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Top Countries in Marketing Research

China ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 56 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 39.8% 10k 117k#2
2India 82.8 23.1% 6.6k 35k#4
3United States 72.7 22.5% 8.2k 51k#1
4United Kingdom 65.6 34.7% 2.7k 28k#3
5Italy 60.0 36.1% 2k 21k#7
6Australia 55.5 38.2% 1.4k 16k#5
7Malaysia 51.7 26.3% 2k 14k#13
8Indonesia 48.3 5.0% 24k 27k#18
9Spain 45.4 38.2% 1.5k 15k#8
10South Korea 42.8 33.2% 1.5k 13k#11
11Germany 40.4 25.5% 2.3k 15k#6
12Pakistan 38.3 28.3% 1.1k 11k#22
13France 36.3 24.4% 1.4k 9.9k#12
14Portugal 34.4 36.3% 945 8.2k#19
15Vietnam 32.7 35.1% 829 6.5k#29
16Türkiye 31.1 15.8% 2.3k 8.4k#20
17Saudi Arabia 29.6 45.1% 523 6.1k#31
18Canada 28.2 28.6% 964 7.2k#9
19Netherlands 26.9 37.9% 669 7.3k#10
20Taiwan 25.6 34.4% 821 7.3k#14
21Hong Kong 24.4 40.8% 487 5.6k#17
22?? 23.2 14.9% 1.3k 4.9k#37
23Finland 22.1 40.0% 443 5.9k#16
24Poland 21.0 20.2% 1.1k 5.8k#30
25Bangladesh 20.0 33.9% 454 3.8k#38
26Thailand 19.1 25.7% 661 4.2k#33
27Jordan 18.1 43.4% 201 2.3k#43
28Brazil 17.2 14.3% 1.6k 6.4k#24
29Macau 16.3 47.1% 265 2.9k#41
30Greece 15.5 39.1% 392 3.2k#32
31Sweden 14.7 41.4% 474 5.2k#15
32Egypt 13.9 26.5% 401 2.8k#46
33Iran 13.1 22.8% 572 3.4k#34
34South Africa 12.4 24.4% 580 3.5k#35
35Norway 11.7 36.1% 322 3.7k#26
36United Arab Emirates 11.0 35.8% 313 2.9k#40
37Romania 10.3 26.5% 492 3.1k#44
38Switzerland 9.6 25.1% 404 3.6k#21
39Austria 9.0 34.0% 322 2.9k#28
40Denmark 8.4 30.6% 328 2.7k#23
41Japan 7.7 15.4% 980 3.4k#36
42New Zealand 7.1 40.1% 220 2.6k#25
43Belgium 6.6 32.7% 287 2.3k#27
44Hungary 6.0 24.5% 320 1.9k#48
45Singapore 5.4 34.2% 228 2.2k#39
46Ghana 4.9 33.9% 250 1.7k#49
47Morocco 4.4 24.8% 238 1.2k#53
48Russia 3.8 9.5% 685 2k#47
49Nigeria 3.3 10.1% 580 1.2k#56
50Czechia 2.8 21.5% 265 1.2k#52
51Philippines 2.3 11.0% 412 955#58
52Mexico 1.8 15.8% 361 1.4k#50
53Peru 136.8 22.2% 220 1k
54Colombia 90.3 21.9% 222 1.1k#60
55Sri Lanka 44.8 13.3% 230 735#63
56Ukraine 0.0 9.4% 275 497#64

countries ranked worldwide in Marketing (56). 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: 8 places10 – 15: 7 places15 – 20: 5 places20 – 25: 5 places25 – 30: 4 places30 – 35: 3 places35 – 40: 2 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 Indonesia 24k works
  2. 2 China 10k works
  3. 3 United States 8.2k works
  4. 4 India 6.6k works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 2.7k works
  6. 6 Türkiye 2.3k works
  7. 7 Germany 2.3k works
  8. 8 Italy 2k works
  9. 9 Malaysia 2k works
  10. 10 Brazil 1.6k works
  11. 11 Spain 1.5k works
  12. 12 South Korea 1.5k works