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Top Countries in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Research

United States ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 29 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 14.9% 7.3k 43k#1
2China 79.4 21.9% 4.2k 30k#5
3United Kingdom 67.4 18.1% 1.5k 11k#2
4Canada 58.8 21.2% 895 7.3k#4
5France 52.2 21.0% 847 6.6k#3
6Italy 46.8 22.8% 1k 8.2k#7
7Germany 42.2 17.4% 1.2k 7.3k#6
8Australia 38.2 20.7% 845 6.4k#8
9Spain 34.7 14.3% 914 5.4k#10
10Japan 31.6 12.0% 1.2k 5.2k#12
11Netherlands 28.8 24.8% 463 4k#9
12India 26.2 6.2% 1.5k 3.7k#17
13South Korea 23.8 15.4% 595 3.5k#19
14Switzerland 21.6 22.5% 299 2.3k#11
15Brazil 19.6 9.3% 831 3k#16
16Denmark 17.7 19.3% 274 2.3k#14
17Sweden 15.9 22.1% 246 1.8k#15
18Türkiye 14.2 7.4% 868 2.2k#23
19Taiwan 12.6 20.6% 319 2k#22
20Iran 11.0 10.6% 446 1.7k#26
21Israel 9.6 15.3% 219 1.4k#20
22?? 8.2 18.0% 204 1.3k#25
23Saudi Arabia 6.9 12.5% 291 1.3k#29
24Egypt 5.6 5.3% 495 963#35
25Poland 4.4 13.2% 215 1k#31
26Russia 3.2 3.7% 460 903#37
27Mexico 2.1 6.8% 206 574#39
28Pakistan 104.2 3.9% 290 437#41
29Indonesia 0.0 2.9% 312 364#42

countries ranked worldwide in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (29). 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: 5 places5 – 10: 4 places10 – 15: 3 places15 – 20: 3 places20 – 25: 2 places25 – 30: 2 places30 – 35: 2 places35 – 40: 1 places40 – 45: 1 places45 – 50: 1 places50 – 55: 1 places55 – 60: 1 places60 – 65: 0 places65 – 70: 1 places70 – 75: 0 places75 – 80: 1 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 United States 7.3k works
  2. 2 China 4.2k works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 1.5k works
  4. 4 India 1.5k works
  5. 5 Germany 1.2k works
  6. 6 Japan 1.2k works
  7. 7 Italy 1k works
  8. 8 Spain 914 works
  9. 9 Canada 895 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 868 works
  11. 11 France 847 works
  12. 12 Australia 845 works