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Top Countries in Instrumentation Research

United States ranks first in 2022-now, followed by China and United Kingdom, out of 13 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.

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Ranked by research quality, 2022-now

#CountryScoreTop-10% rateWorksCitationsAll time
1United States 100.0 10.5% 2.2k 19k#1
2China 73.0 10.6% 2.9k 14k#2
3United Kingdom 57.2 13.6% 536 5.8k#3
4France 46.0 10.4% 534 6.1k#4
5Germany 37.3 9.0% 532 4k#5
6Italy 30.1 11.4% 410 3.7k#6
7Spain 24.1 11.1% 287 3k#8
8Australia 18.9 12.8% 233 2.5k#9
9Canada 14.3 11.8% 212 1.8k#12
10Japan 10.2 7.4% 370 2.4k#11
11South Korea 6.5 9.2% 223 1.1k#16
12India 3.1 3.1% 296 1k#19
13Russia 0.0 2.3% 261 628#25

countries ranked worldwide in Instrumentation (13). 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: 2 places5 to 10: 1 places10 to 15: 2 places15 to 20: 1 places20 to 25: 1 places25 to 30: 0 places30 to 35: 1 places35 to 40: 1 places40 to 45: 0 places45 to 50: 1 places50 to 55: 0 places55 to 60: 1 places60 to 65: 0 places65 to 70: 0 places70 to 75: 1 places75 to 80: 0 places80 to 85: 0 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 3.3k works
  2. 2 United States 3.2k works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 688 works
  4. 4 France 681 works
  5. 5 Germany 670 works
  6. 6 Italy 564 works
  7. 7 Japan 462 works
  8. 8 India 373 works
  9. 9 Spain 368 works
  10. 10 Russia 319 works
  11. 11 Australia 301 works
  12. 12 South Korea 258 works