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Top Countries in Dentistry Research

United States ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 64 ranked countries.

Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 100 fractional works in this field.

Ranked by research quality, 2022–2025

#CountryScoreTop-10% rateWorksCitationsAll time
1United States 100.0 15.7% 9.1k 51k#1
2China 83.3 23.0% 9.3k 72k#3
3Saudi Arabia 73.6 16.6% 3.4k 20k#8
4United Kingdom 66.7 17.2% 2.8k 16k#2
5India 61.3 6.1% 15k 38k#5
6Italy 56.9 29.1% 2.6k 25k#7
7Türkiye 53.2 12.2% 5.4k 18k#11
8Germany 50.0 23.0% 2.3k 18k#4
9Iran 47.2 11.9% 3k 14k#17
10Australia 44.6 25.3% 1.1k 9.6k#9
11Brazil 42.3 8.9% 8.7k 29k#6
12Spain 40.3 24.4% 1.7k 13k#14
13Poland 38.3 26.2% 965 8.1k#22
14Canada 36.5 21.0% 924 6.3k#13
15Romania 34.9 22.6% 1k 6.6k#27
16Pakistan 33.3 5.9% 1.6k 3.7k#23
17Egypt 31.9 11.3% 3.2k 12k#24
18South Korea 30.5 16.0% 2.3k 13k#18
19Thailand 29.2 18.9% 913 5.7k#29
20Hong Kong 28.0 37.4% 350 4.2k#19
21Japan 26.8 11.4% 2.9k 13k#12
22Switzerland 25.7 29.3% 833 8k#10
23Malaysia 24.6 11.2% 949 4.1k#26
24France 23.6 17.1% 1k 6.2k#21
25United Arab Emirates 22.6 21.3% 439 2.7k#32
26?? 21.7 15.7% 964 5.9k#31
27Taiwan 20.8 18.7% 782 5.1k#40
28Netherlands 19.9 24.9% 662 5.7k#15
29Portugal 19.0 21.3% 669 4.6k#34
30Belgium 18.2 22.7% 419 3.1k#20
31Indonesia 17.4 3.0% 2.7k 3.5k#38
32Hungary 16.7 24.3% 260 2k#44
33Sweden 15.9 25.9% 500 4.3k#16
34Russia 15.2 3.4% 1.8k 3.2k#39
35Jordan 14.5 20.3% 214 1.3k#33
36Greece 13.8 20.7% 444 3k#37
37Israel 13.2 17.7% 328 2.2k#36
38Iraq 12.5 4.6% 1.6k 3.8k#48
39South Africa 11.9 11.9% 242 1.1k#41
40Norway 11.3 20.5% 273 1.9k#30
41Finland 10.7 19.0% 373 2.6k#28
42Mexico 10.1 6.2% 815 2.1k#49
43Ireland 9.6 20.4% 212 1.7k#35
44Peru 9.0 5.0% 553 1.1k#52
45Bulgaria 8.5 7.2% 410 975#54
46New Zealand 7.9 20.3% 205 1.4k#42
47Denmark 7.4 20.0% 283 1.8k#25
48Bangladesh 6.9 9.3% 254 849#53
49Chile 6.4 11.3% 506 2k#47
50Austria 5.9 22.3% 256 1.7k#43
51Singapore 5.5 20.6% 224 1.8k#46
52Ecuador 5.0 3.5% 788 940#60
53Ukraine 4.5 4.0% 696 884#61
54Serbia 4.1 12.2% 247 1.3k#57
55Croatia 3.6 18.5% 294 1.8k#50
56Colombia 3.2 10.2% 427 1.6k#51
57Vietnam 2.8 11.0% 253 739#59
58Nigeria 2.4 4.9% 409 818#55
59Syria 2.0 16.3% 307 1.7k#64
60Nepal 1.6 3.7% 386 668#58
61Morocco 115.4 6.8% 301 696#66
62Tunisia 76.3 4.9% 201 359#69
63Argentina 37.9 3.7% 269 492#65
64Libya 0.0 1.7% 208 224

countries ranked worldwide in Dentistry (64). rank on the composite score within the stated pool. The score track runs 0 to 100; the rate track carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field.

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.

0 – 5: 13 places5 – 10: 9 places10 – 15: 8 places15 – 20: 7 places20 – 25: 5 places25 – 30: 4 places30 – 35: 4 places35 – 40: 2 places40 – 45: 3 places45 – 50: 1 places50 – 55: 2 places55 – 60: 1 places60 – 65: 1 places65 – 70: 1 places70 – 75: 1 places75 – 80: 0 places80 – 85: 1 places85 – 90: 0 places90 – 95: 0 places95 – 100: 1 places0100

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

Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 India 15k works
  2. 2 China 9.3k works
  3. 3 United States 9.1k works
  4. 4 Brazil 8.7k works
  5. 5 Türkiye 5.4k works
  6. 6 Saudi Arabia 3.4k works
  7. 7 Egypt 3.2k works
  8. 8 Iran 3k works
  9. 9 Japan 2.9k works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 2.8k works
  11. 11 Indonesia 2.7k works
  12. 12 Italy 2.6k works