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Top Countries in General Health Professions Research

United States ranks first in 2022-now, followed by United Kingdom and Germany, out of 84 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 10.0% 63k 268k#1
2United Kingdom 84.4 12.2% 19k 88k#2
3Germany 75.2 10.9% 11k 33k#3
4China 68.7 18.6% 9.7k 60k#7
5France 63.7 8.7% 15k 12k#6
6Australia 59.6 14.3% 10k 57k#5
7Canada 56.1 12.2% 11k 50k#4
8Switzerland 53.1 12.2% 2.8k 10k#8
9Netherlands 50.4 13.4% 3.8k 21k#9
10Spain 48.0 11.8% 5.7k 19k#10
11Sweden 45.9 12.5% 2.4k 13k#11
12Denmark 43.9 10.2% 1.9k 8.7k#14
13Norway 42.1 11.7% 1.9k 9.3k#15
14Singapore 40.4 17.5% 774 5.2k#18
15South Korea 38.9 12.3% 2.8k 13k#13
16Italy 37.4 13.9% 3.7k 17k#21
17Austria 36.1 8.7% 1.2k 3.2k#17
18Finland 34.8 10.3% 1.5k 6.3k#19
19Belgium 33.5 11.0% 1.8k 5.9k#16
20Israel 32.4 10.4% 1.1k 4.4k#20
21Brazil 31.3 7.4% 21k 27k#12
22Japan 30.2 8.1% 3.1k 9.6k#28
23India 29.2 6.9% 10k 21k#22
24South Africa 28.3 10.8% 2.8k 13k#25
25Portugal 27.4 9.8% 2.2k 6.6k#27
26Ireland 26.5 10.6% 1.7k 7k#24
27Taiwan 25.6 13.7% 1.1k 5k#30
28New Zealand 24.8 11.2% 1.1k 5.4k#23
29Chile 24.0 9.5% 1.5k 3k#26
30Poland 23.2 8.1% 1.8k 6.2k#33
31Saudi Arabia 22.5 14.5% 1.8k 8.1k#29
32Uganda 21.8 11.3% 487 2.2k#35
33Czechia 21.1 8.1% 596 1.4k#38
34Peru 20.4 7.9% 1.8k 2.6k#31
35Ethiopia 19.8 22.1% 1.1k 8k#36
36Hungary 19.1 8.8% 773 1.9k#45
37Ecuador 18.5 6.8% 2.5k 2.5k#34
38Argentina 17.9 6.3% 1.1k 1.7k#40
39Greece 17.3 11.8% 842 4.2k#44
40Mexico 16.7 6.4% 3.4k 4.5k#37
41Bangladesh 16.2 11.7% 844 3k#50
42Ghana 15.6 13.3% 658 3.3k#53
43Slovenia 15.1 7.6% 341 986#43
44Tanzania 14.6 10.0% 412 1.4k#67
45Türkiye 14.1 7.4% 5.2k 11k#49
46Kenya 13.6 8.3% 743 2.5k#46
47Thailand 13.1 10.4% 842 2.8k#52
48United Arab Emirates 12.6 13.7% 473 2.4k#48
49Qatar 12.2 14.9% 307 1.6k#47
50Colombia 11.7 7.6% 2.1k 3k#39
51Bolivia 11.3 5.3% 230 238#65
52Iran 10.8 10.0% 3.2k 12k#54
53Indonesia 10.4 7.8% 24k 16k#51
54Cuba 10.0 18.5% 427 337#77
55Democratic Republic of the Congo 9.6 10.3% 224 209#63
56Uruguay 9.2 5.3% 238 263#68
57Romania 8.8 10.9% 710 2.4k#75
58Malaysia 8.4 9.4% 1.7k 5.4k#60
59Paraguay 8.0 6.0% 309 281#79
60Philippines 7.6 5.7% 839 1.7k#61
61Lebanon 7.2 15.9% 229 1.2k#66
62Croatia 6.9 5.1% 432 985#70
63Russia 6.5 3.7% 2.3k 3.3k#59
64Ukraine 6.1 5.6% 836 1.7k#87
65Costa Rica 5.8 6.5% 296 290#73
66Slovakia 5.4 8.1% 260 660#69
67Uzbekistan 5.1 5.8% 1.1k 247#96
68Lithuania 4.8 6.9% 235 634#78
69Jordan 4.4 15.2% 427 2.3k#83
70Vietnam 4.1 8.4% 431 1.3k#62
71Pakistan 3.8 6.5% 2.1k 4.4k#71
72Venezuela 3.5 3.6% 293 227#97
73Nepal 3.2 7.1% 617 1.3k#74
74Nigeria 2.9 6.0% 2.3k 5.3k#81
75Sri Lanka 2.6 5.1% 297 626#89
76Serbia 2.3 6.3% 311 675#90
77Kazakhstan 2.0 9.1% 343 672#84
78Egypt 1.7 7.6% 1.3k 3.1k#86
79Morocco 138.5 10.1% 573 762#94
80Bulgaria 110.1 3.6% 261 320#95
81Cameroon 82.1 11.2% 279 447#85
82Tunisia 54.4 4.6% 445 363#100
83Algeria 27.0 8.0% 202 134#98
84Iraq 0.0 5.1% 924 1.5k-

countries ranked worldwide in General Health Professions (84). 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: 17 places5 to 10: 14 places10 to 15: 10 places15 to 20: 9 places20 to 25: 7 places25 to 30: 5 places30 to 35: 5 places35 to 40: 3 places40 to 45: 3 places45 to 50: 2 places50 to 55: 2 places55 to 60: 2 places60 to 65: 1 places65 to 70: 1 places70 to 75: 0 places75 to 80: 1 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 United States 70k works
  2. 2 Indonesia 26k works
  3. 3 Brazil 23k works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 21k works
  5. 5 France 16k works
  6. 6 Germany 13k works
  7. 7 India 12k works
  8. 8 Canada 12k works
  9. 9 Australia 11k works
  10. 10 China 11k works
  11. 11 Spain 6.4k works
  12. 12 Türkiye 5.9k works