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Subfield · Anthropology

Top Countries in Anthropology Research

United States ranks first in 2022-now, followed by United Kingdom and France, out of 43 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 10.8% 10k 11k#1
2United Kingdom 81.6 14.3% 4.7k 7.1k#2
3France 70.8 5.2% 7.6k 3.2k#3
4Germany 63.1 12.4% 2.1k 3k#5
5Spain 57.2 12.2% 1.8k 2.4k#7
6Australia 52.4 13.5% 1.3k 2.4k#4
7Netherlands 48.3 17.9% 757 1.2k#8
8China 44.7 15.5% 1.5k 3.8k#10
9Canada 41.6 11.6% 1.6k 1.7k#6
10Switzerland 38.8 10.1% 599 652#9
11Italy 36.2 11.3% 1.8k 1.5k#15
12Belgium 33.9 12.3% 580 659#11
13Poland 31.8 9.5% 3.2k 950#12
14Israel 29.8 14.4% 341 503#13
15Sweden 28.0 17.1% 280 400#20
16Denmark 26.3 15.0% 309 630#16
17Austria 24.7 13.2% 310 374#19
18South Africa 23.2 15.4% 1k 1.6k#14
19Argentina 21.7 8.0% 1.3k 1k#21
20Norway 20.4 14.8% 273 430#23
21Finland 19.1 18.1% 219 280#27
22Brazil 17.8 7.3% 3.2k 1.1k#17
23Portugal 16.6 10.9% 631 515#22
24Japan 15.5 8.5% 390 409#33
25India 14.4 6.8% 1.5k 1.1k#26
26Ireland 13.4 15.6% 223 228#28
27Chile 12.4 11.1% 341 312#24
28Czechia 11.4 8.6% 320 218#30
29Hungary 10.5 9.9% 343 193#37
30Philippines 9.6 9.8% 557 426#29
31Mexico 8.7 8.5% 701 360#34
32Russia 7.9 7.7% 1.5k 928#32
33Greece 7.0 9.1% 328 173#36
34Kenya 6.2 4.3% 340 193#38
35Türkiye 5.5 13.4% 1k 567#40
36Colombia 4.7 12.9% 325 190#39
37Ukraine 4.0 10.6% 324 167#45
38Sri Lanka 3.3 19.3% 268 78#47
39Romania 2.6 6.9% 215 95#48
40Nigeria 1.9 7.5% 504 273#49
41Morocco 126.6 8.9% 249 142#50
42Indonesia 62.6 8.5% 406 284#56
43Algeria 0.0 5.7% 221 71#51

countries ranked worldwide in Anthropology (43). 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.

0 to 5: 8 places5 to 10: 6 places10 to 15: 5 places15 to 20: 4 places20 to 25: 4 places25 to 30: 3 places30 to 35: 2 places35 to 40: 2 places40 to 45: 2 places45 to 50: 1 places50 to 55: 1 places55 to 60: 1 places60 to 65: 1 places65 to 70: 0 places70 to 75: 1 places75 to 80: 0 places80 to 85: 1 places85 to 90: 0 places90 to 95: 0 places95 to 100: 1 places0100

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

Ranked by volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 12k works
  2. 2 France 8k works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 5.2k works
  4. 4 Brazil 3.6k works
  5. 5 Poland 3.3k works
  6. 6 Germany 2.3k works
  7. 7 Spain 2k works
  8. 8 Italy 1.9k works
  9. 9 India 1.8k works
  10. 10 Canada 1.7k works
  11. 11 China 1.7k works
  12. 12 Russia 1.7k works