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Top Countries in Neurology (Medicine) Research

United States ranks first in 2022-now, followed by Germany and United Kingdom, out of 58 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 11.6% 29k 179k#1
2Germany 82.9 13.5% 5k 37k#2
3United Kingdom 72.9 13.9% 5.2k 46k#3
4France 65.9 12.0% 3.4k 21k#4
5China 60.4 12.6% 16k 103k#8
6Netherlands 55.9 17.8% 1.6k 16k#6
7Switzerland 52.1 14.8% 1.1k 9.3k#7
8Canada 48.8 12.9% 2.9k 20k#5
9Sweden 45.9 17.7% 882 8.6k#9
10Italy 43.3 14.8% 5k 41k#11
11Spain 40.9 10.8% 3k 18k#12
12Australia 38.8 13.6% 2k 15k#10
13Denmark 36.8 16.4% 698 6.8k#13
14Austria 35.0 15.0% 606 4.5k#14
15Belgium 33.3 13.8% 724 5.4k#15
16Israel 31.7 11.1% 616 3.8k#17
17Norway 30.2 15.5% 351 3.4k#16
18Japan 28.8 5.8% 6.4k 22k#21
19South Korea 27.5 8.6% 2.9k 14k#19
20Singapore 26.2 12.2% 414 2.6k#20
21Finland 25.0 14.4% 360 2.7k#18
22Taiwan 23.9 10.1% 1.1k 6.3k#22
23New Zealand 22.8 11.4% 236 1.8k#23
24Ireland 21.7 10.0% 403 2.4k#24
25Brazil 20.7 5.3% 3.3k 11k#25
26Czechia 19.8 8.4% 408 2k#27
27Poland 18.8 9.7% 1.2k 5.9k#35
28Chile 17.9 6.2% 267 1k#26
29Hungary 17.1 11.2% 239 1.3k#32
30Portugal 16.2 6.0% 834 3k#28
31Greece 15.4 10.6% 724 4.4k#29
32Argentina 14.6 4.5% 413 1k#30
33Thailand 13.9 8.3% 478 2k#38
34India 13.2 3.5% 7.2k 17k#34
35Romania 12.4 13.3% 517 3.1k#50
36Saudi Arabia 11.7 7.4% 866 3.9k#33
37Iran 11.1 7.6% 1.7k 8.5k#47
38Mexico 10.4 4.2% 914 2.5k#39
39Croatia 9.8 5.9% 229 693#52
40Ecuador 9.2 3.2% 231 283#45
41Colombia 8.5 3.9% 557 1.1k#42
42Peru 7.9 3.5% 213 428#40
43Bangladesh 7.4 5.8% 293 924#55
44Türkiye 6.8 2.8% 2.9k 6.6k#46
45Philippines 6.3 3.9% 230 503#41
46Egypt 5.7 5.5% 1.1k 3.6k#54
47Vietnam 5.2 4.0% 213 614#49
48Russia 4.7 2.4% 2.3k 4.4k#53
49Serbia 4.2 4.3% 215 778#57
50Malaysia 3.7 5.1% 415 1.4k#56
51Ukraine 3.2 1.8% 446 617#62
52Pakistan 2.7 3.6% 929 1.8k#60
53Nepal 2.2 2.8% 266 497#59
54Tunisia 1.8 2.1% 390 521#61
55Nigeria 130.8 5.4% 228 831#64
56Iraq 86.4 6.2% 284 880#66
57Indonesia 42.8 2.4% 985 1.4k#65
58Morocco 0.0 1.0% 546 478#63

countries ranked worldwide in Neurology (58). 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).

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 to 5: 11 places5 to 10: 9 places10 to 15: 7 places15 to 20: 6 places20 to 25: 4 places25 to 30: 4 places30 to 35: 3 places35 to 40: 3 places40 to 45: 2 places45 to 50: 2 places50 to 55: 1 places55 to 60: 1 places60 to 65: 1 places65 to 70: 1 places70 to 75: 1 places75 to 80: 0 places80 to 85: 1 places85 to 90: 0 places90 to 95: 0 places95 to 100: 1 places0100

One bar per band of score, counting the rows on this page.

Ranked by volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 33k works
  2. 2 China 18k works
  3. 3 India 8.2k works
  4. 4 Japan 7.2k works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 5.9k works
  6. 6 Germany 5.7k works
  7. 7 Italy 5.6k works
  8. 8 France 3.9k works
  9. 9 Brazil 3.6k works
  10. 10 Spain 3.4k works
  11. 11 Türkiye 3.3k works
  12. 12 Canada 3.3k works