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Top Countries in Research and Theory Research

United States ranks first in 2022-now, followed by China and United Kingdom, out of 6 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 5.8% 1.3k 6.8k#1
2China 61.3 21.5% 508 5k#2
3United Kingdom 38.7 9.7% 336 2.3k#3
4Australia 22.6 10.4% 344 2.7k#4
5Iran 10.2 12.0% 238 1.9k#7
6Türkiye 0.0 6.4% 231 1.1k#8

countries ranked worldwide in Research and Theory (6). 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).

Ranked by volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.8k works
  2. 2 China 681 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 440 works
  4. 4 Australia 417 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 317 works
  6. 6 Iran 282 works
  7. 7 Canada 249 works
  8. 8 Saudi Arabia 164 works
  9. 9 South Korea 150 works
  10. 10 Sweden 144 works
  11. 11 Spain 144 works
  12. 12 South Africa 143 works