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Top Countries in Archeology (Arts and Humanities) Research

France ranks first in 2022-now, followed by United States and Spain, out of 50 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
1France 100.0 5.7% 7.6k 4.1k#2
2United States 82.3 10.6% 6k 8.3k#1
3Spain 71.9 12.1% 5.5k 5.6k#4
4United Kingdom 64.6 13.1% 3.4k 5.7k#3
5Germany 58.9 11.5% 2.2k 3.1k#5
6China 54.2 18.4% 3k 13k#7
7Israel 50.3 15.1% 1.3k 1.2k#6
8Italy 46.8 11.4% 3.7k 7.1k#9
9Switzerland 43.8 12.0% 565 812#10
10Netherlands 41.1 14.7% 602 1.6k#12
11Canada 38.7 12.6% 904 1.3k#11
12Australia 36.5 12.9% 950 2k#8
13Austria 34.4 14.4% 437 717#14
14Poland 32.5 12.3% 2.1k 1.9k#15
15Denmark 30.8 12.8% 402 712#16
16Belgium 29.1 12.1% 553 855#13
17Sweden 27.6 15.9% 309 793#17
18Portugal 26.1 11.3% 832 1.4k#18
19Norway 24.7 15.0% 265 503#19
20Japan 23.4 10.5% 550 1.3k#22
21South Korea 22.2 14.3% 330 1k#26
22Finland 21.0 13.4% 206 433#27
23Czechia 19.8 10.4% 424 543#20
24Hungary 18.8 8.1% 662 515#29
25India 17.7 6.8% 1.6k 2.3k#21
26Argentina 16.7 7.0% 625 519#23
27Greece 15.8 12.6% 646 1.1k#25
28Slovenia 14.8 10.8% 240 367#35
29South Africa 13.9 11.2% 276 582#24
30Brazil 13.1 5.1% 1.1k 1k#30
31Türkiye 12.2 9.7% 2.9k 2.9k#38
32Chile 11.4 6.8% 228 240#28
33Croatia 10.6 5.2% 503 411#37
34Russia 9.9 6.6% 1.9k 1.3k#34
35Saudi Arabia 9.1 18.4% 283 904#36
36Malaysia 8.4 9.8% 761 1.1k#41
37Mexico 7.7 6.7% 484 377#39
38Ukraine 7.0 8.1% 556 346#45
39Peru 6.4 5.1% 206 127#40
40Thailand 5.7 8.6% 227 473#46
41Romania 5.1 7.8% 531 725#50
42Sri Lanka 4.5 9.4% 263 173#52
43Iran 3.9 9.2% 647 893#48
44Serbia 3.3 8.6% 228 314#51
45Egypt 2.7 6.8% 1.3k 1.3k#47
46Indonesia 2.1 6.0% 1.6k 1.2k#53
47Algeria 1.6 9.5% 296 234#54
48Nigeria 104.4 7.9% 241 276#58
49Pakistan 51.6 5.4% 240 217#59
50Iraq 0.0 8.0% 562 431#60

countries ranked worldwide in Archeology (50). 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: 9 places5 to 10: 8 places10 to 15: 6 places15 to 20: 5 places20 to 25: 4 places25 to 30: 3 places30 to 35: 3 places35 to 40: 2 places40 to 45: 2 places45 to 50: 1 places50 to 55: 2 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 France 8k works
  2. 2 United States 6.7k works
  3. 3 Spain 5.9k works
  4. 4 Italy 4.1k works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 3.7k works
  6. 6 China 3.5k works
  7. 7 Türkiye 3.1k works
  8. 8 Germany 2.4k works
  9. 9 Poland 2.2k works
  10. 10 Russia 2.1k works
  11. 11 India 1.9k works
  12. 12 Indonesia 1.9k works