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Top Countries in General Health Professions Research

United States ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 86 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 18.5% 63k 268k#1
2United Kingdom 84.4 21.7% 19k 88k#2
3China 75.3 32.0% 8.8k 55k#7
4Australia 68.9 26.0% 10k 57k#4
5Canada 63.9 21.5% 11k 50k#3
6Germany 59.8 16.9% 11k 33k#5
7India 56.3 9.9% 10k 21k#14
8Italy 53.3 23.1% 3.7k 17k#9
9Netherlands 50.7 26.1% 3.8k 21k#6
10Spain 48.3 16.8% 5.7k 19k#12
11Brazil 46.2 5.8% 21k 27k#8
12South Korea 44.2 20.9% 2.8k 13k#21
13Switzerland 42.4 16.9% 2.8k 10k#13
14France 40.8 4.2% 15k 12k#11
15Sweden 39.2 27.7% 2.4k 13k#10
16Iran 37.8 16.4% 3.2k 12k#25
17?? 36.4 10.6% 4.8k 9.9k#19
18Türkiye 35.1 12.5% 5.2k 11k#30
19Indonesia 33.9 2.8% 24k 16k#26
20Saudi Arabia 32.7 23.7% 1.8k 8.1k#31
21South Africa 31.7 23.1% 2.8k 13k#17
22Norway 30.6 26.1% 1.9k 9.3k#15
23Denmark 29.6 21.8% 1.9k 8.7k#16
24Japan 28.7 14.7% 3.1k 9.6k#24
25Ethiopia 27.7 34.3% 1.1k 8k#38
26Portugal 26.9 15.5% 2.2k 6.6k#28
27Malaysia 26.0 16.1% 1.7k 5.4k#35
28Ireland 25.2 19.7% 1.7k 7k#22
29Belgium 24.4 17.0% 1.8k 5.9k#18
30Finland 23.6 24.7% 1.5k 6.3k#20
31Hong Kong 22.9 31.6% 764 4.7k#29
32Singapore 22.2 30.1% 774 5.2k#34
33Poland 21.5 16.1% 1.8k 6.2k#36
34Greece 20.8 23.2% 842 4.2k#33
35Pakistan 20.2 9.7% 2.1k 4.4k#39
36New Zealand 19.6 20.8% 1.1k 5.4k#23
37Nigeria 18.9 10.1% 2.3k 5.3k#42
38Taiwan 18.3 22.3% 1.1k 5k#37
39Israel 17.8 22.1% 1.1k 4.4k#27
40Austria 17.2 15.3% 1.2k 3.2k#32
41Egypt 16.6 10.3% 1.3k 3.1k#45
42Mexico 16.1 5.1% 3.4k 4.5k#40
43United Arab Emirates 15.6 22.7% 473 2.4k#57
44Bangladesh 15.0 18.7% 844 3k#47
45Ghana 14.5 26.2% 658 3.3k#48
46Romania 14.0 18.0% 710 2.4k#51
47Russia 13.6 7.4% 2.3k 3.3k#41
48Thailand 13.1 18.0% 842 2.8k#50
49Jordan 12.6 25.7% 427 2.3k#58
50Colombia 12.2 5.5% 2.1k 3k#53
51Chile 11.7 10.2% 1.5k 3k#44
52Ukraine 11.3 9.9% 836 1.7k#65
53Hungary 10.9 14.6% 773 1.9k#54
54Ecuador 10.4 4.5% 2.5k 2.5k#66
55Kenya 10.0 15.1% 743 2.5k#43
56Uganda 9.6 22.9% 487 2.2k#49
57Peru 9.2 5.9% 1.8k 2.6k#59
58Qatar 8.8 23.8% 307 1.6k#46
59Philippines 8.5 9.7% 839 1.7k#64
60Argentina 8.1 5.7% 1.1k 1.7k#55
61Tanzania 7.7 20.1% 412 1.4k#61
62Lebanon 7.3 27.5% 229 1.2k#62
63Uzbekistan 7.0 5.9% 1.1k 247#83
64Vietnam 6.6 16.9% 431 1.3k#56
65Nepal 6.3 10.3% 617 1.3k#60
66Czechia 5.9 14.1% 596 1.4k#52
67Iraq 5.6 5.5% 924 1.5k#74
68Morocco 5.3 8.6% 573 762#75
69Slovenia 4.9 17.5% 341 986#63
70Croatia 4.6 11.0% 432 985#67
71Kazakhstan 4.3 13.9% 343 672#87
72Sri Lanka 4.0 11.2% 297 626#79
73Serbia 3.7 12.4% 311 675#70
74Lithuania 3.4 15.5% 235 634#81
75Slovakia 3.1 11.2% 260 660#69
76Cameroon 2.8 8.5% 279 447#78
77Tunisia 2.5 3.8% 445 363#90
78Bulgaria 2.2 7.0% 261 320#68
79Cuba 1.9 2.8% 427 337#71
80Venezuela 1.6 2.6% 293 227#85
81Bolivia 134.5 4.1% 230 238#94
82Uruguay 106.9 5.0% 238 263#96
83Paraguay 79.7 3.3% 309 281#98
84Costa Rica 52.8 3.8% 296 290#89
85Democratic Republic of the Congo 26.3 5.0% 224 209
86Algeria 0.0 4.2% 202 134#91

countries ranked worldwide in General Health Professions (86). 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: 18 places5 – 10: 13 places10 – 15: 11 places15 – 20: 9 places20 – 25: 7 places25 – 30: 6 places30 – 35: 4 places35 – 40: 4 places40 – 45: 3 places45 – 50: 2 places50 – 55: 2 places55 – 60: 2 places60 – 65: 1 places65 – 70: 1 places70 – 75: 0 places75 – 80: 1 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 63k works
  2. 2 Indonesia 24k works
  3. 3 Brazil 21k works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 19k works
  5. 5 France 15k works
  6. 6 Germany 11k works
  7. 7 Canada 11k works
  8. 8 India 10k works
  9. 9 Australia 10k works
  10. 10 China 8.8k works
  11. 11 Spain 5.7k works
  12. 12 Türkiye 5.2k works