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South Korea vs Sweden

On research quality in 2022-now, South Korea ranks #13 in the world and Sweden #15, of 189 countries. South Korea stands higher in 16 of the 26 fields both publish in, Sweden in 10.

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.

Sweden

World rank, 2022-now
#15
#12 all time
Works, 2022-now
121k
fractional
Top-10% rate
24.7%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
41%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Public Administration, Research and Theory, Equine.

Who leads in each field?

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

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

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?

50k100kSouth Korea93k in 2025Sweden31k in 20251990200020102020

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

Which publishes more research, South Korea or Sweden?

South Korea publishes 3.0× as much research as Sweden in 2022-now (358k against 121k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, South Korea or Sweden?

24.7% of Sweden's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 18.2% for South Korea.

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%.

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

Sweden

  1. 1Uppsala University24.8% top 10% · 11k works
  2. 2Lund University24.7% top 10% · 12k works
  3. 3Karolinska Institutet26.3% top 10% · 8.9k works
  4. 4University of Gothenburg27.3% top 10% · 8k works
  5. 5Stockholm University28.8% top 10% · 6.6k works
  6. 6Linköping University25.1% top 10% · 5.7k 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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