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Top Countries in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Research

China ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 58 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 21.2% 32k 322k#2
2United States 82.9 19.1% 17k 154k#1
3India 72.9 17.9% 5.8k 47k#6
4United Kingdom 65.9 21.8% 4k 40k#3
5Australia 60.4 26.4% 2.1k 26k#7
6Germany 55.9 22.2% 2.7k 26k#5
7Canada 52.1 19.8% 2.5k 24k#4
8Italy 48.8 23.1% 2.5k 25k#8
9Spain 45.9 18.9% 2.5k 23k#9
10France 43.3 15.4% 2.4k 20k#10
11South Korea 40.9 16.9% 2.3k 20k#16
12Netherlands 38.8 25.5% 1k 11k#11
13Iran 36.8 16.2% 1.7k 14k#22
14Poland 35.0 16.3% 1.4k 12k#19
15Hong Kong 33.3 33.4% 590 7.9k#20
16Japan 31.7 12.8% 2k 13k#13
17Sweden 30.2 23.6% 881 9.9k#12
18Switzerland 28.8 25.1% 675 8.5k#14
19Brazil 27.5 10.1% 2.5k 14k#21
20Pakistan 26.2 16.2% 878 7.4k#28
21Portugal 25.0 19.7% 818 7.9k#25
22Türkiye 23.9 10.8% 1.8k 9.3k#29
23?? 22.8 15.2% 982 7.9k#26
24Malaysia 21.7 14.2% 840 6.2k#32
25Nigeria 20.7 9.8% 1.2k 5.7k#42
26Egypt 19.8 17.3% 903 7.2k#39
27Greece 18.8 22.0% 553 5k#23
28Saudi Arabia 17.9 22.1% 646 7.3k#35
29Denmark 17.1 21.3% 609 6k#15
30Taiwan 16.2 14.8% 1k 7.7k#27
31Norway 15.4 22.2% 513 5.6k#18
32Belgium 14.6 20.0% 566 5.2k#17
33Romania 13.9 18.9% 363 3.2k#44
34Bangladesh 13.2 20.4% 488 5.5k#38
35Mexico 12.4 7.7% 1.4k 6k#31
36Singapore 11.7 30.2% 283 4.2k#37
37Finland 11.1 23.0% 444 4.7k#24
38South Africa 10.4 16.3% 583 4.7k#33
39Austria 9.8 22.3% 352 3.2k#30
40Thailand 9.2 15.7% 640 4.1k#49
41Ireland 8.5 19.5% 309 2.9k#40
42Indonesia 7.9 5.2% 1.1k 2.7k#45
43Russia 7.4 5.1% 1.3k 4.3k#41
44Czechia 6.8 15.7% 468 4k#36
45New Zealand 6.3 21.8% 274 3k#34
46Colombia 5.7 6.2% 853 2.4k#46
47Hungary 5.2 17.0% 240 2k#48
48Ethiopia 4.7 22.1% 221 2k#58
49Iraq 4.2 6.6% 483 1.7k#55
50Chile 3.7 12.0% 413 2.3k#50
51Ecuador 3.2 4.2% 967 1.2k#57
52Israel 2.7 17.2% 255 1.9k#43
53Vietnam 2.2 10.3% 394 2.3k#54
54Argentina 1.8 7.0% 493 2.1k#47
55Peru 130.8 3.3% 775 1.3k#61
56Serbia 86.4 11.6% 258 1.6k#60
57Philippines 42.8 4.6% 263 626#64
58Ukraine 0.0 4.7% 287 747#66

countries ranked worldwide in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (58). 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: 11 places5 – 10: 9 places10 – 15: 7 places15 – 20: 6 places20 – 25: 4 places25 – 30: 4 places30 – 35: 3 places35 – 40: 3 places40 – 45: 2 places45 – 50: 2 places50 – 55: 1 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 China 32k works
  2. 2 United States 17k works
  3. 3 India 5.8k works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 4k works
  5. 5 Germany 2.7k works
  6. 6 Canada 2.5k works
  7. 7 Brazil 2.5k works
  8. 8 Spain 2.5k works
  9. 9 Italy 2.5k works
  10. 10 France 2.4k works
  11. 11 South Korea 2.3k works
  12. 12 Australia 2.1k works