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Top Countries in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Research

United States ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 57 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 18.9% 21k 113k#1
2China 82.9 25.8% 13k 85k#3
3United Kingdom 72.8 23.1% 5.3k 34k#2
4Germany 65.7 23.7% 4.7k 29k#4
5Australia 60.2 26.8% 2.7k 20k#7
6Netherlands 55.7 29.1% 1.9k 15k#6
7Canada 51.9 19.5% 3k 17k#5
8Italy 48.6 23.3% 2.6k 15k#8
9India 45.7 12.4% 4.8k 15k#14
10Spain 43.0 18.1% 2.5k 11k#11
11France 40.7 15.2% 2.7k 11k#9
12South Korea 38.5 20.3% 1.8k 10k#19
13Switzerland 36.6 24.8% 974 7.4k#10
14Hong Kong 34.7 29.2% 768 5.2k#20
15Japan 33.0 11.6% 3.1k 9.6k#13
16Saudi Arabia 31.4 23.9% 630 3.8k#31
17Norway 29.9 26.0% 726 4.6k#18
18Sweden 28.5 23.9% 840 4.9k#12
19Türkiye 27.2 12.9% 2k 5.8k#26
20Finland 25.9 26.9% 650 4.1k#16
21Brazil 24.7 7.6% 3.1k 5.2k#23
22Poland 23.5 15.0% 1.3k 4.7k#27
23Taiwan 22.4 20.0% 914 5.3k#28
24Singapore 21.4 27.9% 429 3.7k#25
25Iran 20.4 14.2% 1.3k 5k#33
26Belgium 19.4 23.3% 703 4.3k#15
27Greece 18.5 22.1% 462 2.6k#30
28Portugal 17.6 19.1% 744 3k#29
29Malaysia 16.7 14.9% 821 2.8k#32
30Austria 15.9 23.9% 578 3.1k#24
31Denmark 15.1 20.8% 592 3.4k#21
32Israel 14.3 22.7% 749 4.1k#17
33Indonesia 13.5 6.5% 1.8k 2.1k#40
34?? 12.8 14.6% 692 2.7k#34
35Russia 12.1 8.1% 1.6k 2.7k#36
36New Zealand 11.4 21.1% 352 1.7k#22
37Hungary 10.7 15.2% 485 1.6k#35
38Pakistan 10.0 11.1% 625 1.8k#42
39Czechia 9.4 16.5% 382 1.3k#39
40Egypt 8.8 14.9% 352 1.5k#46
41South Africa 8.1 18.9% 394 1.4k#37
42Ireland 7.6 22.4% 345 1.8k#38
43Bangladesh 7.0 18.6% 307 1.2k#45
44Mexico 6.4 9.9% 653 1.4k#41
45Romania 5.8 13.3% 437 1.3k#43
46Thailand 5.3 13.0% 413 1.1k#50
47Chile 4.8 14.5% 365 1k#48
48Vietnam 4.3 15.2% 274 811#57
49Iraq 3.7 7.2% 383 590#61
50Philippines 3.2 8.6% 319 571#56
51Peru 2.8 12.5% 220 619#62
52Argentina 2.3 9.2% 370 669#47
53Colombia 1.8 9.4% 324 684#53
54Nigeria 133.7 7.5% 401 637#59
55Ukraine 88.3 4.7% 550 492#60
56Croatia 43.8 10.6% 216 455#58
57Serbia 0.0 8.5% 200 372#63

countries ranked worldwide in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (57). 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: 11 places5 – 10: 8 places10 – 15: 7 places15 – 20: 6 places20 – 25: 5 places25 – 30: 4 places30 – 35: 3 places35 – 40: 2 places40 – 45: 2 places45 – 50: 2 places50 – 55: 1 places55 – 60: 1 places60 – 65: 1 places65 – 70: 1 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 21k works
  2. 2 China 13k works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 5.3k works
  4. 4 India 4.8k works
  5. 5 Germany 4.7k works
  6. 6 Brazil 3.1k works
  7. 7 Japan 3.1k works
  8. 8 Canada 3k works
  9. 9 Australia 2.7k works
  10. 10 France 2.7k works
  11. 11 Italy 2.6k works
  12. 12 Spain 2.5k works