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Top Countries in Mechanics of Materials Research

China ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 64 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 18.6% 59k 478k#2
2United States 83.3 11.6% 12k 63k#1
3India 73.6 12.7% 9k 51k#9
4United Kingdom 66.7 15.8% 3.3k 24k#3
5Germany 61.3 11.5% 4.9k 27k#4
6Australia 56.9 21.4% 1.6k 16k#10
7France 53.2 10.6% 3.8k 19k#5
8Iran 50.0 16.2% 2.9k 22k#11
9Italy 47.2 15.6% 2.8k 18k#7
10Canada 44.6 14.8% 2.2k 14k#8
11Türkiye 42.3 11.7% 2.4k 13k#20
12Saudi Arabia 40.3 18.9% 1.2k 10k#31
13Russia 38.3 3.1% 9.9k 18k#12
14South Korea 36.5 12.1% 2.3k 15k#13
15?? 34.9 14.2% 1.4k 9.5k#26
16Japan 33.3 6.4% 4.4k 16k#6
17Poland 31.9 10.1% 2.1k 12k#16
18Egypt 30.5 16.6% 1.1k 8k#32
19Ukraine 29.2 5.3% 2k 3.7k#34
20Hong Kong 28.0 26.4% 488 5k#25
21Brazil 26.8 7.4% 2k 8.5k#27
22Malaysia 25.7 10.8% 977 4.9k#33
23Singapore 24.6 24.4% 382 4.1k#19
24Netherlands 23.6 15.1% 720 5.2k#14
25Portugal 22.6 13.9% 751 5.3k#21
26Austria 21.7 11.5% 707 4.5k#28
27Spain 20.8 11.5% 1.4k 7.7k#15
28Vietnam 19.9 13.5% 891 5.6k#35
29Iraq 19.0 6.4% 861 3.2k#47
30Switzerland 18.2 15.4% 527 3.4k#17
31Sweden 17.4 13.8% 703 4.8k#18
32Belgium 16.7 15.0% 564 3.9k#23
33Taiwan 15.9 9.8% 791 4.4k#30
34Pakistan 15.2 14.0% 533 3.3k#43
35Norway 14.5 14.5% 564 3.7k#24
36Romania 13.8 9.4% 648 2.6k#39
37Indonesia 13.2 3.4% 1.7k 2.6k#51
38Denmark 12.5 14.9% 408 2.6k#22
39Algeria 11.9 9.9% 611 3.1k#41
40Czechia 11.3 8.3% 857 3.6k#36
41United Arab Emirates 10.7 17.4% 318 2.3k#53
42South Africa 10.1 10.6% 364 2k#40
43Kazakhstan 9.6 7.1% 596 1.6k#61
44Greece 9.0 11.2% 431 2.2k#37
45Hungary 8.5 9.1% 417 1.8k#45
46Morocco 7.9 11.8% 353 1.4k#58
47Mexico 7.4 6.1% 605 2.2k#44
48Nigeria 6.9 6.0% 584 1.9k#60
49Thailand 6.4 10.8% 398 2.2k#50
50Finland 5.9 12.5% 340 2.1k#38
51Israel 5.5 12.2% 298 1.7k#29
52Bangladesh 5.0 14.2% 236 1.3k#65
53Uzbekistan 4.5 5.9% 561 1.3k#63
54Slovenia 4.1 10.6% 246 1.5k#48
55Chile 3.6 10.8% 205 1.3k#55
56Slovakia 3.2 6.4% 331 1.5k#49
57Serbia 2.8 5.2% 287 1k#54
58Argentina 2.4 8.1% 231 842#52
59Tunisia 2.0 7.6% 217 831#57
60Azerbaijan 1.6 5.0% 269 475#69
61Colombia 115.4 7.0% 230 865#56
62Bulgaria 76.3 4.2% 311 629#59
63Croatia 37.9 3.7% 220 801#64
64Belarus 0.0 2.5% 262 362#67

countries ranked worldwide in Mechanics of Materials (64). 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: 13 places5 – 10: 9 places10 – 15: 8 places15 – 20: 7 places20 – 25: 5 places25 – 30: 4 places30 – 35: 4 places35 – 40: 2 places40 – 45: 3 places45 – 50: 1 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 59k works
  2. 2 United States 12k works
  3. 3 Russia 9.9k works
  4. 4 India 9k works
  5. 5 Germany 4.9k works
  6. 6 Japan 4.4k works
  7. 7 France 3.8k works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 3.3k works
  9. 9 Iran 2.9k works
  10. 10 Italy 2.8k works
  11. 11 Türkiye 2.4k works
  12. 12 South Korea 2.3k works