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Top Countries in Philosophy Research

United States ranks first in 2022-now, followed by Germany and United Kingdom, out of 47 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 10.8% 15k 18k#1
2Germany 82.0 10.4% 5.3k 4.7k#3
3United Kingdom 71.5 14.6% 5.1k 9.7k#2
4France 64.0 6.5% 6.1k 2k#4
5Switzerland 58.2 13.7% 994 2.1k#7
6Netherlands 53.5 14.9% 1.1k 2.3k#9
7Spain 49.5 11.7% 3.2k 1.9k#8
8Canada 46.0 11.8% 2k 2.7k#5
9China 42.9 13.3% 2.1k 4.5k#16
10Austria 40.2 11.6% 724 759#14
11Australia 37.7 11.7% 1.7k 2.3k#6
12Sweden 35.5 17.3% 552 1.1k#15
13Israel 33.4 13.4% 570 775#11
14Denmark 31.5 14.2% 504 999#12
15Belgium 29.7 13.0% 731 757#13
16Italy 28.0 9.7% 2.1k 3.8k#18
17Poland 26.4 9.0% 3.1k 1.3k#21
18Brazil 24.9 8.4% 9.9k 2.8k#10
19Norway 23.5 13.0% 519 835#17
20India 22.2 8.3% 4.7k 1.7k#19
21Finland 20.9 15.6% 425 559#20
22Argentina 19.7 8.0% 988 294#31
23Japan 18.6 9.0% 640 519#32
24Czechia 17.5 9.7% 490 342#29
25Chile 16.4 8.5% 660 290#25
26South Africa 15.4 15.7% 490 653#23
27Portugal 14.4 9.7% 777 422#26
28Türkiye 13.5 8.7% 7.3k 9k#30
29South Korea 12.5 10.6% 258 240#27
30Hungary 11.7 10.4% 389 302#36
31Ireland 10.8 10.7% 332 350#28
32Mexico 10.0 7.6% 809 317#37
33Greece 9.2 12.1% 291 334#42
34Russia 8.4 7.0% 1.5k 741#35
35Peru 7.7 9.0% 213 77#39
36Ukraine 6.9 8.9% 475 227#54
37Croatia 6.2 5.7% 272 106#45
38Philippines 5.5 8.8% 210 163#44
39Romania 4.8 6.7% 512 194#51
40Colombia 4.2 8.9% 357 136#43
41Uzbekistan 3.5 8.2% 585 77#62
42Iran 2.9 6.7% 444 369#55
43Indonesia 2.3 6.4% 2k 746#56
44Malaysia 1.7 9.6% 235 234#50
45Pakistan 112.9 7.9% 628 271#52
46Nigeria 55.9 9.7% 276 233#59
47Iraq 0.0 4.9% 331 88#64

countries ranked worldwide in Philosophy (47). 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: 9 places5 to 10: 7 places10 to 15: 5 places15 to 20: 5 places20 to 25: 4 places25 to 30: 3 places30 to 35: 2 places35 to 40: 2 places40 to 45: 2 places45 to 50: 2 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 18k works
  2. 2 Brazil 10k works
  3. 3 Türkiye 8k works
  4. 4 France 6.5k works
  5. 5 India 6.3k works
  6. 6 Germany 6.2k works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 5.8k works
  8. 8 Spain 3.6k works
  9. 9 Poland 3.4k works
  10. 10 Italy 2.4k works
  11. 11 China 2.3k works
  12. 12 Canada 2.3k works