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Top Countries in Food Science Research

China ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 73 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 37.7% 24k 321k#2
2India 83.8 16.8% 12k 72k#4
3United States 74.4 18.1% 9.5k 69k#1
4Italy 67.7 27.5% 3.3k 33k#6
5United Kingdom 62.5 22.7% 2.4k 20k#3
6Australia 58.2 29.0% 1.5k 17k#10
7Iran 54.6 24.3% 2.8k 26k#13
8Indonesia 51.5 2.0% 26k 26k#22
9Brazil 48.8 12.5% 6.9k 34k#11
10Spain 46.3 21.9% 3.2k 26k#7
11Canada 44.1 24.7% 1.6k 16k#9
12Poland 42.1 20.9% 2.1k 19k#14
13Türkiye 40.2 12.8% 4.9k 23k#19
14France 38.5 15.4% 2.8k 17k#5
15Germany 36.9 18.5% 2.3k 16k#8
16Egypt 35.4 16.1% 2.6k 16k#28
17Portugal 34.0 27.2% 1.3k 13k#18
18Pakistan 32.6 18.1% 1.6k 10k#33
19South Korea 31.4 19.2% 2.5k 19k#20
20Malaysia 30.2 15.4% 1.7k 11k#25
21Saudi Arabia 29.0 26.2% 1.2k 12k#34
22Netherlands 28.0 29.3% 939 10k#12
23Mexico 26.9 8.2% 3.7k 13k#27
24Nigeria 25.9 6.6% 2.5k 6.5k#39
25Greece 25.0 28.7% 784 7.9k#30
26Russia 24.1 3.2% 6.2k 11k#29
27Romania 23.2 22.6% 862 7.6k#37
28South Africa 22.3 22.3% 805 6k#31
29Bangladesh 21.5 21.1% 853 5.9k#41
30?? 20.7 11.1% 1.7k 7.4k#36
31Thailand 20.0 19.4% 1.4k 9.9k#35
32Ethiopia 19.2 20.1% 758 5.4k#47
33New Zealand 18.5 29.4% 467 6.1k#26
34Ireland 17.8 34.4% 492 6.6k#15
35Japan 17.1 10.0% 2.1k 8.5k#17
36Denmark 16.5 25.6% 638 6.1k#24
37Switzerland 15.8 26.9% 462 4.5k#21
38Belgium 15.2 25.0% 669 6k#16
39Iraq 14.6 6.9% 1.2k 3.1k#59
40Sweden 14.0 28.4% 444 4.7k#23
41United Arab Emirates 13.4 30.2% 306 3.2k#54
42Singapore 12.9 32.9% 264 3.4k#45
43Morocco 12.3 21.3% 637 4.7k#51
44Hungary 11.8 15.3% 599 3.2k#53
45Taiwan 11.3 19.8% 658 5.1k#43
46Serbia 10.8 19.1% 618 4.3k#49
47Colombia 10.3 9.7% 1.3k 4.5k#50
48Finland 9.8 27.0% 316 3.6k#32
49Argentina 9.3 11.1% 1k 4.6k#40
50Czechia 8.8 14.2% 556 3.3k#46
51Chile 8.4 17.5% 531 3.2k#48
52Ghana 7.9 21.4% 317 2k#61
53Peru 7.5 7.8% 966 2.6k#62
54Norway 7.0 20.8% 335 2.6k#38
55Ecuador 6.6 6.4% 1k 2k#67
56Vietnam 6.2 10.4% 845 3k#58
57Austria 5.8 21.4% 276 2.5k#42
58Ukraine 5.4 3.4% 1.6k 2.3k#56
59Croatia 5.0 16.0% 368 2.6k#57
60Israel 4.6 24.3% 229 2k#44
61Tunisia 4.2 17.6% 438 2.9k#55
62Algeria 3.8 11.2% 589 2.6k#65
63Bulgaria 3.4 11.1% 473 2k#64
64Sri Lanka 3.1 13.4% 261 1.3k#71
65Kazakhstan 2.7 5.1% 758 1.5k#75
66Slovakia 2.3 13.3% 275 1.5k#60
67Kenya 2.0 12.0% 339 1.5k#63
68Slovenia 1.7 16.2% 209 1.5k#66
69Uzbekistan 131.3 4.6% 485 743#73
70Philippines 97.8 4.3% 544 1k#76
71Cameroon 64.7 9.2% 244 896#77
72Nepal 32.1 7.5% 286 849#68
73Belarus 0.0 2.1% 201 220#85

countries ranked worldwide in Food Science (73). 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: 15 places5 – 10: 11 places10 – 15: 9 places15 – 20: 8 places20 – 25: 6 places25 – 30: 4 places30 – 35: 4 places35 – 40: 3 places40 – 45: 3 places45 – 50: 2 places50 – 55: 2 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 Indonesia 26k works
  2. 2 China 24k works
  3. 3 India 12k works
  4. 4 United States 9.5k works
  5. 5 Brazil 6.9k works
  6. 6 Russia 6.2k works
  7. 7 Türkiye 4.9k works
  8. 8 Mexico 3.7k works
  9. 9 Italy 3.3k works
  10. 10 Spain 3.2k works
  11. 11 Iran 2.8k works
  12. 12 France 2.8k works