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Top Countries in Inorganic Chemistry Research

China ranks first in 2022-now, followed by United States and Germany, out of 33 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
1China 100.0 13.1% 20k 284k#2
2United States 80.2 9.8% 4.5k 46k#1
3Germany 68.6 8.5% 2.2k 21k#3
4United Kingdom 60.4 10.6% 1.1k 12k#4
5India 54.0 8.2% 4.4k 37k#9
6France 48.8 7.4% 1.5k 13k#5
7Spain 44.3 8.4% 928 10k#6
8Switzerland 40.5 11.6% 262 3.1k#7
9South Korea 37.2 10.9% 979 12k#13
10Canada 34.1 9.8% 545 5.5k#10
11Australia 31.4 13.1% 490 7.1k#12
12Japan 28.9 4.6% 1.9k 13k#8
13Netherlands 26.6 12.4% 209 3k#14
14Saudi Arabia 24.5 18.5% 579 9k#15
15Italy 22.5 7.2% 600 4.9k#19
16Belgium 20.7 10.3% 231 2.6k#18
17Taiwan 19.0 8.3% 294 3.2k#27
18Poland 17.3 7.9% 509 3.9k#23
19Czechia 15.8 6.2% 262 1.8k#22
20Thailand 14.3 9.8% 247 1.8k#30
21Iran 12.9 10.1% 1k 13k#37
22Brazil 11.6 5.8% 711 3.3k#32
23South Africa 10.3 8.5% 224 1.7k#35
24Russia 9.1 2.1% 2.4k 9.3k#31
25Türkiye 7.9 7.0% 582 4k#45
26Pakistan 6.8 17.9% 316 4.3k#39
27Mexico 5.7 4.4% 314 1.7k#42
28Malaysia 4.7 9.0% 344 2.6k#44
29Vietnam 3.7 5.6% 228 1.5k#46
30Egypt 2.7 13.9% 518 6k#47
31Ukraine 1.8 1.7% 233 626#51
32Indonesia 88.0 1.9% 1.6k 2.9k#50
33Iraq 0.0 10.0% 221 1.8k#54

countries ranked worldwide in Inorganic Chemistry (33). 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: 6 places5 to 10: 4 places10 to 15: 4 places15 to 20: 3 places20 to 25: 3 places25 to 30: 2 places30 to 35: 2 places35 to 40: 1 places40 to 45: 2 places45 to 50: 1 places50 to 55: 1 places55 to 60: 0 places60 to 65: 1 places65 to 70: 1 places70 to 75: 0 places75 to 80: 0 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 China 23k works
  2. 2 United States 5.1k works
  3. 3 India 5.1k works
  4. 4 Russia 2.6k works
  5. 5 Germany 2.5k works
  6. 6 Japan 2.2k works
  7. 7 Indonesia 1.7k works
  8. 8 France 1.7k works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 1.2k works
  10. 10 Iran 1.1k works
  11. 11 South Korea 1.1k works
  12. 12 Spain 1k works