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Top Countries in Cultural Studies Research

United States ranks first in 2022-now, followed by United Kingdom and Germany, out of 47 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 10.9% 8.9k 10k#1
2United Kingdom 82.0 13.8% 2.6k 3.7k#2
3Germany 71.5 10.4% 2.4k 2.5k#4
4Spain 64.0 11.5% 3.8k 2.5k#3
5France 58.2 8.2% 4.9k 1.4k#5
6China 53.5 10.5% 3.5k 3.8k#10
7Australia 49.5 17.2% 951 1.4k#6
8Canada 46.0 12.2% 1.3k 1.4k#7
9Switzerland 42.9 11.0% 426 408#8
10Netherlands 40.2 17.6% 390 739#13
11South Korea 37.7 12.5% 1k 2.5k#9
12Sweden 35.5 17.9% 248 456#19
13Japan 33.4 7.6% 1.4k 829#15
14Chile 31.5 11.1% 1.3k 1.3k#11
15Austria 29.7 11.6% 390 274#14
16Argentina 28.0 8.9% 1.9k 733#16
17Denmark 26.4 12.1% 202 385#20
18Italy 24.9 9.9% 822 757#24
19Finland 23.5 19.3% 202 334#26
20Russia 22.2 9.9% 5.7k 2.4k#17
21Poland 20.9 9.0% 1.5k 534#22
22Belgium 19.7 9.0% 340 282#18
23Brazil 18.6 7.3% 2k 718#28
24Indonesia 17.5 9.1% 24k 16k#29
25Peru 16.4 9.4% 641 349#27
26Czechia 15.4 8.3% 272 184#33
27India 14.4 8.4% 1k 969#36
28Mexico 13.5 7.3% 2k 899#30
29Portugal 12.5 11.0% 316 296#31
30Taiwan 11.7 12.4% 208 206#32
31Hungary 10.8 9.7% 261 151#43
32Thailand 10.0 16.8% 265 345#44
33Türkiye 9.2 12.1% 2k 1.2k#41
34Colombia 8.4 11.3% 827 631#35
35Philippines 7.7 10.8% 311 259#40
36Ukraine 6.9 7.2% 995 385#50
37Ecuador 6.2 11.2% 471 290#39
38Malaysia 5.5 13.5% 720 728#51
39Croatia 4.8 4.5% 252 77#48
40Serbia 4.2 11.8% 260 136#53
41Armenia 3.5 4.2% 223 37-
42Kazakhstan 2.9 13.1% 231 117#52
43Romania 2.3 6.2% 270 93#54
44Azerbaijan 1.7 6.1% 201 53-
45Pakistan 112.9 10.3% 244 186#57
46Nigeria 55.9 11.6% 207 119#63
47Uzbekistan 0.0 4.6% 393 60#62

countries ranked worldwide in Cultural Studies (47). 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: 9 places5 to 10: 7 places10 to 15: 5 places15 to 20: 5 places20 to 25: 4 places25 to 30: 3 places30 to 35: 2 places35 to 40: 2 places40 to 45: 2 places45 to 50: 2 places50 to 55: 1 places55 to 60: 1 places60 to 65: 1 places65 to 70: 0 places70 to 75: 1 places75 to 80: 0 places80 to 85: 1 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 Indonesia 28k works
  2. 2 United States 11k works
  3. 3 Russia 6.3k works
  4. 4 France 5.4k works
  5. 5 Spain 4.3k works
  6. 6 China 3.8k works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 3.1k works
  8. 8 Germany 2.7k works
  9. 9 Türkiye 2.4k works
  10. 10 Brazil 2.4k works
  11. 11 Mexico 2.3k works
  12. 12 Argentina 2k works