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Top Countries in Complementary and Manual Therapy Research

China ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 13 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 21.1% 1k 6.6k#3
2Italy 73.0 26.2% 348 3k#2
3United States 57.2 14.7% 840 3.8k#1
4Brazil 46.0 7.7% 619 1.8k#5
5India 37.3 5.5% 836 1.7k#12
6Türkiye 30.1 10.9% 439 1.3k#14
7Spain 24.1 16.5% 224 1.2k#11
8South Korea 18.9 13.5% 240 1.1k#15
9United Kingdom 14.3 11.7% 216 897#4
10Japan 10.2 8.7% 387 1.1k#6
11Germany 6.5 13.1% 216 957#7
12Egypt 3.1 10.3% 204 699#21
13Russia 0.0 4.3% 286 503#20

countries ranked worldwide in Complementary and Manual Therapy (13). 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: 2 places5 – 10: 1 places10 – 15: 2 places15 – 20: 1 places20 – 25: 1 places25 – 30: 0 places30 – 35: 1 places35 – 40: 1 places40 – 45: 0 places45 – 50: 1 places50 – 55: 0 places55 – 60: 1 places60 – 65: 0 places65 – 70: 0 places70 – 75: 1 places75 – 80: 0 places80 – 85: 0 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 1k works
  2. 2 United States 840 works
  3. 3 India 836 works
  4. 4 Brazil 619 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 439 works
  6. 6 Japan 387 works
  7. 7 Italy 348 works
  8. 8 Russia 286 works
  9. 9 South Korea 240 works
  10. 10 Spain 224 works
  11. 11 United Kingdom 216 works
  12. 12 Germany 216 works