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Top Countries in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics Research

United States ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 45 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 17.1% 8.9k 61k#1
2China 81.8 25.4% 15k 147k#2
3India 71.1 11.4% 11k 54k#3
4United Kingdom 63.6 20.8% 1.7k 15k#4
5Indonesia 57.7 5.1% 2.8k 5.6k#14
6Italy 52.9 23.3% 1.2k 11k#8
7Canada 48.9 21.0% 926 7.5k#6
8Australia 45.4 23.8% 814 7.3k#7
9Germany 42.3 14.8% 1.6k 11k#5
10Iran 39.5 19.0% 1.6k 13k#16
11France 37.0 13.3% 1.3k 7.6k#9
12Egypt 34.7 21.2% 1.7k 14k#23
13Spain 32.6 19.2% 1k 8k#10
14Saudi Arabia 30.7 25.0% 1.2k 13k#20
15Poland 28.9 20.1% 779 7.4k#21
16South Korea 27.2 16.9% 1.7k 12k#18
17Brazil 25.6 12.1% 1.6k 8.9k#17
18Netherlands 24.1 21.7% 446 3.6k#13
19Türkiye 22.7 12.4% 1.3k 6.2k#29
20Iraq 21.3 7.0% 861 2.6k#32
21Nigeria 20.0 6.5% 1.3k 4k#30
22Pakistan 18.8 14.8% 1.1k 7.7k#19
23Portugal 17.6 24.6% 402 5k#24
24Switzerland 16.5 21.7% 395 3.1k#15
25Bangladesh 15.4 17.1% 334 2k#31
26Japan 14.4 8.0% 2.6k 10k#11
27Malaysia 13.4 17.8% 690 5.3k#26
28?? 12.5 18.7% 601 4.6k#27
29Denmark 11.5 18.4% 302 2.4k#25
30Sweden 10.7 20.2% 260 2.4k#12
31Romania 9.8 24.2% 276 3.1k#47
32Russia 9.0 4.1% 1.6k 4.9k#33
33Taiwan 8.1 16.1% 492 3.6k#28
34South Africa 7.4 19.4% 307 2.5k#41
35Thailand 6.6 19.6% 765 5.9k#38
36Mexico 5.9 10.7% 604 2.6k#49
37Greece 5.1 18.3% 203 1.7k#45
38Belgium 4.4 17.5% 264 1.9k#22
39Czechia 3.8 12.3% 297 1.6k#44
40Hungary 3.1 15.5% 253 2k#51
41Vietnam 2.4 8.2% 483 2.2k#54
42Jordan 1.8 18.0% 213 2.3k#55
43Argentina 119.4 11.2% 216 1.2k#52
44Austria 59.0 15.5% 205 1.7k#42
45Ukraine 0.0 9.6% 485 1.7k#58

countries ranked worldwide in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (45). 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: 8 places5 – 10: 7 places10 – 15: 5 places15 – 20: 4 places20 – 25: 4 places25 – 30: 3 places30 – 35: 3 places35 – 40: 2 places40 – 45: 1 places45 – 50: 2 places50 – 55: 1 places55 – 60: 1 places60 – 65: 1 places65 – 70: 0 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 China 15k works
  2. 2 India 11k works
  3. 3 United States 8.9k works
  4. 4 Indonesia 2.8k works
  5. 5 Japan 2.6k works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 1.7k works
  7. 7 South Korea 1.7k works
  8. 8 Egypt 1.7k works
  9. 9 Brazil 1.6k works
  10. 10 Russia 1.6k works
  11. 11 Iran 1.6k works
  12. 12 Germany 1.6k works