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Top Countries in Pathology and Forensic Medicine Research

China ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 58 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 22.6% 19k 156k#3
2United States 82.9 13.3% 22k 125k#1
3United Kingdom 72.9 15.1% 3.8k 24k#2
4Italy 65.9 19.3% 3.9k 27k#5
5Germany 60.4 15.0% 3.6k 22k#4
6France 55.9 11.1% 3.5k 15k#7
7Australia 52.1 18.8% 1.7k 13k#8
8India 48.8 6.3% 6.4k 16k#15
9Canada 45.9 15.8% 2.3k 15k#6
10Spain 43.3 13.3% 2.7k 14k#11
11Japan 40.9 8.7% 4.7k 18k#9
12South Korea 38.8 13.1% 2.8k 15k#16
13Switzerland 36.8 16.4% 1.1k 7k#12
14Netherlands 35.0 20.7% 1.1k 8.9k#10
15Poland 33.3 16.2% 1.3k 7.7k#18
16Iran 31.7 12.0% 2.2k 11k#22
17Türkiye 30.2 6.7% 3k 7.9k#26
18Brazil 28.8 6.8% 2.6k 7.4k#21
19Denmark 27.5 18.3% 729 5k#14
20?? 26.2 15.2% 760 4.7k#23
21Sweden 25.0 19.7% 663 5.3k#13
22Egypt 23.9 10.4% 1.6k 5.7k#32
23Greece 22.8 16.5% 630 3.7k#27
24Saudi Arabia 21.7 12.9% 977 4.9k#33
25Belgium 20.7 14.8% 599 3.7k#17
26Taiwan 19.8 14.1% 992 5.5k#29
27Romania 18.8 17.6% 484 2.8k#43
28Austria 17.9 14.5% 453 2.8k#19
29Thailand 17.1 15.5% 567 3.2k#39
30Russia 16.2 3.3% 1.7k 3.2k#34
31Portugal 15.4 10.0% 714 3k#30
32Singapore 14.6 15.6% 367 2.5k#31
33Indonesia 13.9 3.6% 1.4k 2.3k#45
34Norway 13.2 20.0% 299 2.5k#24
35Hong Kong 12.4 26.8% 200 2k#36
36Pakistan 11.7 4.7% 975 2k#46
37Israel 11.1 12.9% 431 2.3k#25
38Finland 10.4 18.8% 267 1.8k#20
39Mexico 9.8 6.1% 769 2.2k#40
40Malaysia 9.2 9.7% 398 2.1k#42
41Czechia 8.5 12.2% 382 1.9k#35
42Ireland 7.9 14.6% 342 2k#37
43New Zealand 7.4 15.8% 204 1.5k#28
44Hungary 6.8 12.1% 273 1.4k#44
45Chile 6.3 12.9% 258 1.2k#47
46Iraq 5.7 4.2% 611 1.2k#60
47Argentina 5.2 8.1% 342 1.2k#41
48South Africa 4.7 12.1% 251 1.1k#38
49Bangladesh 4.2 7.7% 311 893#52
50Serbia 3.7 11.1% 206 743#49
51Nigeria 3.2 5.8% 360 874#53
52Croatia 2.7 10.0% 205 939#50
53Colombia 2.2 4.5% 382 748#51
54Morocco 1.8 2.2% 595 638#56
55Tunisia 130.8 2.3% 526 668#57
56Vietnam 86.4 6.6% 236 603#63
57Ukraine 42.8 2.3% 438 524#62
58Nepal 0.0 3.4% 215 368#66

countries ranked worldwide in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (58). 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: 4 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 22k works
  2. 2 China 19k works
  3. 3 India 6.4k works
  4. 4 Japan 4.7k works
  5. 5 Italy 3.9k works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 3.8k works
  7. 7 Germany 3.6k works
  8. 8 France 3.5k works
  9. 9 Türkiye 3k works
  10. 10 South Korea 2.8k works
  11. 11 Spain 2.7k works
  12. 12 Brazil 2.6k works