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Top Countries in Pharmaceutical Science Research

China ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 23 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 26.5% 4.3k 58k#2
2United States 77.9 17.6% 2.3k 23k#1
3India 65.0 11.2% 4.4k 28k#5
4United Kingdom 55.8 22.5% 603 7.2k#3
5South Korea 48.7 19.6% 504 5.7k#10
6Saudi Arabia 42.9 27.0% 409 6.6k#20
7Iran 37.9 24.0% 562 6.8k#16
8Egypt 33.7 24.9% 490 6.4k#21
9Germany 29.9 13.7% 630 5.3k#4
10Italy 26.6 23.0% 396 4.8k#9
11Spain 23.5 21.5% 305 3.3k#12
12Poland 20.7 17.7% 310 3.8k#23
13Japan 18.2 8.3% 758 4.2k#6
14Australia 15.8 25.8% 215 2.8k#13
15Canada 13.6 19.8% 253 2.6k#8
16France 11.6 13.5% 457 3.3k#7
17Indonesia 9.6 7.5% 462 2.1k#34
18Pakistan 7.8 15.5% 401 3.9k#32
19Brazil 6.1 12.5% 413 3.1k#25
20Russia 4.5 3.9% 662 2.4k#18
21Thailand 2.9 22.9% 235 2.6k#35
22Türkiye 141.8 12.7% 353 2.4k#37
23Iraq 0.0 5.3% 256 1k#46

countries ranked worldwide in Pharmaceutical Science (23). 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: 4 places5 – 10: 3 places10 – 15: 2 places15 – 20: 2 places20 – 25: 2 places25 – 30: 2 places30 – 35: 1 places35 – 40: 1 places40 – 45: 1 places45 – 50: 1 places50 – 55: 0 places55 – 60: 1 places60 – 65: 1 places65 – 70: 0 places70 – 75: 0 places75 – 80: 1 places80 – 85: 0 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 India 4.4k works
  2. 2 China 4.3k works
  3. 3 United States 2.3k works
  4. 4 Japan 758 works
  5. 5 Russia 662 works
  6. 6 Germany 630 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 603 works
  8. 8 Iran 562 works
  9. 9 South Korea 504 works
  10. 10 Egypt 490 works
  11. 11 Indonesia 462 works
  12. 12 France 457 works