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Top Countries in Library and Information Sciences Research

United States ranks first in 2022-now, followed by India and Nigeria, out of 3 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
1United States 100.0 9.1% 1.5k 2.2k#1
2India 36.9 5.2% 334 273#5
3Nigeria 0.0 7.0% 389 407#7

countries ranked worldwide in Library and Information Sciences (3). 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).

Ranked by volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.8k works
  2. 2 Nigeria 486 works
  3. 3 India 442 works
  4. 4 Canada 203 works
  5. 5 Ghana 163 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 151 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 142 works
  8. 8 Australia 138 works
  9. 9 China 102 works
  10. 10 Pakistan 76 works
  11. 11 Germany 73 works
  12. 12 Russia 72 works