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Top Countries in Psychiatry and Mental health Research

United States ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 55 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 15.4% 27k 153k#1
2China 82.7 23.5% 9.7k 74k#6
3United Kingdom 72.6 20.7% 6.4k 45k#2
4Italy 65.4 23.7% 3.7k 29k#7
5Australia 59.8 23.7% 3k 24k#4
6Germany 55.3 18.3% 3.8k 23k#5
7Canada 51.4 18.1% 3.7k 22k#3
8Spain 48.1 16.1% 3.3k 18k#11
9Netherlands 45.2 22.4% 1.9k 15k#8
10France 42.5 15.1% 2.4k 13k#9
11Sweden 40.2 24.3% 1.1k 10k#10
12Denmark 38.0 23.2% 1.1k 8.7k#12
13India 36.0 7.3% 4.5k 12k#17
14Japan 34.1 11.7% 3.1k 14k#13
15South Korea 32.4 15.2% 2k 11k#21
16Brazil 30.8 7.6% 3.3k 9.1k#16
17Switzerland 29.3 19.9% 1k 6.5k#14
18Norway 27.9 22.7% 711 5.8k#18
19Belgium 26.5 18.5% 705 4.3k#15
20Iran 25.2 10.4% 1.8k 7.6k#31
21Poland 24.0 14.2% 1.1k 5.1k#26
22Türkiye 22.9 7.0% 3.3k 8.1k#28
23Greece 21.8 18.7% 575 3.3k#29
24?? 20.7 14.2% 763 4.3k#22
25Taiwan 19.7 16.8% 1.1k 6.5k#24
26Portugal 18.7 13.2% 842 3.9k#30
27Ireland 17.8 17.4% 531 3k#23
28Singapore 16.8 21.6% 402 2.9k#34
29Israel 16.0 15.9% 688 3.5k#19
30Hong Kong 15.1 26.2% 352 2.9k#33
31Saudi Arabia 14.3 13.2% 767 3.4k#37
32Austria 13.5 17.9% 442 2.5k#25
33Finland 12.7 20.4% 414 2.8k#20
34Egypt 12.0 8.7% 951 3k#41
35Russia 11.3 4.5% 1.4k 3k#36
36Malaysia 10.6 11.7% 395 1.8k#43
37Chile 9.9 15.6% 322 1.5k#40
38South Africa 9.2 14.4% 369 1.8k#35
39New Zealand 8.6 18.2% 318 1.9k#27
40Mexico 7.9 6.8% 620 1.7k#39
41Thailand 7.3 15.3% 353 1.6k#45
42Romania 6.7 16.2% 330 1.4k#47
43Pakistan 6.1 5.0% 767 1.6k#44
44Indonesia 5.6 3.2% 1.1k 1.3k#51
45Ethiopia 5.0 20.0% 220 1.5k#49
46Hungary 4.5 15.0% 291 1.5k#38
47Czechia 3.9 11.5% 320 1.4k#32
48Colombia 3.4 8.1% 420 1.1k#46
49Argentina 2.9 6.8% 347 868#42
50Bangladesh 2.4 9.8% 233 748#55
51Nigeria 1.9 7.2% 319 876#50
52Tunisia 140.0 5.3% 299 488#57
53Ukraine 92.4 4.5% 313 390#58
54Iraq 45.8 4.0% 202 461#61
55Morocco 0.0 3.5% 220 299#60

countries ranked worldwide in Psychiatry and Mental health (55). 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: 10 places5 – 10: 9 places10 – 15: 6 places15 – 20: 6 places20 – 25: 4 places25 – 30: 4 places30 – 35: 3 places35 – 40: 2 places40 – 45: 2 places45 – 50: 2 places50 – 55: 1 places55 – 60: 2 places60 – 65: 0 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 27k works
  2. 2 China 9.7k works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 6.4k works
  4. 4 India 4.5k works
  5. 5 Germany 3.8k works
  6. 6 Italy 3.7k works
  7. 7 Canada 3.7k works
  8. 8 Türkiye 3.3k works
  9. 9 Spain 3.3k works
  10. 10 Brazil 3.3k works
  11. 11 Japan 3.1k works
  12. 12 Australia 3k works