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Top Countries in Neuroscience Research

United States ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 74 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 19.2% 79k 670k#1
2China 83.9 22.8% 61k 584k#4
3United Kingdom 74.5 22.9% 16k 149k#2
4Germany 67.8 19.3% 17k 136k#3
5Italy 62.6 22.7% 11k 92k#8
6Canada 58.4 19.2% 10k 83k#5
7France 54.8 17.1% 9.5k 69k#6
8Australia 51.7 22.0% 7.1k 64k#10
9India 49.0 11.8% 19k 83k#16
10South Korea 46.5 18.4% 7.6k 65k#14
11Spain 44.3 18.0% 7.3k 51k#13
12Japan 42.3 10.0% 14k 70k#7
13Switzerland 40.4 23.3% 3.5k 36k#11
14Netherlands 38.7 23.6% 5.3k 50k#9
15Poland 37.1 16.2% 3.4k 23k#21
16Sweden 35.6 21.8% 2.5k 22k#12
17Brazil 34.2 9.9% 6.4k 27k#19
18Iran 32.8 13.4% 4.9k 30k#31
19?? 31.6 19.0% 2.4k 21k#23
20Denmark 30.4 22.2% 2.1k 19k#18
21Saudi Arabia 29.3 21.8% 2k 17k#39
22Türkiye 28.2 8.7% 5.6k 20k#34
23Belgium 27.2 19.6% 2.4k 18k#17
24Portugal 26.2 18.1% 1.9k 14k#30
25Egypt 25.2 12.6% 2.1k 12k#40
26Taiwan 24.3 15.5% 3k 21k#33
27Singapore 23.4 25.8% 1.2k 15k#27
28Greece 22.6 20.1% 1.4k 11k#35
29Russia 21.8 4.5% 7k 20k#26
30Norway 21.0 22.2% 1.4k 12k#22
31Hong Kong 20.2 25.0% 1.5k 15k#38
32Israel 19.5 18.6% 2.4k 18k#15
33Austria 18.8 18.9% 1.7k 12k#20
34Romania 18.1 18.2% 961 7.8k#43
35Mexico 17.4 11.3% 2.2k 11k#36
36Ireland 16.7 21.5% 1.1k 9.6k#25
37Finland 16.1 23.4% 1.2k 10k#24
38Czechia 15.5 14.4% 1.3k 7.7k#29
39New Zealand 14.9 17.3% 964 7.2k#32
40Pakistan 14.3 11.4% 1.6k 8.2k#45
41Hungary 13.7 16.1% 1.1k 7.5k#28
42Malaysia 13.2 13.9% 1.5k 8.7k#44
43Thailand 12.6 14.0% 941 5.6k#48
44Chile 12.1 16.8% 947 6.1k#42
45South Africa 11.6 17.1% 690 4.4k#41
46Bangladesh 11.0 15.3% 908 5.4k#50
47Argentina 10.5 11.0% 1k 4.7k#37
48Nigeria 10.1 10.4% 739 3.2k#55
49United Arab Emirates 9.6 21.1% 611 4.6k#54
50Slovakia 9.1 12.9% 416 2.4k#47
51Serbia 8.6 12.2% 485 2.3k#52
52Indonesia 8.2 3.9% 2.5k 4k#57
53Iraq 7.8 9.2% 1.1k 4k#63
54Colombia 7.3 10.3% 788 2.5k#58
55Macau 6.9 26.1% 276 2.9k#68
56Croatia 6.5 10.4% 473 2k#53
57Ukraine 6.1 3.9% 1.2k 1.9k#51
58Bulgaria 5.7 11.9% 435 1.9k#46
59Slovenia 5.3 17.6% 324 2.2k#56
60Qatar 4.9 23.4% 235 1.8k#62
61Jordan 4.5 16.6% 351 2.4k#69
62Cyprus 4.1 18.2% 226 1.3k#70
63Lebanon 3.7 13.9% 204 1.1k#66
64Lithuania 3.4 14.5% 255 1.5k#74
65Kazakhstan 3.0 12.5% 239 1k#73
66Vietnam 2.7 10.3% 458 1.5k#72
67Tunisia 2.3 12.0% 426 1.7k#65
68Morocco 2.0 10.9% 509 1.6k#60
69Ecuador 1.6 9.6% 385 813#79
70Peru 129.1 8.0% 291 714#76
71Philippines 96.2 7.4% 361 1.1k#67
72Nepal 63.7 5.8% 233 515#85
73Uzbekistan 31.6 4.8% 282 343#88
74Algeria 0.0 8.1% 249 735#87

countries ranked worldwide in Neuroscience (74). 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: 15 places5 – 10: 11 places10 – 15: 10 places15 – 20: 7 places20 – 25: 6 places25 – 30: 5 places30 – 35: 4 places35 – 40: 3 places40 – 45: 3 places45 – 50: 2 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 United States 79k works
  2. 2 China 61k works
  3. 3 India 19k works
  4. 4 Germany 17k works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 16k works
  6. 6 Japan 14k works
  7. 7 Italy 11k works
  8. 8 Canada 10k works
  9. 9 France 9.5k works
  10. 10 South Korea 7.6k works
  11. 11 Spain 7.3k works
  12. 12 Australia 7.1k works