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Top Countries in Public Administration Research

United States ranks first in 2022-now, followed by United Kingdom and Germany, out of 17 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.

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Ranked by research quality, 2022-now

#CountryScoreTop-10% rateWorksCitationsAll time
1United States 100.0 9.6% 2.7k 8.5k#1
2United Kingdom 75.5 15.3% 1.1k 5k#2
3Germany 61.2 9.7% 582 1.8k#4
4Australia 51.1 14.6% 617 1.9k#3
5Netherlands 43.2 15.8% 256 1.6k#6
6China 36.8 13.0% 526 2.2k#9
7Canada 31.3 10.8% 528 1.6k#5
8Sweden 26.6 11.9% 296 1.2k#8
9Denmark 22.4 14.4% 231 1.1k#10
10Norway 18.7 16.3% 228 1.2k#12
11Spain 15.4 11.2% 202 648#11
12Italy 12.3 14.2% 328 1.4k#16
13France 9.5 5.0% 242 339#13
14South Africa 6.9 5.0% 245 498#21
15India 4.4 4.0% 236 337#23
16Brazil 2.1 3.6% 228 377#22
17Indonesia 0.0 2.9% 252 262#27

countries ranked worldwide in Public Administration (17). 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: 3 places5 to 10: 2 places10 to 15: 1 places15 to 20: 2 places20 to 25: 1 places25 to 30: 1 places30 to 35: 1 places35 to 40: 1 places40 to 45: 1 places45 to 50: 0 places50 to 55: 1 places55 to 60: 0 places60 to 65: 1 places65 to 70: 0 places70 to 75: 0 places75 to 80: 1 places80 to 85: 0 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 3k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 1.2k works
  3. 3 Australia 681 works
  4. 4 Germany 634 works
  5. 5 China 608 works
  6. 6 Canada 579 works
  7. 7 Italy 362 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 337 works
  9. 9 Sweden 323 works
  10. 10 India 291 works
  11. 11 South Africa 287 works
  12. 12 Netherlands 280 works