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Poland vs Saudi Arabia

On research quality in 2022-now, Saudi Arabia ranks #14 in the world and Poland #17, of 189 countries. Poland stands higher in 6 of the 26 fields both publish in, Saudi Arabia in 20.

Poland

World rank, 2022-now
#17
#28 all time
Works, 2022-now
250k
fractional
Top-10% rate
14.2%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
48%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Linguistics and Language, General Social Sciences, History.

Saudi Arabia

World rank, 2022-now
#14
#29 all time
Works, 2022-now
156k
fractional
Top-10% rate
23.4%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
58%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: General Dentistry, Orthodontics, Modeling and Simulation.

Who leads in each field?

Poland stands higher in 6 of 26 fields, Saudi Arabia in 20. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Poland 620 Saudi Arabia
  1. #14Agricultural and Biological Sciences#11
  2. #11Arts and Humanities#39
  3. #19Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#16
  4. #30Business, Management and Accounting#9
  5. #26Chemical Engineering#8
  6. #21Chemistry#5
  7. #32Computer Science#5
  8. #37Decision Sciences#8
  9. #6Dentistry#9
  10. #41Earth and Planetary Sciences#14
  11. #17Economics, Econometrics and Finance#16
  12. #19Energy#4
  13. #23Engineering#8
  14. #25Environmental Science#13
  15. #24Health Professions#11
  16. #16Immunology and Microbiology#27
  17. #17Materials Science#5
  18. #31Mathematics#4
  19. #18Medicine#24
  20. #24Neuroscience#15
  21. #12Nursing#11
  22. #20Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#5
  23. #23Physics and Astronomy#21
  24. #30Psychology#19
  25. #22Social Sciences#29
  26. #17Veterinary-

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?

50k100kPoland64k in 2025Saudi Arabia45k in 20251990200020102020

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

Which publishes more research, Poland or Saudi Arabia?

Poland publishes 1.6× as much research as Saudi Arabia in 2022-now (250k against 156k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Poland or Saudi Arabia?

23.4% of Saudi Arabia's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 14.2% for Poland.

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%.

Poland

  1. 1Jagiellonian University14.0% top 10% · 14k works
  2. 2University of Warsaw14.6% top 10% · 11k works
  3. 3University of Łódź14.0% top 10% · 5.9k works
  4. 4University of Rzeszów15.0% top 10% · 3.2k works
  5. 5Warsaw University of Life Sciences18.6% top 10% · 3.4k works
  6. 6Polish Academy of Sciences16.9% top 10% · 5.9k works

Saudi Arabia

  1. 1King Saud University25.0% top 10% · 19k works
  2. 2King Khalid University27.1% top 10% · 7.5k works
  3. 3Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University29.3% top 10% · 5.3k works
  4. 4King Abdullah University of Science and Technology28.3% top 10% · 5.7k works
  5. 5King Faisal University28.5% top 10% · 4.8k works
  6. 6King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals26.2% top 10% · 7.2k 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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