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Top Countries in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Research

China ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 48 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 42.5% 2.4k 20k#3
2United States 82.1 18.8% 5.4k 15k#1
3India 71.6 10.3% 8.2k 12k#7
4Indonesia 64.2 4.2% 44k 29k#9
5Germany 58.4 32.9% 989 5.6k#4
6United Kingdom 53.7 30.4% 1.1k 6.2k#2
7Italy 49.7 32.8% 624 3.4k#10
8Spain 46.3 21.2% 1.1k 3.8k#12
9South Africa 43.2 37.9% 514 2.8k#14
10Ethiopia 40.5 38.1% 592 4.2k#18
11Netherlands 38.1 43.1% 395 3.3k#5
12Australia 35.8 33.2% 681 3.7k#6
13France 33.7 19.5% 900 3k#11
14Kenya 31.8 28.6% 434 2.3k#13
15Canada 30.0 23.6% 612 2.3k#8
16Mexico 28.4 8.4% 2.3k 3.3k#15
17Ukraine 26.8 12.4% 2.9k 4.3k#24
18Brazil 25.3 13.8% 1.2k 2.5k#19
19Nigeria 23.9 12.0% 897 1.7k#31
20Poland 22.6 22.0% 579 2k#20
21Switzerland 21.4 37.2% 218 1.6k#21
22?? 20.2 7.4% 1.6k 2k#34
23Colombia 19.0 11.2% 1.1k 2.1k#29
24Sweden 17.9 44.4% 237 1.5k#16
25Ghana 16.9 36.6% 249 1.4k#32
26Malaysia 15.8 15.0% 529 1.3k#35
27Japan 14.9 17.3% 482 1.4k#27
28Bangladesh 13.9 17.5% 644 1.6k#37
29Russia 13.0 5.7% 2.9k 2.9k#22
30Ecuador 12.1 10.1% 920 1k#44
31Pakistan 11.3 14.0% 459 1k#47
32Hungary 10.5 22.1% 235 819#38
33Türkiye 9.7 17.7% 420 964#46
34Romania 8.9 19.6% 278 766#40
35Portugal 8.2 27.9% 212 848#41
36Tanzania 7.4 23.1% 296 789#48
37Peru 6.7 10.4% 769 994#43
38Iran 6.0 17.4% 223 653#42
39Argentina 5.4 7.8% 620 727#45
40Thailand 4.7 17.4% 214 634#52
41Chile 4.1 17.6% 299 595#49
42Czechia 3.4 24.7% 201 639#39
43Philippines 2.8 10.7% 433 476#50
44Nepal 2.2 12.7% 287 435#56
45Egypt 1.7 5.2% 540 604#57
46Iraq 109.9 6.3% 335 331#68
47Kazakhstan 54.4 7.6% 234 288#64
48Uzbekistan 0.0 5.8% 290 242#65

countries ranked worldwide in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences (48). 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: 9 places5 – 10: 7 places10 – 15: 6 places15 – 20: 4 places20 – 25: 4 places25 – 30: 3 places30 – 35: 3 places35 – 40: 2 places40 – 45: 2 places45 – 50: 2 places50 – 55: 1 places55 – 60: 1 places60 – 65: 1 places65 – 70: 0 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 44k works
  2. 2 India 8.2k works
  3. 3 United States 5.4k works
  4. 4 Ukraine 2.9k works
  5. 5 Russia 2.9k works
  6. 6 China 2.4k works
  7. 7 Mexico 2.3k works
  8. 8 ?? 1.6k works
  9. 9 Brazil 1.2k works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 1.1k works
  11. 11 Spain 1.1k works
  12. 12 Colombia 1.1k works