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Top Countries in Automotive Engineering Research

China ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 58 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
1China 100.0 21.8% 34k 389k#2
2United States 82.9 16.7% 12k 111k#1
3India 72.9 12.5% 11k 67k#6
4United Kingdom 65.9 20.9% 3.3k 38k#3
5Australia 60.4 27.7% 1.4k 22k#7
6Germany 55.9 12.2% 5.7k 38k#4
7South Korea 52.1 19.0% 3.4k 34k#10
8Canada 48.8 19.9% 2.1k 23k#5
9Italy 45.9 16.3% 3.2k 27k#9
10Singapore 43.3 30.3% 689 12k#13
11Hong Kong 40.9 33.1% 749 12k#16
12Türkiye 38.8 13.8% 2.3k 16k#20
13France 36.8 12.7% 2.5k 17k#8
14Iran 35.0 22.1% 1.1k 13k#18
15Malaysia 33.3 14.0% 1.1k 9.3k#19
16Saudi Arabia 31.7 26.1% 723 9.7k#27
17Spain 30.2 16.9% 1.7k 14k#14
18?? 28.8 14.9% 1.2k 10k#25
19Japan 27.5 7.5% 2.8k 12k#11
20Netherlands 26.2 22.4% 833 8.5k#12
21Sweden 25.0 21.3% 814 8.5k#15
22Bangladesh 23.9 18.0% 419 3.8k#42
23Poland 22.8 10.0% 1.7k 9.9k#22
24Portugal 21.7 17.9% 708 6.1k#29
25Denmark 20.7 20.8% 465 5.7k#23
26United Arab Emirates 19.8 22.9% 383 4.6k#41
27Egypt 18.8 18.2% 660 6.5k#38
28Switzerland 17.9 21.0% 536 6k#17
29Pakistan 17.1 18.4% 440 4.5k#39
30Taiwan 16.2 13.3% 937 7.2k#24
31Brazil 15.4 8.1% 1.4k 6.4k#31
32Norway 14.6 19.3% 412 4.3k#28
33Greece 13.9 20.6% 608 5.9k#30
34Belgium 13.2 15.8% 508 5.1k#21
35South Africa 12.4 17.7% 431 3.8k#36
36Ireland 11.7 24.4% 265 3.2k#35
37Thailand 11.1 14.5% 553 4k#44
38Finland 10.4 19.1% 396 3.6k#33
39Russia 9.8 4.3% 1.7k 4.8k#32
40Austria 9.2 11.0% 677 4.3k#26
41Indonesia 8.5 3.6% 2k 3.9k#43
42Romania 7.9 8.7% 727 3.5k#45
43Morocco 7.4 16.7% 458 3k#48
44Iraq 6.8 10.8% 423 2.7k#51
45Czechia 6.3 8.8% 543 2.8k#40
46Hungary 5.7 9.0% 552 2.5k#46
47Vietnam 5.2 10.2% 590 2.3k#50
48Nigeria 4.7 7.1% 329 1.5k#55
49Ukraine 4.2 5.6% 526 1.1k#52
50Mexico 3.7 7.4% 483 2.1k#47
51Algeria 3.2 10.2% 269 1.4k#56
52Tunisia 2.7 9.9% 251 1.3k#57
53Croatia 2.2 9.5% 243 1.5k#60
54Serbia 1.8 9.8% 215 970#58
55Ecuador 130.8 7.9% 223 760#63
56Colombia 86.4 8.1% 242 1.2k#59
57Slovakia 42.8 5.9% 344 1.2k#53
58Bulgaria 0.0 4.7% 279 638#61

countries ranked worldwide in Automotive Engineering (58). 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: 11 places5 – 10: 9 places10 – 15: 7 places15 – 20: 6 places20 – 25: 4 places25 – 30: 4 places30 – 35: 3 places35 – 40: 3 places40 – 45: 2 places45 – 50: 2 places50 – 55: 1 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 China 34k works
  2. 2 United States 12k works
  3. 3 India 11k works
  4. 4 Germany 5.7k works
  5. 5 South Korea 3.4k works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 3.3k works
  7. 7 Italy 3.2k works
  8. 8 Japan 2.8k works
  9. 9 France 2.5k works
  10. 10 Türkiye 2.3k works
  11. 11 Canada 2.1k works
  12. 12 Indonesia 2k works