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Top Countries in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging Research

United States ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 66 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 15.2% 40k 247k#1
2China 83.5 20.8% 32k 231k#3
3India 73.8 11.8% 16k 69k#10
4United Kingdom 66.9 17.6% 7.9k 55k#2
5Germany 61.6 17.5% 8.3k 57k#4
6Italy 57.2 20.6% 5.8k 41k#8
7Australia 53.6 21.9% 3.2k 27k#11
8Canada 50.4 18.0% 4.3k 32k#7
9France 47.6 14.9% 4.6k 27k#5
10South Korea 45.0 15.9% 4.7k 29k#13
11Japan 42.8 10.8% 7.7k 33k#9
12Netherlands 40.7 22.0% 2.8k 23k#6
13Saudi Arabia 38.8 20.3% 1.8k 15k#22
14Spain 37.0 14.1% 3.6k 18k#14
15Türkiye 35.4 9.0% 4.1k 15k#20
16Switzerland 33.8 20.2% 2.1k 16k#12
17Iran 32.4 14.2% 2.7k 15k#25
18?? 31.0 16.5% 1.6k 11k#21
19Pakistan 29.7 11.2% 1.6k 8.7k#33
20Egypt 28.5 9.1% 2.4k 8.9k#31
21Taiwan 27.3 16.8% 1.7k 12k#27
22Singapore 26.2 23.3% 870 7.7k#18
23Bangladesh 25.2 15.7% 859 5.3k#37
24Hong Kong 24.1 28.3% 638 7.3k#29
25Poland 23.2 14.7% 1.7k 9.1k#26
26Brazil 22.2 8.2% 3.1k 10k#24
27Denmark 21.3 18.2% 1.1k 7.7k#17
28Belgium 20.5 17.7% 1.1k 7.4k#16
29Sweden 19.6 18.0% 1.2k 8k#15
30Malaysia 18.8 12.0% 1k 5k#38
31Portugal 18.0 15.3% 986 5.5k#34
32Greece 17.3 17.2% 820 5.1k#35
33United Arab Emirates 16.5 22.1% 437 4.3k#45
34Russia 15.8 4.1% 4.1k 8.8k#28
35Austria 15.1 19.0% 908 5.6k#23
36Norway 14.5 20.7% 582 5.1k#30
37Romania 13.8 18.5% 647 4k#46
38Ireland 13.2 14.3% 599 3.2k#36
39South Africa 12.6 16.8% 504 3.4k#40
40Iraq 12.0 9.2% 1k 3.6k#47
41Thailand 11.4 13.4% 778 3.6k#44
42Mexico 10.8 8.5% 876 3.3k#42
43Israel 10.2 14.9% 812 4.6k#19
44Jordan 9.7 22.0% 306 3.9k#50
45Indonesia 9.1 3.4% 2.2k 3.8k#48
46Finland 8.6 18.8% 558 4.2k#32
47Nigeria 8.1 9.3% 600 2k#53
48Morocco 7.6 11.1% 540 1.8k#55
49Vietnam 7.1 11.5% 468 2.2k#52
50Czechia 6.6 12.1% 590 2.6k#39
51Ethiopia 6.2 22.2% 201 1.6k#56
52Hungary 5.7 12.9% 429 2.3k#43
53New Zealand 5.2 14.8% 338 2k#41
54Croatia 4.8 10.9% 265 1.1k#51
55Chile 4.4 13.1% 288 1.4k#62
56Tunisia 3.9 9.2% 334 1.3k#64
57Colombia 3.5 7.4% 396 1.1k#61
58Argentina 3.1 8.0% 382 1.1k#49
59Ukraine 2.7 3.6% 658 929#60
60Slovenia 2.3 17.2% 202 1.2k#57
61Algeria 1.9 10.5% 239 913#71
62Serbia 149.2 9.4% 267 953#59
63Nepal 111.0 5.9% 337 790#69
64Philippines 73.4 7.3% 252 708#67
65Bulgaria 36.4 6.8% 279 777#63
66Ecuador 0.0 5.6% 208 324

countries ranked worldwide in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (66). 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: 13 places5 – 10: 10 places10 – 15: 8 places15 – 20: 7 places20 – 25: 5 places25 – 30: 5 places30 – 35: 3 places35 – 40: 3 places40 – 45: 2 places45 – 50: 2 places50 – 55: 2 places55 – 60: 1 places60 – 65: 1 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 40k works
  2. 2 China 32k works
  3. 3 India 16k works
  4. 4 Germany 8.3k works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 7.9k works
  6. 6 Japan 7.7k works
  7. 7 Italy 5.8k works
  8. 8 South Korea 4.7k works
  9. 9 France 4.6k works
  10. 10 Canada 4.3k works
  11. 11 Türkiye 4.1k works
  12. 12 Russia 4.1k works