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Top Countries in Biophysics Research

United States ranks first in 2022-now, followed by China and Germany, out of 19 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
1United States 100.0 10.5% 5.2k 47k#1
2China 76.5 13.6% 5.1k 43k#3
3Germany 62.7 10.7% 1.4k 13k#2
4United Kingdom 52.9 11.2% 1k 9.3k#4
5Switzerland 45.3 15.0% 276 3k#6
6France 39.1 7.7% 908 5.6k#5
7Australia 33.9 11.0% 339 2.8k#7
8South Korea 29.4 11.5% 512 3.7k#11
9Canada 25.4 10.3% 472 3.9k#10
10Netherlands 21.8 11.0% 274 2.5k#8
11Spain 18.6 10.0% 396 2.7k#9
12Japan 15.6 4.5% 1k 4.3k#15
13Italy 12.9 8.7% 713 4.4k#14
14India 10.4 6.3% 1.4k 6.3k#21
15Taiwan 8.0 7.1% 227 1.1k#25
16Poland 5.8 7.4% 296 1.7k#24
17Russia 3.8 3.9% 805 2.6k#28
18Brazil 1.8 6.8% 254 1.3k#30
19Türkiye 0.0 7.2% 250 1.1k#32

countries ranked worldwide in Biophysics (19). 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: 3 places5 to 10: 2 places10 to 15: 2 places15 to 20: 2 places20 to 25: 1 places25 to 30: 2 places30 to 35: 1 places35 to 40: 1 places40 to 45: 0 places45 to 50: 1 places50 to 55: 1 places55 to 60: 0 places60 to 65: 1 places65 to 70: 0 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 United States 6.2k works
  2. 2 China 5.9k works
  3. 3 Germany 1.7k works
  4. 4 India 1.6k works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 1.2k works
  6. 6 Japan 1.1k works
  7. 7 France 1k works
  8. 8 Russia 891 works
  9. 9 Italy 822 works
  10. 10 South Korea 588 works
  11. 11 Canada 552 works
  12. 12 Spain 460 works