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Top Countries in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Research

United States ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 39 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 19.1% 16k 153k#1
2China 81.1 22.5% 12k 125k#4
3United Kingdom 70.0 22.2% 2.6k 27k#2
4Germany 62.2 19.1% 3.2k 29k#3
5Italy 56.1 19.8% 2.2k 19k#8
6South Korea 51.1 18.4% 1.8k 17k#14
7Canada 46.9 19.1% 1.7k 16k#6
8France 43.2 17.8% 1.9k 16k#5
9India 40.0 11.5% 2.9k 13k#18
10Switzerland 37.1 24.6% 690 8.5k#9
11Spain 34.5 17.2% 1.4k 11k#13
12Japan 32.2 10.2% 3.4k 19k#7
13Australia 30.0 20.4% 1.1k 11k#11
14Netherlands 28.0 23.5% 775 7.8k#12
15Sweden 26.1 21.5% 532 5.1k#10
16Denmark 24.3 22.2% 401 4.2k#16
17Poland 22.7 16.9% 648 4.6k#25
18?? 21.1 21.5% 453 4.4k#20
19Brazil 19.6 11.3% 1.2k 5.8k#22
20Iran 18.2 12.4% 974 6.1k#33
21Belgium 16.9 18.4% 372 3.1k#17
22Israel 15.6 18.0% 401 3.4k#15
23Taiwan 14.4 13.7% 621 4.7k#30
24Portugal 13.3 17.6% 398 3.5k#29
25Hong Kong 12.1 26.4% 202 2.7k#36
26Saudi Arabia 11.1 18.0% 309 2.4k#39
27Russia 10.0 4.9% 1.5k 5.2k#23
28Singapore 9.0 26.2% 213 2.7k#27
29Mexico 8.1 10.9% 506 2.7k#34
30Türkiye 7.2 6.1% 910 3k#38
31Austria 6.3 16.6% 330 2.7k#19
32Norway 5.4 22.7% 210 2.1k#21
33Czechia 4.6 14.8% 341 2.3k#28
34Egypt 3.7 13.3% 437 2.4k#43
35Greece 3.0 16.6% 234 1.6k#37
36Pakistan 2.2 8.9% 287 1.2k#45
37Hungary 143.7 15.4% 230 1.8k#26
38Argentina 70.9 9.5% 237 1.1k#35
39Indonesia 0.0 4.4% 253 558#56

countries ranked worldwide in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (39). 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: 7 places5 – 10: 5 places10 – 15: 5 places15 – 20: 4 places20 – 25: 3 places25 – 30: 3 places30 – 35: 2 places35 – 40: 1 places40 – 45: 2 places45 – 50: 1 places50 – 55: 1 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 United States 16k works
  2. 2 China 12k works
  3. 3 Japan 3.4k works
  4. 4 Germany 3.2k works
  5. 5 India 2.9k works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 2.6k works
  7. 7 Italy 2.2k works
  8. 8 France 1.9k works
  9. 9 South Korea 1.8k works
  10. 10 Canada 1.7k works
  11. 11 Russia 1.5k works
  12. 12 Spain 1.4k works