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On research quality in 2022-now, Mexico ranks #42 in the world and Türkiye #43, of 189 countries. Mexico stands higher in 8 of the 26 fields both publish in, Türkiye in 18.

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Mexico

World rank, 2022-now
#42
#39 all time
Works, 2022-now
177k
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.9%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
52%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: General Social Sciences, Life-span and Life-course Studies, Development.

Türkiye

World rank, 2022-now
#43
#45 all time
Works, 2022-now
460k
fractional
Top-10% rate
7.0%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
60%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Museology, Religious studies, Life-span and Life-course Studies.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Türkiye leads on 5 of 9 measures: output, top-10% rate, citations per work, open access and growth. Mexico leads on 2 of 9 measures: research quality and international co-authorship. The two are level on citation excellence for its fields and institutions in the world top 100.

Mexico 22 level5 Türkiye
  1. #42Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#43
  2. 0.61×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.62×
  3. 177kOutputfractional works, 2022-now460k
  4. 5.9%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited7.0%
  5. 9.1Citations per workall time, per fractional work10.9
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 52%Open accessof its works free to read, all time60%
  8. 19%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time11%
  9. +11%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+32%

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, citation excellence and the top-10% rate are explained in the methodology.

Who leads in each field?

Mexico stands higher in 8 of 26 fields, Türkiye in 18. Türkiye leads most in Energy (#23 against #49); Mexico leads most in Medicine (#42 against #61). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Mexico 818 Türkiye
  1. #36Agricultural and Biological Sciences#44
  2. #38Arts and Humanities#32
  3. #43Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#53
  4. #48Business, Management and Accounting#42
  5. #39Chemical Engineering#28
  6. #43Chemistry#35
  7. #43Computer Science#34
  8. #55Decision Sciences#35
  9. #41Dentistry#37
  10. #43Earth and Planetary Sciences#41
  11. #49Economics, Econometrics and Finance#33
  12. #49Energy#23
  13. #50Engineering#28
  14. #37Environmental Science#40
  15. #41Health Professions#40
  16. #48Immunology and Microbiology#55
  17. #48Materials Science#39
  18. #47Mathematics#32
  19. #42Medicine#61
  20. #36Neuroscience#40
  21. #48Nursing#42
  22. #32Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#35
  23. #46Physics and Astronomy#36
  24. #45Psychology#33
  25. #35Social Sciences#34
  26. #23Veterinary#24

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 Mexico rankTürkiye rank Mexico top 10%Türkiye top 10% Mexico worksTürkiye works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #36 #44 6.6% 6.4% 17k 24k
Arts and Humanities #38 #32 7.8% 10.1% 6.8k 39k
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #43 #53 5.7% 4.5% 8.6k 18k
Business, Management and Accounting #48 #42 6.3% 6.3% 5.2k 15k
Chemical Engineering #39 #28 3.1% 8.9% 438 1k
Chemistry #43 #35 5.2% 8.2% 2.2k 6k
Computer Science #43 #34 6.2% 9.6% 10k 20k
Decision Sciences #55 #35 6.1% 9.3% 939 4.9k
Dentistry #41 #37 4.5% 7.9% 815 5.4k
Earth and Planetary Sciences #43 #41 4.7% 8.4% 2.7k 3.6k
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #49 #33 6.1% 5.9% 5.2k 12k
Energy #49 #23 4.4% 7.9% 1.7k 3.7k
Engineering #50 #28 4.6% 8.1% 15k 49k
Environmental Science #37 #40 5.8% 6.7% 12k 16k
Health Professions #41 #40 6.0% 7.5% 5.6k 13k
Immunology and Microbiology #48 #55 5.8% 3.2% 1.7k 3.3k
Materials Science #48 #39 3.7% 6.4% 5k 12k
Mathematics #47 #32 6.7% 10.5% 1.8k 6.2k
Medicine #42 #61 4.9% 4.6% 29k 98k
Neuroscience #36 #40 5.9% 4.4% 2.2k 5.6k
Nursing #48 #42 5.9% 5.4% 1.2k 3.4k
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics #32 #35 6.2% 6.8% 604 1.3k
Physics and Astronomy #46 #36 4.5% 8.1% 3.2k 5k
Psychology #45 #33 5.4% 6.5% 5.8k 25k
Social Sciences #35 #34 7.4% 8.6% 32k 70k
Veterinary #23 #24 6.2% 4.9% 338 716

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.

