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Top Countries in Biochemistry (Medicine) Research

China ranks first in 2022-now, followed by United States and United Kingdom, out of 28 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
1China 100.0 15.1% 5.2k 68k#2
2United States 79.2 11.8% 2.1k 17k#1
3United Kingdom 67.0 13.0% 406 3.8k#5
4Spain 58.4 12.0% 726 9.1k#3
5Germany 51.7 9.4% 408 3.4k#4
6Australia 46.2 14.5% 305 3.8k#8
7Canada 41.6 12.5% 328 3.2k#7
8Italy 37.6 13.9% 821 12k#9
9France 34.1 9.9% 394 3.4k#6
10India 30.9 6.7% 2.3k 17k#13
11Poland 28.0 14.7% 628 9.2k#21
12South Korea 25.4 6.6% 693 5.8k#12
13Portugal 23.0 16.8% 308 4.6k#14
14Japan 20.8 5.0% 465 2.9k#16
15Brazil 18.7 5.5% 1.1k 7.8k#19
16Saudi Arabia 16.8 13.2% 324 5k#25
17Greece 15.0 12.7% 228 2.5k#29
18Thailand 13.3 6.4% 348 3.1k#33
19Romania 11.6 16.3% 296 3.9k#39
20Türkiye 10.1 5.3% 1.2k 7.6k#35
21Mexico 8.6 6.4% 390 3.2k#34
22Iran 7.2 9.6% 601 5.6k#37
23Malaysia 5.9 8.2% 324 3.1k#40
24Egypt 4.6 8.9% 418 3.7k#45
25Pakistan 3.4 8.8% 355 3.4k#43
26Russia 2.2 2.5% 487 2k#46
27Nigeria 109.1 2.4% 340 1.4k#48
28Indonesia 0.0 1.7% 796 2.3k#49

countries ranked worldwide in Biochemistry (28). 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: 5 places5 to 10: 3 places10 to 15: 4 places15 to 20: 2 places20 to 25: 2 places25 to 30: 2 places30 to 35: 2 places35 to 40: 1 places40 to 45: 1 places45 to 50: 1 places50 to 55: 1 places55 to 60: 1 places60 to 65: 0 places65 to 70: 1 places70 to 75: 0 places75 to 80: 1 places80 to 85: 0 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 China 5.7k works
  2. 2 India 2.7k works
  3. 3 United States 2.5k works
  4. 4 Türkiye 1.4k works
  5. 5 Brazil 1.3k works
  6. 6 Italy 916 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 884 works
  8. 8 Spain 808 works
  9. 9 South Korea 747 works
  10. 10 Poland 678 works
  11. 11 Iran 649 works
  12. 12 Japan 535 works