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Top Countries in General Materials Science Research

China ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 8 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 17.9% 1.3k 5.9k#3
2Russia 66.7 7.1% 2.7k 3.3k#2
3India 47.2 14.1% 411 1.2k#10
4Ukraine 33.3 10.9% 698 1k#7
5United States 22.6 5.7% 862 1.1k#1
6Poland 13.8 17.9% 230 657#9
7Germany 6.4 11.9% 222 386#6
8Japan 0.0 6.7% 252 330#5

countries ranked worldwide in General Materials Science (8). 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.

Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Russia 2.7k works
  2. 2 China 1.3k works
  3. 3 United States 862 works
  4. 4 Ukraine 698 works
  5. 5 India 411 works
  6. 6 Japan 252 works
  7. 7 Poland 230 works
  8. 8 Germany 222 works
  9. 9 Uzbekistan 198 works
  10. 10 France 163 works
  11. 11 Türkiye 148 works
  12. 12 Belarus 131 works