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Top Countries in Engineering Research

China ranks first in 2022-now, followed by United States and United Kingdom, out of 131 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
1China 100.0 12.9% 1.1M 10.4M#1
2United States 85.8 9.3% 301k 2M#2
3United Kingdom 77.5 12.5% 77k 669k#4
4Germany 71.6 7.4% 107k 601k#3
5Australia 67.0 16.2% 37k 429k#5
6Singapore 63.2 19.3% 14k 196k#8
7South Korea 60.1 10.6% 78k 683k#10
8Canada 57.3 11.0% 49k 399k#9
9Switzerland 54.9 12.2% 15k 126k#7
10France 52.8 7.1% 65k 360k#6
11Netherlands 50.8 11.6% 20k 158k#13
12Italy 49.0 10.2% 67k 466k#11
13Spain 47.4 9.5% 39k 284k#12
14Sweden 45.9 11.6% 16k 137k#14
15India 44.5 7.0% 261k 1.4M#19
16Japan 43.1 4.6% 94k 365k#15
17Denmark 41.9 11.9% 11k 93k#16
18Belgium 40.7 9.8% 14k 99k#21
19Finland 39.6 11.6% 9.1k 75k#22
20Austria 38.6 7.8% 13k 73k#20
21Norway 37.6 10.1% 11k 81k#25
22Iran 36.6 11.2% 49k 429k#17
23Israel 35.7 8.3% 6.7k 44k#18
24Saudi Arabia 34.8 16.2% 26k 292k#26
25Poland 34.0 8.3% 32k 191k#24
26Taiwan 33.2 8.1% 28k 197k#27
27Portugal 32.4 10.5% 16k 123k#23
28Türkiye 31.6 8.1% 49k 287k#29
29New Zealand 30.9 11.9% 4.4k 36k#33
30Ireland 30.2 12.8% 5.6k 48k#30
31Czechia 29.6 6.5% 14k 65k#32
32United Arab Emirates 28.9 13.0% 9.5k 85k#38
33Brazil 28.3 4.7% 46k 187k#28
34Greece 27.7 11.0% 12k 91k#31
35Luxembourg 27.1 13.3% 1.3k 12k#39
36South Africa 26.5 8.6% 11k 76k#40
37Hungary 25.9 7.1% 7.8k 37k#42
38Chile 25.4 9.2% 5k 32k#37
39Egypt 24.9 11.9% 24k 199k#41
40Bangladesh 24.3 10.2% 11k 80k#50
41Qatar 23.8 15.6% 2.7k 32k#43
42Malaysia 23.3 7.6% 29k 175k#36
43Russia 22.9 3.5% 97k 219k#34
44Thailand 22.4 8.0% 13k 78k#44
45Slovenia 21.9 8.1% 3.8k 23k#35
46Cyprus 21.5 12.1% 2.2k 17k#48
47Estonia 21.0 9.5% 1.6k 10k#55
48Vietnam 20.6 6.6% 16k 72k#47
49Pakistan 20.2 12.6% 18k 177k#45
50Mexico 19.8 4.6% 15k 62k#46
51Ukraine 19.4 6.1% 26k 41k#59
52Slovakia 19.0 6.4% 6.1k 25k#51
53Romania 18.6 5.8% 13k 56k#58
54Iceland 18.2 11.3% 443 2.9k#52
55Argentina 17.8 3.8% 4.1k 17k#49
56Croatia 17.4 6.2% 4.3k 20k#54
57Puerto Rico 17.1 7.2% 560 2.9k#62
58Montenegro 16.7 7.4% 465 2k#56
59Colombia 16.4 6.0% 6.6k 28k#53
60Ethiopia 16.0 11.6% 3.4k 30k#66
61Ecuador 15.7 5.6% 3.6k 12k#61
62Lithuania 15.3 7.2% 2.7k 15k#57
63Uganda 15.0 11.9% 529 2.9k#78
64Jordan 14.7 13.4% 4.1k 32k#72
65Peru 14.4 3.8% 3k 7.1k#63
66Lebanon 14.1 11.4% 1.6k 13k#64
67Morocco 13.8 8.5% 9.9k 59k#67
68Latvia 13.4 5.4% 1.9k 8.2k#74
69Serbia 13.2 5.6% 5.4k 23k#60
70Oman 12.9 9.9% 1.8k 11k#73
71Brunei 12.6 12.1% 480 4.5k#76
72Ghana 12.3 8.0% 1.7k 9k#79
73Philippines 12.0 3.3% 4.3k 10k#65
74Kuwait 11.7 9.7% 2k 13k#83
75Botswana 11.4 10.7% 360 2.6k#96
76Panama 11.2 4.6% 234 644#82
77Kazakhstan 10.9 6.6% 7.1k 22k#71
78Uzbekistan 10.6 7.9% 6.6k 17k#93
79Kenya 10.4 5.8% 1.4k 6.2k#81
80Palestine 10.1 12.1% 603 5.8k#97
81Rwanda 9.9 8.8% 331 1.5k#88
82Sri Lanka 9.6 6.0% 2.3k 11k#92
83Bulgaria 9.4 3.4% 6.2k 13k#68
84Tanzania 9.1 6.5% 964 4.1k-
85North Macedonia 8.9 4.9% 864 2.8k-
86Yemen 8.6 9.2% 889 5.8k#99
87Indonesia 8.4 3.5% 75k 101k#77
88Malta 8.2 8.8% 420 1.9k#80
89Sudan 7.9 9.2% 686 4.6k#95
90Belarus 7.7 2.7% 2.8k 5.1k#89
91Nepal 7.5 4.5% 3.1k 9k#87
92Algeria 7.2 5.7% 11k 48k#69
93Tunisia 7.0 5.8% 5.7k 26k#75
94Albania 6.8 4.0% 412 990-
95Mongolia 6.6 3.3% 603 1.2k-
96Nigeria 6.4 4.9% 14k 53k#90
97Zimbabwe 6.2 4.3% 677 2k-
98Mozambique 6.0 5.8% 292 479-
99Afghanistan 5.7 9.0% 416 1.2k-
100Democratic Republic of the Congo 5.5 6.7% 218 757-

countries ranked worldwide in Engineering (131). 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.

6 to 10: 21 places10 to 15: 16 places15 to 20: 13 places20 to 24: 11 places24 to 29: 8 places29 to 34: 6 places34 to 39: 6 places39 to 43: 4 places43 to 48: 3 places48 to 53: 2 places53 to 57: 3 places57 to 62: 1 places62 to 67: 1 places67 to 72: 2 places72 to 76: 0 places76 to 81: 1 places81 to 86: 1 places86 to 91: 0 places91 to 95: 0 places95 to 100: 1 places6100

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

Ranked by volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.3M works
  2. 2 United States 339k works
  3. 3 India 294k works
  4. 4 Germany 119k works
  5. 5 Russia 105k works
  6. 6 Japan 104k works
  7. 7 South Korea 87k works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 86k works
  9. 9 Indonesia 81k works
  10. 10 Italy 75k works
  11. 11 France 71k works
  12. 12 Türkiye 55k works

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