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Top Countries in Biomaterials Research

China ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 51 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 26.6% 27k 445k#2
2India 82.4 17.3% 9.4k 94k#3
3United States 72.1 18.3% 6.5k 80k#1
4Iran 64.7 23.0% 3k 42k#11
5South Korea 59.1 20.8% 2.2k 33k#8
6Canada 54.4 22.1% 1.3k 20k#9
7United Kingdom 50.5 20.2% 1.6k 21k#5
8Germany 47.1 14.1% 2.1k 22k#4
9Italy 44.1 19.4% 1.9k 26k#12
10Australia 41.4 23.9% 942 16k#10
11France 39.0 13.2% 1.9k 18k#7
12Spain 36.8 20.2% 1.7k 23k#13
13Malaysia 34.8 15.2% 1.4k 16k#15
14Poland 32.9 15.9% 1.3k 16k#21
15Portugal 31.1 23.3% 704 11k#19
16Saudi Arabia 29.5 24.0% 888 13k#28
17Japan 27.9 8.3% 2.5k 17k#6
18?? 26.5 20.2% 856 12k#22
19Pakistan 25.1 19.9% 794 9.4k#26
20Egypt 23.8 20.4% 1.2k 15k#29
21Brazil 22.6 10.3% 2.4k 19k#18
22Türkiye 21.4 10.8% 2k 15k#25
23Indonesia 20.3 6.7% 2.2k 9.7k#36
24Singapore 19.2 27.8% 310 6.2k#16
25Romania 18.1 18.6% 532 7.2k#34
26Netherlands 17.1 23.1% 492 7.7k#14
27Thailand 16.2 15.6% 1.1k 12k#40
28Russia 15.3 5.7% 2k 10k#31
29Bangladesh 14.4 26.6% 427 5.6k#44
30Taiwan 13.5 16.5% 698 8.4k#27
31Mexico 12.7 9.0% 938 7.1k#37
32Hong Kong 11.9 32.0% 231 4.5k#33
33Ireland 11.1 25.7% 226 4.1k#32
34Sweden 10.3 18.8% 451 6.3k#20
35Greece 9.6 22.0% 341 4.9k#43
36Nigeria 8.9 12.0% 492 3.4k#47
37South Africa 8.2 19.6% 438 5.2k#41
38Switzerland 7.5 21.1% 331 4.3k#17
39Belgium 6.8 15.4% 410 4.3k#23
40Finland 6.2 18.1% 329 4.8k#30
41Iraq 5.6 10.5% 524 3.5k#50
42Czechia 4.9 11.3% 508 4.4k#39
43Morocco 4.3 22.4% 222 2.9k#49
44Vietnam 3.8 10.2% 503 4k#51
45Denmark 3.2 20.8% 216 2.9k#42
46Austria 2.6 14.3% 299 3.3k#35
47Israel 2.1 15.6% 231 3k#24
48Hungary 1.5 12.2% 265 2.2k#48
49Argentina 101.7 9.4% 343 2.7k#45
50Colombia 50.4 9.8% 327 2.4k#58
51Ukraine 0.0 5.0% 286 996#55

countries ranked worldwide in Biomaterials (51). 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: 10 places5 – 10: 7 places10 – 15: 6 places15 – 20: 5 places20 – 25: 4 places25 – 30: 4 places30 – 35: 3 places35 – 40: 2 places40 – 45: 2 places45 – 50: 1 places50 – 55: 2 places55 – 60: 1 places60 – 65: 1 places65 – 70: 0 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 27k works
  2. 2 India 9.4k works
  3. 3 United States 6.5k works
  4. 4 Iran 3k works
  5. 5 Japan 2.5k works
  6. 6 Brazil 2.4k works
  7. 7 South Korea 2.2k works
  8. 8 Indonesia 2.2k works
  9. 9 Germany 2.1k works
  10. 10 Türkiye 2k works
  11. 11 Russia 2k works
  12. 12 France 1.9k works