Mexico

▲ 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. Education10k▲ 3.0×158 topics
  2. Sustainability10k▲ 2.1×137 topics
  3. Climate Change9,399▲ 1.70×130 topics
  4. Globalization8,952▲ 2.2×184 topics
  5. Epidemiology8,618◆ 1.06×140 topics
  6. Public Health6,974▲ 2.4×77 topics
  7. Innovation6,048▲ 2.9×90 topics
  8. Environmental Impact5,303▲ 1.52×72 topics
  9. Mental Health4,976▲ 1.71×48 topics
  10. Nutrition4,708▲ 5.2×19 topics
  11. Urban Development4,611▲ 6.4×21 topics
  12. COVID-194,573▲ 1.73×34 topics
  13. Latin America4,530▲ 12×23 topics
  14. Knowledge Management4,360▲ 3.9×42 topics
  15. Digital Marketing4,170▲ 5.3×6 topics
  16. Biodiversity4,105▲ 2.6×38 topics
  17. Human Rights4,091▲ 1.96×88 topics
  18. E-Learning3,984▲ 2.0×26 topics
  19. Health Promotion3,790▲ 5.9×18 topics
  20. Pedagogy3,573▲ 3.5×30 topics
  21. Small and Medium Enterprises3,547▲ 9.8×10 topics
  22. Community Participation3,536▲ 4.9×16 topics
  23. Teacher Training3,484▲ 2.8×30 topics
  24. Social Responsibility3,335▲ 7.1×14 topics
  25. Rural Development3,303▲ 4.7×23 topics
  26. Public Policy3,248▲ 3.4×31 topics
  27. Cultural Heritage3,182▲ 2.9×40 topics
  28. Innovation Ecosystems3,120▲ 15×4 topics
  29. Social Movements3,068▲ 5.1×33 topics
  30. Distance Learning3,050▲ 4.3×14 topics
  31. Communication2,849▲ 4.4×25 topics
  32. Globalization Effects2,796▲ 20×3 topics
  33. Tourism Management2,782▲ 20×2 topics
  34. City Branding2,776▲ 22×1 topic
  35. Psychopharmacology Education2,776▲ 22×1 topic
  36. Competitiveness2,753▲ 17×8 topics
  37. Sustainable Agriculture2,672▲ 4.2×18 topics
  38. University Students2,195▲ 19×2 topics
  39. ICT2,041▲ 7.5×5 topics
  40. Digital Competence2,021▲ 11×4 topics

Türkiye

▲ 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. Epidemiology23k◆ 1.09×140 topics
  2. Cultural Heritage21k▲ 7.7×39 topics
  3. Mental Health17k▲ 2.3×48 topics
  4. Sustainability14k◆ 1.10×137 topics
  5. Education14k▲ 1.54×156 topics
  6. Inflammation13k▲ 1.16×83 topics
  7. Quality of Life11k▲ 1.40×61 topics
  8. Qualitative Research9,452▲ 2.1×42 topics
  9. Teacher Training9,274▲ 2.9×30 topics
  10. Sufism8,921▲ 37×2 topics
  11. Meta-Analysis8,302▲ 2.7×21 topics
  12. Public Policy7,730▲ 3.1×33 topics
  13. Ottoman Empire7,615▲ 20×3 topics
  14. Professional Development7,558▲ 7.0×15 topics
  15. Ethnography7,432▲ 8.3×16 topics
  16. Student Perceptions7,427▲ 7.9×7 topics
  17. Distance Education7,212▲ 7.1×5 topics
  18. Learning6,969▲ 4.5×16 topics
  19. Teaching6,767▲ 10.0×11 topics
  20. Covid-19 Pandemic6,348▲ 8.9×4 topics
  21. Teacher Perspectives6,300▲ 31×2 topics
  22. Metaphors6,294▲ 37×1 topic
  23. Rituals6,252▲ 15×5 topics
  24. Storytelling6,241▲ 25×5 topics
  25. Mythology6,234▲ 24×3 topics
  26. Folklore6,228▲ 23×3 topics
  27. Traditional Beliefs6,131▲ 37×1 topic
  28. Turkish Culture6,131▲ 37×1 topic
  29. Therapy5,826▲ 5.7×8 topics
  30. Psychological Functioning5,756▲ 13×2 topics
  31. Content Analysis5,494▲ 8.3×8 topics
  32. Social Systems5,215▲ 17×5 topics
  33. Family Constellations5,128▲ 34×1 topic
  34. Genetic Processes5,128▲ 34×1 topic
  35. Divan Poetry4,923▲ 37×1 topic
  36. Turkish Literature4,923▲ 37×1 topic
  37. Educational Research4,874▲ 6.9×7 topics
  38. Quarantine4,866▲ 6.3×2 topics
  39. Theology4,165▲ 8.7×6 topics
  40. Bibliometric Analysis4,141▲ 14×4 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?

