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Top Countries in Neurology (Medicine) Research

United States ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 59 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
1United States 100.0 14.1% 29k 179k#1
2China 83.0 16.6% 16k 101k#6
3United Kingdom 73.1 19.0% 5.2k 46k#2
4Germany 66.0 18.1% 5k 37k#3
5Italy 60.5 21.8% 5k 41k#5
6Canada 56.1 18.3% 2.9k 20k#4
7France 52.3 15.0% 3.4k 21k#7
8Spain 49.0 15.0% 3k 18k#11
9Australia 46.1 17.8% 2k 15k#10
10India 43.5 5.9% 7.2k 17k#14
11Netherlands 41.2 24.1% 1.6k 16k#8
12Japan 39.1 7.1% 6.4k 22k#9
13South Korea 37.1 11.3% 2.9k 14k#17
14Switzerland 35.3 18.3% 1.1k 9.3k#13
15Sweden 33.6 24.9% 882 8.6k#12
16Denmark 32.0 22.0% 698 6.8k#15
17Brazil 30.5 7.6% 3.3k 11k#19
18Iran 29.1 11.3% 1.7k 8.5k#25
19Belgium 27.8 17.1% 724 5.4k#16
20?? 26.5 14.5% 791 6.1k#22
21Türkiye 25.3 4.3% 2.9k 6.6k#24
22Poland 24.2 12.5% 1.2k 5.9k#27
23Austria 23.1 19.4% 606 4.5k#18
24Greece 22.1 15.2% 724 4.4k#26
25Israel 21.1 15.2% 616 3.8k#20
26Taiwan 20.1 14.9% 1.1k 6.3k#28
27Saudi Arabia 19.2 10.5% 866 3.9k#37
28Norway 18.3 24.7% 351 3.4k#21
29Russia 17.4 3.3% 2.3k 4.4k#32
30Egypt 16.6 8.5% 1.1k 3.6k#38
31Romania 15.8 17.4% 517 3.1k#44
32Finland 15.0 19.3% 360 2.7k#23
33Singapore 14.2 16.8% 414 2.6k#31
34Mexico 13.5 5.9% 914 2.5k#35
35Portugal 12.8 8.2% 834 3k#30
36Ireland 12.1 14.2% 403 2.4k#29
37Czechia 11.4 11.9% 408 2k#34
38New Zealand 10.8 16.0% 236 1.8k#33
39Thailand 10.2 11.8% 478 2k#47
40Pakistan 9.5 4.4% 929 1.8k#43
41Malaysia 8.9 8.1% 415 1.4k#41
42Indonesia 8.3 2.2% 985 1.4k#51
43Colombia 7.8 5.2% 557 1.1k#45
44Hungary 7.2 14.3% 239 1.3k#42
45Bangladesh 6.6 8.4% 293 924#48
46Argentina 6.1 6.4% 413 1k#39
47Chile 5.6 9.4% 267 1k#46
48Iraq 5.1 7.6% 284 880#62
49Nigeria 4.6 6.8% 228 831#55
50Serbia 4.1 7.7% 215 778#50
51Ukraine 3.6 2.9% 446 617#61
52Croatia 3.1 7.5% 229 693#49
53Morocco 2.6 2.3% 546 478#53
54Tunisia 2.2 2.8% 390 521#56
55Vietnam 1.7 5.6% 213 614#63
56Philippines 128.0 4.7% 230 503#60
57Peru 84.6 4.0% 213 428#66
58Ecuador 41.9 3.9% 231 283#68
59Nepal 0.0 2.9% 266 497#65

countries ranked worldwide in Neurology (59). 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: 9 places10 – 15: 7 places15 – 20: 6 places20 – 25: 5 places25 – 30: 4 places30 – 35: 3 places35 – 40: 3 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 United States 29k works
  2. 2 China 16k works
  3. 3 India 7.2k works
  4. 4 Japan 6.4k works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 5.2k works
  6. 6 Germany 5k works
  7. 7 Italy 5k works
  8. 8 France 3.4k works
  9. 9 Brazil 3.3k works
  10. 10 Spain 3k works
  11. 11 Türkiye 2.9k works
  12. 12 Canada 2.9k works