Russia vs United States
On research quality in 2022-now, The United States ranks #2 in the world and Russia #59, of 189 countries. Russia stands higher in 0 of the 26 fields both publish in, the United States in 26.
Russia
- World rank, 2022-now
- #59
- #47 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 544k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 6.2%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 41%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Nuclear Energy and Engineering, Fuel Technology, General Materials Science.
United States
- World rank, 2022-now
- #2
- #1 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 3.1M
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 17.5%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 33%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Transplantation, Library and Information Sciences, Medical Terminology.
Who leads in each field?
Russia stands higher in 0 of 26 fields, United States in 26. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- #63Agricultural and Biological Sciences#2
- #25Arts and Humanities#1
- #50Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#2
- #62Business, Management and Accounting#4
- #41Chemical Engineering#2
- #51Chemistry#2
- #63Computer Science#2
- #49Decision Sciences#2
- #61Dentistry#4
- #58Earth and Planetary Sciences#2
- #38Economics, Econometrics and Finance#2
- #47Energy#8
- #50Engineering#2
- #73Environmental Science#2
- #87Health Professions#1
- #62Immunology and Microbiology#2
- #27Materials Science#2
- #13Mathematics#2
- #64Medicine#2
- #63Neuroscience#2
- #59Nursing#3
- #44Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#2
- #37Physics and Astronomy#2
- #67Psychology#2
- #33Social Sciences#2
- #28Veterinary#5
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, Russia or United States?
The United States publishes 5.6× as much research as Russia in 2022-now (3.1M against 544k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Russia or United States?
17.5% of the United States's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.2% for Russia.
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%.
Russia
- 1National Research University Higher School of Economics14.4% top 10% · 8.5k works
- 2Peoples' Friendship University of Russia10.6% top 10% · 6.6k works
- 3Lomonosov Moscow State University7.7% top 10% · 18k works
- 4ITMO University8.3% top 10% · 3.5k works
- 5Ural Federal University10.5% top 10% · 6k works
- 6Financial University11.1% top 10% · 4.6k works
United States
- 1Harvard University28.6% top 10% · 25k works
- 2Stanford University25.5% top 10% · 24k works
- 3Massachusetts Institute of Technology27.8% top 10% · 13k works
- 4Cornell University23.6% top 10% · 20k works
- 5Princeton University28.4% top 10% · 8.8k works
- 6University of Michigan21.5% top 10% · 28k 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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Which is stronger in research, Russia or the US?
On research quality in 2022-now, The United States ranks #2 in the world and Russia #59, of 189 countries. Russia stands higher in 0 of the 26 fields both publish in, the United States in 26.