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Top Countries in Media Technology Research

China ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 47 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 20.2% 21k 173k#2
2United States 82.0 10.9% 8.2k 32k#1
3India 71.5 10.8% 6.7k 24k#5
4United Kingdom 64.0 19.8% 1.5k 10k#3
5Australia 58.2 26.8% 806 7.8k#6
6Germany 53.5 15.7% 1.4k 7.6k#4
7Italy 49.5 20.4% 1.1k 7.3k#7
8Indonesia 46.0 5.8% 4.1k 4.2k#22
9Saudi Arabia 42.9 31.1% 429 4.3k#25
10Spain 40.2 17.9% 867 5.2k#9
11France 37.7 13.3% 920 5.7k#8
12Canada 35.5 15.4% 891 4.8k#10
13South Korea 33.4 15.0% 1.1k 7.2k#11
14South Africa 31.5 19.2% 537 2.7k#26
15Hong Kong 29.7 29.2% 359 4.1k#15
16Türkiye 28.0 12.7% 894 4.1k#23
17Malaysia 26.4 11.8% 932 3.1k#21
18?? 24.9 12.1% 808 3.8k#33
19Iran 23.5 17.5% 495 3.6k#20
20Japan 22.2 7.8% 1.4k 4.3k#12
21Netherlands 20.9 25.0% 359 2.6k#13
22Pakistan 19.7 18.3% 371 2.6k#36
23Singapore 18.6 27.7% 257 2.7k#17
24Brazil 17.5 7.4% 1k 2.4k#24
25Taiwan 16.4 13.8% 606 3.1k#14
26Russia 15.4 7.2% 848 1.9k#32
27Finland 14.4 22.4% 238 1.8k#27
28United Arab Emirates 13.5 20.8% 204 1.9k#43
29Greece 12.5 19.4% 317 1.9k#29
30Poland 11.7 14.6% 431 2.1k#37
31Bangladesh 10.8 14.5% 364 1.8k#42
32Egypt 10.0 15.8% 359 2k#38
33Sweden 9.2 21.8% 248 1.8k#18
34Portugal 8.4 12.8% 368 1.5k#28
35Norway 7.7 20.9% 212 1.7k#31
36Romania 6.9 13.6% 298 1k#46
37Nigeria 6.2 7.8% 475 1.1k#47
38Thailand 5.5 10.7% 335 1.2k#44
39Morocco 4.8 16.7% 266 1.3k#49
40Belgium 4.2 13.8% 233 1.4k#19
41Vietnam 3.5 14.1% 282 1.1k#48
42Denmark 2.9 14.7% 202 817#35
43Mexico 2.3 9.5% 332 809#39
44Iraq 1.7 7.5% 422 1.5k#54
45Colombia 112.9 12.6% 211 683#53
46Philippines 55.9 6.2% 328 414#58
47Ukraine 0.0 7.9% 290 526#51

countries ranked worldwide in Media Technology (47). 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: 9 places5 – 10: 7 places10 – 15: 5 places15 – 20: 5 places20 – 25: 4 places25 – 30: 3 places30 – 35: 2 places35 – 40: 2 places40 – 45: 2 places45 – 50: 2 places50 – 55: 1 places55 – 60: 1 places60 – 65: 1 places65 – 70: 0 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 21k works
  2. 2 United States 8.2k works
  3. 3 India 6.7k works
  4. 4 Indonesia 4.1k works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 1.5k works
  6. 6 Germany 1.4k works
  7. 7 Japan 1.4k works
  8. 8 South Korea 1.1k works
  9. 9 Italy 1.1k works
  10. 10 Brazil 1k works
  11. 11 Malaysia 932 works
  12. 12 France 920 works