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Top Countries in Health Sciences Research

United States ranks first in 2022-now, followed by China and United Kingdom, out of 158 ranked countries.

Quality score: the square root of excellence (the share of works in the world top 10% against what the place's own topics predict, on English-language articles and reviews) times the square root of the journal factor (its papers in the Nature Index's selective journals against what its topics predict), times output to the power 0.3 times breadth (how much of the selected area it works in) to the power 0.25. Floor: 100 fractional works in this field.

Ranked by research quality, 2022-now

#CountryScoreTop-10% rateWorksCitationsAll time
1United States 100.0 11.1% 1M 5.8M#1
2China 86.3 14.4% 638k 4.9M#7
3United Kingdom 78.3 12.7% 211k 1.3M#2
4Germany 72.6 11.3% 160k 902k#3
5France 68.2 10.6% 118k 611k#4
6Netherlands 64.6 15.9% 59k 471k#5
7Canada 61.6 12.5% 112k 725k#6
8Australia 58.9 14.3% 101k 725k#9
9Switzerland 56.6 13.7% 41k 278k#8
10Sweden 54.5 14.8% 32k 246k#11
11Denmark 52.6 13.8% 31k 215k#12
12Spain 50.9 10.5% 115k 596k#10
13Italy 49.3 15.6% 143k 1M#13
14South Korea 47.9 10.4% 98k 553k#16
15Singapore 46.5 14.5% 16k 127k#14
16Belgium 45.2 13.0% 27k 177k#15
17Austria 44.0 12.0% 20k 119k#17
18Norway 42.9 13.8% 17k 122k#18
19Japan 41.8 6.6% 182k 729k#21
20Finland 40.8 13.2% 14k 98k#20
21Israel 39.9 10.1% 22k 125k#19
22South Africa 38.9 10.3% 20k 119k#22
23Taiwan 38.1 10.8% 40k 238k#23
24New Zealand 37.2 11.3% 12k 74k#24
25Brazil 36.4 5.4% 165k 419k#25
26Ireland 35.6 11.5% 19k 102k#26
27Portugal 34.9 9.0% 33k 146k#27
28Czechia 34.2 8.9% 14k 65k#30
29Chile 33.5 8.2% 14k 50k#28
30India 32.8 5.0% 308k 881k#29
31Poland 32.2 10.7% 47k 264k#34
32Greece 31.5 12.6% 25k 148k#32
33Uganda 30.9 10.6% 4.6k 24k#31
34Hungary 30.3 9.6% 11k 54k#39
35Thailand 29.8 9.0% 24k 115k#36
36Ethiopia 29.2 14.2% 15k 95k#42
37Qatar 28.7 11.3% 6.1k 37k#45
38Argentina 28.1 5.6% 15k 43k#37
39Luxembourg 27.6 11.8% 935 6.2k#41
40Iceland 27.1 10.7% 1.2k 5.9k#33
41Malawi 26.6 12.1% 868 4.8k#35
42Kenya 26.2 7.1% 5.5k 20k#38
43Estonia 25.7 10.2% 1.4k 6.7k#46
44Mexico 25.3 5.1% 37k 99k#43
45Saudi Arabia 24.8 10.2% 42k 229k#47
46Peru 24.4 5.5% 10k 21k#40
47Gambia 23.9 13.3% 318 2k#44
48Tanzania 23.5 8.6% 4k 16k#52
49United Arab Emirates 23.1 10.7% 9.2k 49k#57
50Slovakia 22.7 8.7% 4.5k 22k#54
51Rwanda 22.3 10.5% 1.2k 4.9k#58
52Ghana 22.0 10.7% 5.9k 31k#59
53Slovenia 21.6 9.4% 5.3k 26k#50
54Vietnam 21.2 5.7% 11k 33k#48
55Puerto Rico 20.8 7.6% 2.5k 8.4k#55
56Croatia 20.5 7.2% 8.7k 32k#77
57Romania 20.1 13.5% 19k 108k#80
58Zimbabwe 19.8 9.8% 1.1k 5k#61
