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India vs South Korea

On research quality in 2022-now, India ranks #12 in the world and South Korea #13, of 189 countries. India stands higher in 16 of the 26 fields both publish in, South Korea in 10.

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.

South Korea

World rank, 2022-now
#13
#23 all time
Works, 2022-now
358k
fractional
Top-10% rate
18.2%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
43%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Leadership and Management, Polymers and Plastics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Who leads in each field?

India stands higher in 16 of 26 fields, South Korea in 10. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

India 1610 South Korea
  1. #8Agricultural and Biological Sciences#22
  2. #23Arts and Humanities#33
  3. #12Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#13
  4. #19Business, Management and Accounting#14
  5. #4Chemical Engineering#6
  6. #4Chemistry#15
  7. #6Computer Science#12
  8. #7Decision Sciences#10
  9. #31Dentistry#18
  10. #11Earth and Planetary Sciences#21
  11. #10Economics, Econometrics and Finance#20
  12. #3Energy#2
  13. #4Engineering#7
  14. #7Environmental Science#18
  15. #16Health Professions#13
  16. #14Immunology and Microbiology#13
  17. #3Materials Science#8
  18. #8Mathematics#10
  19. #22Medicine#13
  20. #13Neuroscience#12
  21. #27Nursing#2
  22. #6Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#12
  23. #14Physics and Astronomy#17
  24. #33Psychology#14
  25. #32Social Sciences#30
  26. #23Veterinary#26

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?

200k400kIndia391k in 2025South Korea93k in 20251990200020102020

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

Which publishes more research, India or South Korea?

India publishes 3.9× as much research as South Korea in 2022-now (1.4M against 358k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, India or South Korea?

18.2% of South Korea'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

  1. 1Vellore Institute of Technology University20.3% top 10% · 20k works
  2. 2Lovely Professional University19.3% top 10% · 10k works
  3. 3Saveetha University16.6% top 10% · 20k works
  4. 4Manipal Academy of Higher Education19.0% top 10% · 10k works
  5. 5Jamia Millia Islamia21.0% top 10% · 4.1k works
  6. 6University of Petroleum and Energy Studies24.1% top 10% · 3.6k works

South Korea

  1. 1Seoul National University20.0% top 10% · 16k works
  2. 2Sungkyunkwan University21.4% top 10% · 11k works
  3. 3Korea University23.7% top 10% · 11k works
  4. 4Yonsei University20.9% top 10% · 15k works
  5. 5Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology23.6% top 10% · 9.6k works
  6. 6Hanyang University21.3% 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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