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Top Countries in Medicine Research

United States ranks first in 2022-now, followed by China and United Kingdom, out of 152 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 11.2% 885k 5.2M#1
2China 86.2 14.0% 583k 4.5M#6
3United Kingdom 78.1 12.8% 174k 1.2M#2
4Germany 72.4 11.3% 137k 809k#3
5France 68.0 11.0% 96k 566k#4
6Netherlands 64.3 16.1% 51k 421k#5
7Canada 61.3 12.5% 91k 619k#7
8Switzerland 58.6 13.7% 35k 246k#8
9Australia 56.3 14.0% 81k 598k#9
10Sweden 54.2 14.9% 27k 212k#11
11Denmark 52.3 14.0% 27k 192k#12
12Spain 50.5 10.1% 100k 523k#10
13Italy 48.9 15.4% 129k 934k#13
14South Korea 47.5 10.2% 87k 490k#15
15Singapore 46.1 14.1% 14k 113k#14
16Belgium 44.8 13.1% 23k 157k#16
17Austria 43.6 12.2% 17k 108k#17
18Japan 42.5 6.6% 167k 676k#20
19Norway 41.4 14.0% 14k 101k#18
20Israel 40.4 9.9% 19k 111k#19
21Finland 39.4 13.5% 11k 81k#21
22Taiwan 38.5 10.5% 36k 215k#22
23South Africa 37.6 10.2% 15k 93k#23
24New Zealand 36.7 11.1% 9.4k 59k#24
25Brazil 35.9 4.8% 113k 319k#25
26Ireland 35.1 11.3% 15k 84k#26
27Czechia 34.4 8.9% 12k 57k#29
28Portugal 33.7 8.5% 27k 121k#27
29Poland 33.0 10.5% 40k 227k#33
30India 32.3 4.8% 254k 728k#28
31Chile 31.6 7.9% 10k 40k#30
32Greece 31.0 12.5% 22k 131k#31
33Hungary 30.4 9.3% 9.3k 46k#38
34Thailand 29.8 8.7% 20k 97k#35
35Uganda 29.2 10.5% 3.7k 20k#34
36Qatar 28.7 10.8% 5.3k 32k#41
37Argentina 28.1 5.5% 13k 36k#36
38Luxembourg 27.6 12.0% 736 5.3k#39
39Ethiopia 27.1 13.2% 11k 73k#44
40Iceland 26.6 11.3% 971 5k#32
41Estonia 26.1 10.4% 1.1k 5.3k#45
42Mexico 25.6 4.9% 29k 82k#40
43Saudi Arabia 25.1 9.4% 33k 177k#46
44Kenya 24.7 7.1% 3.9k 16k#43
45Malawi 24.2 11.8% 641 3.7k#37
46Peru 23.8 4.9% 6.6k 15k#42
47United Arab Emirates 23.4 10.0% 7.4k 40k#55
48Slovakia 22.9 8.6% 3.7k 18k#52
49Tanzania 22.5 8.1% 3.1k 13k#56
50Slovenia 22.1 9.5% 4.4k 23k#49
51Gambia 21.7 13.4% 260 1.7k#48
52Puerto Rico 21.4 7.2% 2.1k 7.3k#53
53Vietnam 21.0 5.4% 9.7k 29k#47
54Croatia 20.6 7.2% 7.3k 27k#73
55Romania 20.2 13.6% 16k 91k#74
56Rwanda 19.9 10.4% 890 3.8k#61
57Colombia 19.5 5.0% 17k 39k#50
58Ghana 19.2 10.1% 4.3k 23k#63
59Bangladesh 18.8 6.7% 14k 54k#60
60Cyprus 18.5 12.1% 2.3k 14k#58
61Türkiye 18.2 4.6% 98k 261k#62
62Zimbabwe 17.8 9.9% 785 3.5k#66
63Malaysia 17.5 7.1% 19k 81k#65
64Panama 17.2 4.3% 895 1.7k#69
65Uruguay 16.9 4.1% 2.2k 4.8k#72
66Zambia 16.6 7.2% 1.2k 4.9k#51
67Iran 16.3 8.2% 60k 296k#68
68Russia 16.0 3.2% 72k 137k#54
69Nicaragua 15.7 5.4% 259 511#57
70Montenegro 15.4 7.3% 332 1.4k#77
71Latvia 15.2 7.8% 1.4k 5.5k-
72Ecuador 14.9 3.8% 8.5k 11k#78
73Cambodia 14.6 4.9% 1.5k 4.4k#64
74Philippines 14.3 4.8% 5.9k 14k#71
75Mozambique 14.1 7.8% 494 2k#70
76Democratic Republic of the Congo 13.8 4.4% 1.2k 3.2k#76
77Egypt 13.5 5.4% 49k 152k#67
78Bolivia 13.3 4.0% 823 1k#91
79Saint Kitts and Nevis 13.0 9.6% 272 1.5k#88
80Costa Rica 12.8 3.9% 1.5k 2.7k#75
81Paraguay 12.5 3.4% 1.2k 1.5k-
82Jordan 12.3 10.2% 5.8k 33k#97
83Lithuania 12.0 7.3% 2.9k 12k#84
84Nigeria 11.8 4.1% 21k 55k#100
85Lebanon 11.6 9.4% 4.1k 20k#80
86Botswana 11.3 9.0% 335 2.1k#82
87Serbia 11.1 6.8% 6.9k 27k-
88Mali 10.9 2.6% 792 1.3k#59
89Palestine 10.7 9.1% 1.6k 6.3k-
90Dominican Republic 10.4 6.4% 466 1.1k#92
91Honduras 10.2 3.7% 362 599-
92Guatemala 10.0 3.5% 977 1.1k-
93Angola 9.8 3.6% 300 458-
94Bulgaria 9.6 4.8% 5.9k 15k#96
95Namibia 9.4 6.8% 240 994-
96Burkina Faso 9.1 4.2% 1k 3k#79
97Myanmar 8.9 6.0% 778 2.2k-
98Madagascar 8.7 4.0% 440 863-
99Sierra Leone 8.5 8.7% 208 903#83
100Pakistan 8.3 4.2% 41k 100k#86

countries ranked worldwide in Medicine (152). 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.

8 to 13: 21 places13 to 18: 16 places18 to 22: 13 places22 to 27: 11 places27 to 31: 8 places31 to 36: 6 places36 to 40: 6 places40 to 45: 4 places45 to 50: 3 places50 to 54: 2 places54 to 59: 3 places59 to 63: 1 places63 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 places8100

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

Ranked by volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1M works
  2. 2 China 680k works
  3. 3 India 295k works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 199k works
  5. 5 Japan 191k works
  6. 6 Germany 158k works
  7. 7 Italy 148k works
  8. 8 Brazil 127k works
  9. 9 Spain 114k works
  10. 10 Türkiye 114k works
  11. 11 France 109k works
  12. 12 Indonesia 104k works

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