59Colombia 19.5 5.4% 21k 48k#51
60Bangladesh 19.1 7.5% 17k 68k#63
61Cyprus 18.8 12.6% 3k 17k#64
62Malaysia 18.5 7.7% 25k 103k#66
63Zambia 18.2 7.0% 1.6k 6k#49
64Türkiye 17.9 5.1% 120k 323k#67
65Panama 17.5 4.4% 1.2k 1.9k#68
66Uruguay 17.2 4.3% 2.8k 5.9k#73
67Nicaragua 16.9 5.8% 414 688#53
68Mozambique 16.7 7.5% 706 2.5k#62
69Iran 16.4 8.5% 73k 356k#69
70Laos 16.1 7.2% 266 1.1k#83
71Ecuador 15.8 4.6% 14k 17k#79
72Montenegro 15.5 7.1% 414 1.6k#81
73Democratic Republic of the Congo 15.3 5.3% 1.6k 3.8k#72
74Russia 15.0 3.2% 82k 153k#56
75Latvia 14.7 8.2% 1.7k 6.7k-
76Philippines 14.5 5.3% 8.3k 19k#71
77Cambodia 14.2 5.4% 1.8k 5.4k#65
78Bolivia 13.9 4.2% 1.3k 1.5k#88
79Egypt 13.7 5.8% 58k 185k#70
80Paraguay 13.4 4.0% 1.7k 2k-
81Nigeria 13.2 4.3% 28k 71k#97
82Costa Rica 13.0 4.4% 2.1k 3.5k#74
83Botswana 12.7 9.0% 455 2.5k#78
84Saint Kitts and Nevis 12.5 9.4% 322 1.6k#93
85Jordan 12.2 11.3% 7.3k 41k#96
86Lithuania 12.0 7.8% 3.6k 15k#86
87Mali 11.8 3.4% 954 1.5k#60
88Serbia 11.6 7.0% 8.2k 32k-
89Lebanon 11.3 9.7% 4.9k 23k#84
90Sierra Leone 11.1 9.1% 279 1.2k#76
91Namibia 10.9 7.1% 373 1.5k-
92Dominican Republic 10.7 6.9% 609 1.4k#92
93Angola 10.5 3.7% 453 601-
94Honduras 10.3 4.9% 483 780-
95Burkina Faso 10.0 5.1% 1.3k 3.6k#75
96Palestine 9.8 11.0% 2.1k 8.8k-
97Guatemala 9.6 3.8% 1.2k 1.4k-
98French Guiana 9.4 5.6% 214 506-
99Réunion 9.2 7.6% 229 818#89
100Fiji 9.0 5.7% 356 920-

countries ranked worldwide in Health Sciences (158). rank on the quality score within the stated pool. The score track runs 0 to 100; the rate track carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (about 6% in Dentistry, 21% in Economics).

How spread out this pool is

Every row above on one axis, one tick each. Right is a higher score. A field where the top few are far clear of everyone and one that runs down evenly look identical as a table.

9 to 14: 21 places14 to 18: 16 places18 to 23: 13 places23 to 27: 11 places27 to 32: 8 places32 to 36: 6 places36 to 41: 6 places41 to 45: 4 places45 to 50: 3 places50 to 55: 2 places55 to 59: 3 places59 to 64: 1 places64 to 68: 1 places68 to 73: 2 places73 to 77: 0 places77 to 82: 1 places82 to 86: 1 places86 to 91: 0 places91 to 95: 0 places95 to 100: 1 places9100

One bar per band of score, counting the rows on this page.

Ranked by volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.2M works
  2. 2 China 744k works
  3. 3 India 357k works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 241k works
  5. 5 Japan 208k works
  6. 6 Indonesia 191k works
  7. 7 Brazil 185k works
  8. 8 Germany 185k works
  9. 9 Italy 163k works
  10. 10 Türkiye 140k works
  11. 11 France 133k works
  12. 12 Spain 132k works