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Poland vs Slovenia

On research quality in 2022-now, Poland ranks #23 in the world and Slovenia #36, of 189 countries. Poland stands higher in 26 of the 26 fields both publish in, Slovenia in 0.

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Poland

World rank, 2022-now
#23
#28 all time
Works, 2022-now
250k
fractional
Top-10% rate
9.2%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
49%
of its works free to read

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

Slovenia

World rank, 2022-now
#36
#35 all time
Works, 2022-now
28k
fractional
Top-10% rate
9.0%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
51%
of its works free to read

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

Who leads, measure by measure?

Slovenia leads on 4 of 9 measures: citations per work, open access, international co-authorship and growth. Poland leads on 2 of 9 measures: research quality and output. The two are level on citation excellence for its fields, top-10% rate and institutions in the world top 100.

Poland 23 level4 Slovenia
  1. #23Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#36
  2. 0.93×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.92×
  3. 250kOutputfractional works, 2022-now28k
  4. 9.2%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited9.0%
  5. 9.2Citations per workall time, per fractional work14.6
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 49%Open accessof its works free to read, all time51%
  8. 13%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time26%
  9. -11%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+6%

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?

Poland stands higher in 26 of 26 fields, Slovenia in 0. Poland leads most in Energy (#22 against #56). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Poland 260 Slovenia
  1. #21Agricultural and Biological Sciences#47
  2. #19Arts and Humanities#35
  3. #25Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#34
  4. #25Business, Management and Accounting#40
  5. #25Chemical Engineering-
  6. #17Chemistry#49
  7. #23Computer Science#40
  8. #30Decision Sciences#34
  9. #18Dentistry-
  10. #35Earth and Planetary Sciences#47
  11. #21Economics, Econometrics and Finance#46
  12. #22Energy#56
  13. #25Engineering#45
  14. #28Environmental Science#44
  15. #28Health Professions#48
  16. #30Immunology and Microbiology#42
  17. #17Materials Science#33
  18. #24Mathematics#38
  19. #29Medicine#50
  20. #29Neuroscience#38
  21. #21Nursing-
  22. #18Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics-
  23. #23Physics and Astronomy#31
  24. #30Psychology#42
  25. #24Social Sciences#38
  26. #16Veterinary-

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 Poland rankSlovenia rank Poland top 10%Slovenia top 10% Poland worksSlovenia works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #21 #47 11.8% 9.8% 12k 1.1k
Arts and Humanities #19 #35 9.8% 9.4% 17k 1.5k
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #25 #34 9.3% 9.7% 12k 1.4k
Business, Management and Accounting #25 #40 8.7% 10.0% 7.4k 1.1k
Chemical Engineering #25 - 7.2% - 905 -
Chemistry #17 #49 9.0% 7.9% 4.5k 421
Computer Science #23 #40 8.1% 9.4% 11k 2k
Decision Sciences #30 #34 8.1% 10.7% 1.7k 300
Dentistry #18 - 20.1% - 965 -
Earth and Planetary Sciences #35 #47 7.1% 7.4% 3.3k 419
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #21 #46 8.5% 9.4% 6.7k 957
Energy #22 #56 10.1% 6.4% 2.1k 255
Engineering #25 #45 8.3% 8.1% 32k 3.8k
Environmental Science #28 #44 9.0% 7.3% 12k 1.5k
Health Professions #28 #48 10.4% 8.3% 3.7k 650
Immunology and Microbiology #30 #42 9.9% 8.2% 2.1k 213
Materials Science #17 #33 7.2% 8.3% 8.7k 1k
Mathematics #24 #38 8.1% 10.0% 2.9k 404
Medicine #29 #50 10.5% 9.5% 40k 4.4k
Neuroscience #29 #38 8.9% 8.1% 3.4k 324
Nursing #21 - 12.0% - 1.3k -
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics #18 - 12.5% - 779 -
Physics and Astronomy #23 #31 7.3% 10.5% 5.6k 561
Psychology #30 #42 8.2% 7.6% 7k 1.1k
Social Sciences #24 #38 8.7% 9.7% 50k 4.4k
Veterinary #16 - 10.4% - 359 -

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.

Poland

▲ 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. Globalization11k▲ 2.1×185 topics
  2. Education10k▲ 2.2×159 topics
  3. Cultural Studies7,244▲ 7.1×45 topics
  4. European Union7,132▲ 12×29 topics
  5. Human Rights6,479▲ 2.3×90 topics
  6. Nationalism6,245▲ 5.0×34 topics
  7. Migration6,012▲ 6.4×35 topics
  8. Ethnography5,863▲ 12×16 topics
  9. Innovation5,612▲ 1.97×90 topics
  10. Literature5,338▲ 3.5×64 topics
  11. Eastern Europe5,308▲ 37×3 topics
  12. Soviet Union5,301▲ 35×3 topics
  13. Pedagogy4,873▲ 3.5×30 topics
  14. Cultural Identity4,864▲ 3.5×40 topics
  15. Cultural Discourse4,864▲ 49×3 topics
  16. Polish history4,844▲ 71×1 topic
  17. Polish minority4,844▲ 71×1 topic
  18. Ethics4,813▲ 3.4×62 topics
  19. Cultural Heritage4,748▲ 3.2×40 topics
  20. Sociolinguistics4,605▲ 9.1×9 topics
  21. Culture4,528▲ 3.1×40 topics
  22. Language4,404▲ 6.4×15 topics
  23. Urban Development4,401▲ 4.5×23 topics
  24. Multilingualism4,107▲ 9.2×6 topics
  25. Lexicography4,106▲ 17×5 topics
  26. Translation4,103▲ 9.0×7 topics
  27. Media Discourse3,674▲ 21×4 topics
  28. Social Sciences3,670▲ 9.2×24 topics
  29. Lifelong Learning3,640▲ 6.4×11 topics
  30. Ethnolinguistics3,637▲ 44×2 topics
  31. Public Administration3,554▲ 16×6 topics
  32. European Union Law3,482▲ 79×2 topics
  33. Youth Development3,383▲ 13×9 topics
  34. Digital Innovations3,236▲ 81×1 topic
  35. National Identity3,110▲ 9.7×11 topics
  36. Social Change3,067▲ 9.0×21 topics
  37. Data Privacy2,893▲ 9.6×4 topics
  38. Historiography2,859▲ 8.5×15 topics
  39. Memory Studies2,850▲ 16×6 topics
  40. Anthropology2,767▲ 11×11 topics

