Subfield · Complementary and alternative medicine
Top Countries in Complementary and alternative medicine Research
China ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 36 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
| # | Country | Score | Top-10% rate | Works | Citations | All time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 100.0 | 19.1% | 19k | 95k | #2 |
| 2 | India | 80.7 | 9.5% | 10k | 28k | #4 |
| 3 | United States | 69.3 | 14.4% | 5k | 22k | #1 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 61.3 | 19.1% | 1.1k | 7.1k | #3 |
| 5 | Poland | 55.1 | 24.7% | 619 | 4.6k | #19 |
| 6 | South Korea | 50.0 | 17.8% | 1.5k | 7.6k | #9 |
| 7 | Iran | 45.7 | 18.7% | 1.2k | 6.8k | #10 |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia | 42.0 | 30.2% | 611 | 6.1k | #17 |
| 9 | Spain | 38.7 | 21.5% | 696 | 5.3k | #12 |
| 10 | Italy | 35.7 | 25.6% | 733 | 5.7k | #8 |
| 11 | Australia | 33.1 | 24.5% | 629 | 4.6k | #6 |
| 12 | Germany | 30.7 | 17.0% | 959 | 4.6k | #5 |
| 13 | Canada | 28.4 | 20.6% | 634 | 4.2k | #7 |
| 14 | Egypt | 26.4 | 22.8% | 826 | 5.3k | #23 |
| 15 | Brazil | 24.4 | 11.1% | 1.8k | 6.4k | #11 |
| 16 | Türkiye | 22.6 | 12.7% | 1.3k | 4.5k | #22 |
| 17 | Pakistan | 20.9 | 16.7% | 635 | 3.4k | #28 |
| 18 | Indonesia | 19.3 | 3.9% | 2.4k | 3.5k | #37 |
| 19 | Japan | 17.8 | 11.3% | 1.1k | 3.8k | #13 |
| 20 | Bangladesh | 16.4 | 22.4% | 294 | 2.1k | #32 |
| 21 | Malaysia | 15.0 | 16.9% | 539 | 2.8k | #24 |
| 22 | France | 13.7 | 16.3% | 505 | 2.7k | #14 |
| 23 | Thailand | 12.5 | 21.0% | 522 | 2.6k | #31 |
| 24 | Nigeria | 11.3 | 7.3% | 998 | 2.2k | #35 |
| 25 | Portugal | 10.2 | 21.9% | 325 | 2.3k | #29 |
| 26 | Taiwan | 9.1 | 21.0% | 513 | 2.8k | #15 |
| 27 | ?? | 8.0 | 13.1% | 453 | 2k | #33 |
| 28 | Romania | 7.0 | 24.6% | 224 | 1.6k | #45 |
| 29 | Netherlands | 6.0 | 22.9% | 224 | 1.5k | #16 |
| 30 | Switzerland | 5.1 | 14.9% | 268 | 1.1k | #21 |
| 31 | Mexico | 4.2 | 12.9% | 312 | 1.4k | #41 |
| 32 | Iraq | 3.3 | 7.5% | 407 | 1.1k | #49 |
| 33 | South Africa | 2.4 | 20.8% | 203 | 1.5k | #30 |
| 34 | Russia | 1.6 | 4.7% | 866 | 1.6k | #42 |
| 35 | Vietnam | 78.6 | 6.4% | 488 | 864 | #50 |
| 36 | Ukraine | 0.0 | 4.9% | 346 | 622 | #54 |
countries ranked worldwide in Complementary and alternative medicine (36). 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.
One bar per band of score, counting the rows on this page.
Ranked by volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 19k works
- 2 India 10k works
- 3 United States 5k works
- 4 Indonesia 2.4k works
- 5 Brazil 1.8k works
- 6 South Korea 1.5k works
- 7 Türkiye 1.3k works
- 8 Iran 1.2k works
- 9 Japan 1.1k works
- 10 United Kingdom 1.1k works
- 11 Nigeria 998 works
- 12 Germany 959 works