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Top Countries in Oncology Research

United States ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 67 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 15.9% 58k 495k#1
2China 83.5 22.7% 47k 449k#2
3United Kingdom 73.9 16.2% 9.3k 67k#3
4Germany 67.0 17.5% 8.5k 66k#4
5Italy 61.7 21.4% 8.1k 70k#6
6France 57.4 17.1% 5.9k 60k#5
7India 53.7 9.8% 12k 51k#15
8Spain 50.5 15.5% 5.6k 40k#11
9Japan 47.7 10.9% 12k 62k#7
10Canada 45.2 17.6% 4.6k 36k#8
11Australia 43.0 19.6% 4.2k 37k#10
12Netherlands 40.9 23.3% 3.3k 35k#9
13South Korea 39.0 15.1% 5.4k 38k#14
14Switzerland 37.2 21.1% 1.8k 19k#12
15?? 35.6 19.2% 2.1k 20k#17
16Iran 34.1 16.0% 3.2k 23k#22
17Poland 32.6 16.6% 2.1k 15k#21
18Türkiye 31.3 8.3% 4.9k 16k#31
19Sweden 30.0 20.5% 1.5k 12k#13
20Belgium 28.8 18.1% 1.3k 12k#16
21Saudi Arabia 27.6 17.9% 1.6k 11k#34
22Denmark 26.5 18.9% 1.5k 11k#18
23Singapore 25.4 20.6% 863 9.3k#23
24Taiwan 24.4 16.1% 2.2k 16k#26
25Brazil 23.4 7.6% 4.1k 13k#24
26Austria 22.5 17.1% 1k 7.8k#20
27Egypt 21.6 12.5% 2.1k 10k#36
28Israel 20.8 15.9% 1.1k 8.8k#19
29Greece 19.9 16.4% 1.2k 7.4k#28
30Hong Kong 19.1 25.3% 569 6.1k#29
31Romania 18.3 18.5% 969 6k#41
32Russia 17.6 4.8% 3.1k 9.4k#32
33Pakistan 16.8 8.4% 1.6k 5.4k#42
34Ireland 16.1 13.8% 865 5.1k#30
35Norway 15.4 18.7% 731 5.3k#27
36Portugal 14.8 13.2% 1.2k 7k#35
37New Zealand 14.1 18.5% 408 3.8k#33
38Ethiopia 13.5 21.1% 440 3.9k#45
39Hungary 12.9 14.7% 580 3.8k#40
40Czechia 12.3 13.1% 681 4.1k#37
41Malaysia 11.7 12.7% 784 4.3k#38
42Finland 11.1 19.6% 565 4.4k#25
43Mexico 10.5 8.0% 1.2k 4.3k#43
44South Africa 10.0 13.6% 634 3.8k#39
45Bangladesh 9.5 10.8% 615 2.7k#46
46Thailand 8.9 12.7% 798 4.2k#44
47Indonesia 8.4 3.5% 1.9k 2.9k#52
48Iraq 7.9 4.7% 1k 2.6k#54
49United Arab Emirates 7.4 16.8% 299 1.9k#58
50Jordan 7.0 15.2% 376 2k#60
51Qatar 6.5 17.6% 206 1.9k#48
52Nigeria 6.0 7.0% 661 1.9k#59
53Serbia 5.6 11.4% 378 1.9k#53
54Argentina 5.1 8.4% 474 1.8k#47
55Chile 4.7 10.2% 394 1.7k#49
56Vietnam 4.3 8.4% 404 1.5k#56
57Colombia 3.8 5.3% 606 1.5k#62
58Morocco 3.4 5.8% 714 1.6k#63
59Lebanon 3.0 13.3% 220 1.4k#61
60Croatia 2.6 9.9% 338 1.3k#55
61Ukraine 2.2 3.0% 536 991#51
62Slovenia 1.8 10.2% 221 1.1k#57
63Tunisia 146.4 2.9% 487 715#64
64Nepal 108.9 5.5% 285 653#70
65Bulgaria 72.1 5.4% 279 751#65
66Peru 35.8 6.6% 230 733#71
67Philippines 0.0 6.3% 235 562#68

countries ranked worldwide in Oncology (67). 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: 10 places10 – 15: 9 places15 – 20: 7 places20 – 25: 5 places25 – 30: 5 places30 – 35: 3 places35 – 40: 3 places40 – 45: 2 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 United States 58k works
  2. 2 China 47k works
  3. 3 Japan 12k works
  4. 4 India 12k works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 9.3k works
  6. 6 Germany 8.5k works
  7. 7 Italy 8.1k works
  8. 8 France 5.9k works
  9. 9 Spain 5.6k works
  10. 10 South Korea 5.4k works
  11. 11 Türkiye 4.9k works
  12. 12 Canada 4.6k works