Slovenia

▲ 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. Sustainability1,037▲ 1.30×130 topics
  2. Epidemiology1,033▼ 0.79×140 topics
  3. Machine Learning877▼ 0.81×95 topics
  4. Climate Change861◆ 0.97×122 topics
  5. Globalization722◆ 1.12×170 topics
  6. Religion674▲ 4.5×40 topics
  7. Sustainable Development669▲ 1.31×102 topics
  8. Human Rights623▲ 1.86×85 topics
  9. Ethics610▲ 3.7×55 topics
  10. Environmental Impact591◆ 1.06×71 topics
  11. Identity578▲ 2.4×73 topics
  12. Resilience546▲ 3.4×19 topics
  13. Artificial Intelligence539▲ 1.16×65 topics
  14. Mental Health525◆ 1.12×48 topics
  15. Cultural Integration439▲ 6.3×3 topics
  16. Media438▲ 8.9×17 topics
  17. Economic Growth432▲ 1.62×35 topics
  18. Social Change430▲ 11×20 topics
  19. Spirituality420▲ 13×8 topics
  20. Cultural History414▲ 11×15 topics
  21. Communication Technology400▲ 98×1 topic
  22. Youth Subcultures400▲ 98×1 topic
  23. International Relations344▲ 4.3×31 topics
  24. Nation-Building250▲ 14×4 topics
  25. Transition240▲ 8.3×6 topics
  26. International Trade236▲ 5.2×12 topics
  27. Authoritarianism235▲ 8.2×5 topics
  28. Memory Politics215▲ 24×2 topics
  29. Dissent215▲ 34×1 topic
  30. Post-Communist215▲ 34×1 topic
  31. Foreign Policy212▲ 17×4 topics
  32. Lexicography212▲ 7.5×5 topics
  33. Sovereign Debt Crises208▲ 16×2 topics
  34. Negotiation201▲ 17×4 topics
  35. Commercial Diplomacy193▲ 50×1 topic
  36. Economic Diplomacy193▲ 50×1 topic
  37. Etymology191▲ 12×2 topics
  38. Historical Phonology191▲ 12×2 topics
  39. Language Evolution187▲ 14×2 topics
  40. Indo-European177▲ 26×1 topic

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?

Poland has out-published Slovenia every year since 1980.

still counting50k100kPoland64k in 2025Slovenia8,105 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%Poland1.1% in 2025Slovenia0.14% 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%Poland9.2% in 2025Slovenia9.1% 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.

Poland 32 level0 Slovenia
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 1In the top 5000
  4. 5In the top 1,0001
  5. #29Elite capacityrank among 204 countries#39

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, Poland or Slovenia?

Poland publishes 8.9× as much research as Slovenia in 2022-now (250k against 28k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Poland or Slovenia?

9.2% of Poland's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 9.0% for Slovenia.

Is Poland or Slovenia growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +6% against 2018-21 for Slovenia, and -11% for Poland.

Which has more open access research, Poland or Slovenia?

51% of Slovenia's research is free to read, against 49% of Poland's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Poland or Slovenia?

Poland holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Slovenia 0; in the top 1,000 it is 5 against 1.

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. 1Polish Academy of Sciences9.4% top 10% · 21k works
  2. 2Jagiellonian University8.7% top 10% · 14k works
  3. 3University of Warsaw8.8% top 10% · 11k works
  4. 4AGH University of Krakow9.1% top 10% · 8k works
  5. 5University of Wrocław7.6% top 10% · 4.2k works
  6. 6Wrocław University of Science and Technology8.6% top 10% · 3.4k works

Slovenia

  1. 1University of Ljubljana9.7% top 10% · 8.5k works
  2. 2Jožef Stefan Institute9.3% top 10% · 1.7k works
  3. 3University of Maribor9.6% top 10% · 4.2k works
  4. 4University of Primorska10.1% top 10% · 1.2k works
  5. 5National Institute of Chemistry9.7% top 10% · 478 works
  6. 6Faculty of Media6.6% top 10% · 647 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.

Poland

  1. 1 P. Jaranowski #637 worldwide 94k citations · 375 works
  2. 2 T. Kunigo #1,235 worldwide 24k citations · 283 works
  3. 3 N. Haddad #1,253 worldwide 21k citations · 240 works
  4. 4 O. Arslan #1,266 worldwide 42k citations · 484 works
  5. 5 M. Lisovyi #1,357 worldwide 65k citations · 863 works

Slovenia

  1. 1 Matjaž Perc #1,993 worldwide 51k citations · 733 works
  2. 2 Abdulrasheed Zakari #11,817 worldwide 6.6k citations · 91 works
  3. 3 Tomaž Prosen #20,492 worldwide 18k citations · 393 works
  4. 4 G. Kramberger #34,382 worldwide 6.1k citations · 87 works
  5. 5 Robert Dominko #39,565 worldwide 17k citations · 379 works

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