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Top Countries in Behavioral Neuroscience Research

United States ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 10 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 19.7% 2.4k 20k#1
2China 69.9 23.4% 1.2k 13k#6
3Germany 52.3 21.0% 407 3.4k#3
4Canada 39.8 21.0% 281 2.5k#4
5United Kingdom 30.1 22.6% 272 2.8k#2
6Italy 22.2 25.1% 224 2.2k#9
7Japan 15.5 10.4% 338 1.8k#11
8Brazil 9.7 11.5% 242 1.3k#13
9India 4.6 11.1% 252 1.1k#18
10Russia 0.0 3.8% 279 920#22

countries ranked worldwide in Behavioral Neuroscience (10). 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.

Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 2.4k works
  2. 2 China 1.2k works
  3. 3 Germany 407 works
  4. 4 Japan 338 works
  5. 5 Canada 281 works
  6. 6 Russia 279 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 272 works
  8. 8 India 252 works
  9. 9 Brazil 242 works
  10. 10 Italy 224 works
  11. 11 Spain 176 works
  12. 12 Australia 171 works