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Top Countries in Public Administration Research

United States ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 17 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 18.2% 2.7k 8.5k#1
2United Kingdom 75.5 25.5% 1.1k 5k#2
3Germany 61.2 21.8% 582 1.8k#3
4China 51.1 27.5% 443 1.7k#10
5Italy 43.2 28.7% 328 1.4k#7
6Australia 36.8 20.2% 617 1.9k#5
7Netherlands 31.3 35.1% 256 1.6k#4
8Canada 26.6 19.2% 528 1.6k#6
9Norway 22.4 30.2% 228 1.2k#14
10Denmark 18.7 30.2% 231 1.1k#9
11Sweden 15.4 24.9% 296 1.2k#8
12Spain 12.3 25.7% 202 648#11
13South Africa 9.5 17.1% 245 498#18
14France 6.9 11.1% 242 339#15
15Brazil 4.4 14.2% 228 377#24
16Indonesia 2.1 9.3% 252 262#28
17India 0.0 10.3% 236 337#25

countries ranked worldwide in Public Administration (17). 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: 3 places5 – 10: 2 places10 – 15: 1 places15 – 20: 2 places20 – 25: 1 places25 – 30: 1 places30 – 35: 1 places35 – 40: 1 places40 – 45: 1 places45 – 50: 0 places50 – 55: 1 places55 – 60: 0 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 United States 2.7k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 1.1k works
  3. 3 Australia 617 works
  4. 4 Germany 582 works
  5. 5 Canada 528 works
  6. 6 China 443 works
  7. 7 Italy 328 works
  8. 8 Sweden 296 works
  9. 9 Netherlands 256 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 252 works
  11. 11 South Africa 245 works
  12. 12 France 242 works