India
- World rank, 2022-now
- #12
- #20 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 1.4M
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 13.0%
- 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.
Pakistan
- World rank, 2022-now
- #41
- #41 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 170k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 15.1%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 61%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: General Dentistry, Drug Discovery, Modeling and Simulation.
Who leads in each field?
India stands higher in 25 of 26 fields, Pakistan in 1. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- #8Agricultural and Biological Sciences#21
- #23Arts and Humanities#57
- #12Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#36
- #19Business, Management and Accounting#32
- #4Chemical Engineering#20
- #4Chemistry#8
- #6Computer Science#17
- #7Decision Sciences#17
- #31Dentistry#49
- #11Earth and Planetary Sciences#35
- #10Economics, Econometrics and Finance#28
- #3Energy#16
- #4Engineering#20
- #7Environmental Science#32
- #16Health Professions#37
- #14Immunology and Microbiology#45
- #3Materials Science#16
- #8Mathematics#7
- #22Medicine#54
- #13Neuroscience#44
- #27Nursing#57
- #6Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#22
- #14Physics and Astronomy#27
- #33Psychology#61
- #32Social Sciences#58
- #23Veterinary-
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?
Fractional works per year. The latest, partial year is left off.
Which publishes more research, India or Pakistan?
India publishes 8.2× as much research as Pakistan in 2022-now (1.4M against 170k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, India or Pakistan?
15.1% of Pakistan's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 13.0% for India.
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
- 1Vellore Institute of Technology University20.3% top 10% · 20k works
- 2Lovely Professional University19.3% top 10% · 10k works
- 3Saveetha University16.6% top 10% · 20k works
- 4Manipal Academy of Higher Education19.0% top 10% · 10k works
- 5Jamia Millia Islamia21.0% top 10% · 4.1k works
- 6University of Petroleum and Energy Studies24.1% top 10% · 3.6k works
Pakistan
- 1COMSATS University Islamabad26.2% top 10% · 4.8k works
- 2National University of Sciences and Technology23.4% top 10% · 4.2k works
- 3Islamia University of Bahawalpur22.6% top 10% · 3.4k works
- 4Government College University, Faisalabad22.0% top 10% · 3.2k works
- 5Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan23.8% top 10% · 1.9k works
- 6University of Sargodha18.1% top 10% · 2.4k 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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Questions people ask
Which is stronger in research, India or Pakistan?
On research quality in 2022-now, India ranks #12 in the world and Pakistan #41, of 189 countries. India stands higher in 25 of the 26 fields both publish in, Pakistan in 1.