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Top Countries in Materials Chemistry Research

China ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 74 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 20.5% 158k 2.3M#2
2United States 83.9 15.3% 33k 359k#1
3India 74.5 14.0% 38k 362k#7
4South Korea 67.8 16.8% 12k 151k#8
5United Kingdom 62.6 17.9% 7.4k 91k#5
6Germany 58.4 13.0% 12k 115k#3
7Australia 54.8 24.2% 3.8k 67k#9
8Saudi Arabia 51.7 22.4% 5.8k 88k#22
9Japan 49.0 8.1% 15k 108k#4
10France 46.5 10.8% 9.8k 79k#6
11Iran 44.3 16.0% 7.7k 86k#17
12?? 42.3 17.8% 4.7k 62k#20
13Canada 40.4 17.7% 3.9k 47k#10
14Hong Kong 38.7 31.4% 1.9k 40k#19
15Singapore 37.1 28.4% 1.7k 36k#14
16Egypt 35.6 22.1% 4k 57k#29
17Italy 34.2 14.3% 5.8k 57k#11
18Pakistan 32.8 20.7% 3.5k 50k#34
19Spain 31.6 14.1% 5.1k 55k#13
20Türkiye 30.4 12.5% 6k 49k#24
21Russia 29.3 4.1% 17k 65k#16
22Poland 28.2 11.1% 4.6k 39k#25
23Switzerland 27.2 20.3% 1.8k 25k#12
24Bangladesh 26.2 24.2% 1.4k 21k#42
25Malaysia 25.2 15.2% 2.7k 29k#32
26Sweden 24.3 16.9% 1.8k 22k#18
27Taiwan 23.4 12.9% 3.8k 40k#21
28Iraq 22.6 11.2% 3k 23k#43
29Netherlands 21.8 18.5% 1.7k 21k#15
30Brazil 21.0 8.5% 4.8k 33k#26
31Portugal 20.2 15.5% 1.4k 16k#36
32Belgium 19.5 15.1% 1.5k 16k#23
33South Africa 18.8 15.3% 1.5k 17k#39
34Czechia 18.1 11.2% 2.2k 19k#31
35United Arab Emirates 17.4 22.9% 785 12k#55
36Indonesia 16.7 4.5% 4.6k 15k#44
37Nigeria 16.1 12.0% 1.4k 11k#51
38Austria 15.5 13.5% 1.3k 12k#27
39Morocco 14.9 19.1% 1.5k 16k#56
40Mexico 14.3 7.3% 2.8k 18k#38
41Algeria 13.7 11.1% 1.5k 12k#54
42Ukraine 13.2 4.5% 2.9k 8.6k#41
43Denmark 12.6 15.7% 992 12k#30
44Finland 12.1 16.3% 878 11k#35
45Norway 11.6 14.0% 724 7.8k#33
46Israel 11.0 13.5% 1k 10k#28
47Thailand 10.5 11.7% 1.8k 15k#47
48Romania 10.1 10.4% 1.3k 9.8k#48
49Vietnam 9.6 8.6% 2.1k 15k#53
50Ethiopia 9.1 24.4% 423 6k#62
51Greece 8.6 13.6% 873 8.5k#40
52Macau 8.2 31.4% 313 6.7k#61
53Ireland 7.8 17.5% 503 6.6k#37
54New Zealand 7.3 19.3% 328 4.9k#46
55Jordan 6.9 17.5% 486 5.6k#66
56Chile 6.5 13.0% 602 5.5k#58
57Hungary 6.1 10.7% 755 5.2k#45
58Slovakia 5.7 10.3% 658 4.6k#52
59Slovenia 5.3 11.2% 524 4.6k#50
60Tunisia 4.9 10.7% 720 6k#64
61Kazakhstan 4.5 7.6% 807 3.7k#69
62Qatar 4.1 20.5% 262 4k#59
63Uzbekistan 3.7 7.4% 618 2.4k#75
64Bulgaria 3.4 5.7% 614 2.9k#57
65Argentina 3.0 6.9% 770 4.5k#49
66Serbia 2.7 8.5% 526 3.4k#60
67Colombia 2.3 6.8% 518 3.4k#63
68Azerbaijan 2.0 7.9% 461 2k#78
69Nepal 1.6 11.0% 256 1.8k#76
70Belarus 129.1 4.2% 567 2k#68
71Lithuania 96.2 8.5% 324 2.5k#67
72Croatia 63.7 8.0% 349 2.3k#65
73Philippines 31.6 8.6% 228 1.2k#81
74Latvia 0.0 6.8% 220 1.5k#73

countries ranked worldwide in Materials Chemistry (74). 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: 15 places5 – 10: 11 places10 – 15: 10 places15 – 20: 7 places20 – 25: 6 places25 – 30: 5 places30 – 35: 4 places35 – 40: 3 places40 – 45: 3 places45 – 50: 2 places50 – 55: 2 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 158k works
  2. 2 India 38k works
  3. 3 United States 33k works
  4. 4 Russia 17k works
  5. 5 Japan 15k works
  6. 6 South Korea 12k works
  7. 7 Germany 12k works
  8. 8 France 9.8k works
  9. 9 Iran 7.7k works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 7.4k works
  11. 11 Türkiye 6k works
  12. 12 Italy 5.8k works