishes more research, India or Israel?

India publishes 17.6× as much research as Israel in 2022-now (1.4M against 79k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, India or Israel?

10.5% of Israel's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.5% for India.

Is India or Israel growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +48% against 2018-21 for India, and +1% for Israel.

Which has more open access research, India or Israel?

40% of India's research is free to read, against 30% of Israel's.

Which has more world-class institutions, India or Israel?

India holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Israel 0; in the top 1,000 it is 15 against 7.

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%.

India

  1. 1Indian Institute of Science Bangalore7.1% top 10% · 8.1k works
  2. 2Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur9.3% top 10% · 10k works
  3. 3Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati7.3% top 10% · 7k works
  4. 4Indian Institute of Technology Bombay6.4% top 10% · 9.1k works
  5. 5Indian Institute of Technology Madras6.3% top 10% · 9.4k works
  6. 6Indian Institute of Technology Delhi8.4% top 10% · 11k works

Israel

  1. 1Tel Aviv University10.7% top 10% · 16k works
  2. 2Hebrew University of Jerusalem10.5% top 10% · 11k works
  3. 3Weizmann Institute of Science15.7% top 10% · 2.9k works
  4. 4Technion – Israel Institute of Technology9.8% top 10% · 7.8k works
  5. 5Ben-Gurion University of the Negev8.9% top 10% · 7.6k works
  6. 6Bar-Ilan University10.2% top 10% · 5.6k 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, 10.0% (how it is set): 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.

Who are the top researchers on each side?

The most cited researchers on each side, among those ranked.

India

  1. 1 Sanjit Mitra #61 worldwide 167k citations · 467 works
  2. 2 C. Mishra #208 worldwide 84k citations · 251 works
  3. 3 Sachin Kumar Mangla #416 worldwide 25k citations · 373 works
  4. 4 S. J. Kapadia #575 worldwide 52k citations · 233 works
  5. 5 P. Ajith #693 worldwide 82k citations · 285 works

Israel

  1. 1 Ido Amit #335 worldwide 106k citations · 478 works
  2. 2 Shalom H. Schwartz #543 worldwide 94k citations · 279 works
  3. 3 A. Bruni #866 worldwide 75k citations · 682 works
  4. 4 Kaiming He #903 worldwide 562k citations · 164 works
  5. 5 F. Rühr #963 worldwide 85k citations · 1,063 works

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