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Subfield · Ophthalmology

Top Countries in Ophthalmology Research

United States ranks first in 2022-now, followed by China and United Kingdom, out of 43 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 12.4% 11k 57k#1
2China 81.6 14.5% 8.3k 52k#7
3United Kingdom 70.8 13.7% 2.4k 14k#2
4Germany 63.1 10.9% 1.9k 8.9k#3
5Australia 57.2 17.3% 972 7.7k#5
6France 52.4 11.2% 1.2k 5.5k#6
7Singapore 48.3 19.7% 403 3.8k#4
8Switzerland 44.7 12.9% 497 2.9k#9
9Canada 41.6 13.0% 937 4.9k#8
10Netherlands 38.8 19.4% 344 2.5k#10
11Italy 36.2 15.8% 1.5k 9.5k#13
12Austria 33.9 15.3% 264 1.5k#16
13Sweden 31.8 12.8% 266 1.3k#14
14Japan 29.8 9.0% 2.1k 9.3k#15
15Denmark 28.0 16.8% 251 1.8k#17
16South Korea 26.3 8.3% 1.6k 6.6k#12
17Spain 24.7 8.0% 1.5k 6k#11
18Israel 23.2 8.9% 406 1.6k#18
19Taiwan 21.7 12.0% 651 3.4k#20
20Belgium 20.4 11.2% 213 955#23
21Poland 19.1 9.5% 586 2.7k#31
22India 17.8 5.0% 6.1k 15k#25
23Portugal 16.6 8.3% 382 1.5k#26
24Brazil 15.5 4.9% 1k 2.5k#22
25Saudi Arabia 14.4 8.5% 644 2.5k#28
26Greece 13.4 10.0% 271 1.1k#30
27Thailand 12.4 8.9% 257 1.2k#34
28Romania 11.4 17.0% 200 1.2k#44
29Mexico 10.5 5.8% 330 928#32
30Iran 9.6 7.9% 1.1k 3.5k#36
31Türkiye 8.7 4.3% 1.9k 4.9k#38
32Colombia 7.9 5.0% 208 393#39
33Ukraine 7.0 2.9% 253 303#47
34Egypt 6.2 3.8% 1k 2.3k#41
35Nepal 5.5 2.8% 206 278#48
36Malaysia 4.7 4.5% 353 949#46
37Pakistan 4.0 3.5% 688 1.2k#45
38Russia 3.3 1.5% 1.2k 1.5k#43
39Morocco 2.6 2.7% 285 364#50
40Tunisia 1.9 2.3% 216 270#52
41Nigeria 126.6 2.2% 323 469#54
42Indonesia 62.6 1.8% 654 540#53
43Iraq 0.0 3.7% 222 392#55

countries ranked worldwide in Ophthalmology (43). 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: 8 places5 to 10: 6 places10 to 15: 5 places15 to 20: 4 places20 to 25: 4 places25 to 30: 3 places30 to 35: 2 places35 to 40: 2 places40 to 45: 2 places45 to 50: 1 places50 to 55: 1 places55 to 60: 1 places60 to 65: 1 places65 to 70: 0 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 13k works
  2. 2 China 9.7k works
  3. 3 India 7.1k works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 2.9k works
  5. 5 Japan 2.5k works
  6. 6 Germany 2.3k works
  7. 7 Türkiye 2.2k works
  8. 8 Spain 1.9k works
  9. 9 Italy 1.8k works
  10. 10 South Korea 1.8k works
  11. 11 Russia 1.4k works
  12. 12 France 1.4k works