Türkiye has out-published Mexico every year since 2003, when it overtook it.

still counting50k100k150kTürkiye119k in 2025Mexico49k 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 counting1.0%2.0%3.0%Türkiye2.0% in 2025Mexico0.82% 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%Türkiye8.3% in 2025Mexico6.1% 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.

Mexico 23 level0 Türkiye
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 0In the top 5000
  4. 1In the top 1,0000
  5. #50Elite capacityrank among 204 countries#51

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, Mexico or Türkiye?

Türkiye publishes 2.6× as much research as Mexico in 2022-now (460k against 177k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Mexico or Türkiye?

7.0% of Türkiye's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.9% for Mexico.

Is Mexico or Türkiye growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +32% against 2018-21 for Türkiye, and +11% for Mexico.

Which has more open access research, Mexico or Türkiye?

60% of Türkiye's research is free to read, against 52% of Mexico's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Mexico or Türkiye?

Mexico holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Türkiye 0; in the top 1,000 it is 1 against 0.

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%.

Mexico

  1. 1Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México6.0% top 10% · 21k works
  2. 2Universidad del Noreste6.8% top 10% · 1.9k works
  3. 3Tecnológico de Monterrey11.7% top 10% · 5.5k works
  4. 4Universidad Internacional9.1% top 10% · 1.2k works
  5. 5Ibero American University7.6% top 10% · 1.5k works
  6. 6Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Xalapa6.2% top 10% · 1.3k works

Türkiye

  1. 1Koç University10.9% top 10% · 3.1k works
  2. 2Istanbul Aydın University5.6% top 10% · 2.3k works
  3. 3Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m Bakanliği7.2% top 10% · 4.2k works
  4. 4Istanbul Technical University8.2% top 10% · 7.4k works
  5. 5Iğdır Üniversitesi10.4% top 10% · 1.4k works
  6. 6Bartin University9.5% top 10% · 2.1k 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.

Mexico

  1. 1 I. Maldonado Cervantes #1,124 worldwide 25k citations · 196 works
  2. 2 Mostafa Hajiaghaei–Keshteli #1,732 worldwide 11k citations · 222 works
  3. 3 Matthew Paul Reynolds #3,407 worldwide 42k citations · 465 works
  4. 4 Ismael Campos‐Nonato #4,620 worldwide 168k citations · 131 works
  5. 5 Daniel Díaz #7,158 worldwide 127k citations · 198 works

Türkiye

  1. 1 Muhammet Deveci #140 worldwide 18k citations · 537 works
  2. 2 Ilhan Tekin Ozturk #628 worldwide 50k citations · 458 works
  3. 3 Bright Akwasi Gyamfi #2,231 worldwide 5.8k citations · 157 works
  4. 4 Buhari Doğan #3,357 worldwide 7.4k citations · 120 works
  5. 5 Uğur Korkut Pata #3,381 worldwide 16k citations · 275 works