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Top Countries in Social Psychology Research

United States ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 76 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 20.5% 38k 188k#1
2China 84.0 28.7% 16k 99k#4
3United Kingdom 74.6 25.4% 9.4k 60k#2
4Germany 68.0 21.2% 9.1k 41k#3
5Australia 62.8 30.8% 4.8k 35k#6
6Canada 58.6 22.9% 5.3k 28k#5
7Italy 55.1 27.6% 4k 25k#8
8India 52.0 12.6% 7.8k 20k#13
9Netherlands 49.3 31.9% 2.6k 19k#7
10Spain 46.8 20.9% 5.1k 23k#9
11Türkiye 44.6 10.9% 11k 18k#16
12South Korea 42.6 24.0% 2.4k 13k#20
13Iran 40.8 14.3% 2.6k 9.7k#30
14France 39.1 16.9% 3.4k 13k#10
15Hong Kong 37.5 35.1% 1.1k 9.4k#19
16Malaysia 36.0 14.7% 2.4k 7.8k#31
17Japan 34.6 11.1% 4.7k 13k#14
18Switzerland 33.3 24.2% 1.6k 8.8k#11
19Sweden 32.0 27.7% 1.6k 9.2k#12
20Norway 30.8 22.4% 1.6k 7.9k#18
21Poland 29.7 15.4% 2.4k 7.7k#27
22Finland 28.6 28.8% 1k 6.3k#21
23Portugal 27.6 24.9% 1.5k 7.6k#29
24South Africa 26.6 22.4% 1.4k 7k#25
25Taiwan 25.7 23.8% 1.2k 7k#32
26Saudi Arabia 24.8 27.4% 878 5.6k#36
27Greece 23.9 27.4% 813 4.3k#35
28Israel 23.1 25.2% 1.3k 6.9k#15
29Brazil 22.2 8.5% 4.7k 9.8k#24
30Denmark 21.5 14.0% 1.8k 5.5k#23
31Austria 20.7 21.4% 1.2k 5.3k#26
32Singapore 20.0 34.3% 600 4.8k#28
33Indonesia 19.3 6.4% 5.3k 6.2k#38
34Belgium 18.6 24.9% 1k 5.7k#17
35Ireland 17.9 24.7% 692 4k#33
36?? 17.3 14.1% 1.5k 5.1k#34
37New Zealand 16.6 25.4% 785 7k#22
38Pakistan 16.0 9.0% 2.1k 4.9k#40
39Romania 15.4 16.9% 874 3k#44
40Mexico 14.8 7.6% 2.4k 4.2k#39
41Macau 14.3 37.8% 263 1.8k#47
42Thailand 13.7 16.3% 843 3.1k#48
43Bangladesh 13.2 21.4% 534 2.2k#51
44Egypt 12.6 13.7% 698 2.3k#52
45Philippines 12.1 8.7% 1.1k 2.3k#49
46Chile 11.6 15.2% 1.2k 3.3k#43
47United Arab Emirates 11.1 23.2% 417 2.3k#46
48Czechia 10.6 18.0% 674 2.6k#41
49Hungary 10.1 16.2% 844 2.6k#42
50Russia 9.7 6.9% 2.1k 3.3k#37
51Peru 9.2 8.9% 1.2k 2.4k#56
52Nigeria 8.8 9.0% 1.1k 2.1k#55
53Jordan 8.3 20.2% 357 1.4k#61
54Colombia 7.9 8.3% 1.3k 2.3k#50
55Ecuador 7.5 7.6% 1.3k 1.8k#60
56Vietnam 7.1 18.6% 466 1.8k#59
57Argentina 6.6 6.1% 1.2k 1.6k#45
58Ethiopia 6.2 27.8% 260 1.6k#64
59Ghana 5.8 19.9% 330 1.3k#65
60Lithuania 5.5 18.8% 291 1.1k#66
61Cyprus 5.1 23.1% 224 1.1k#53
62Slovenia 4.7 19.2% 337 1.1k#57
63Croatia 4.3 13.3% 430 1.2k#58
64Ukraine 4.0 6.2% 755 759#69
65Kenya 3.6 13.3% 343 914#54
66Estonia 3.3 16.7% 210 787#63
67Serbia 2.9 13.9% 364 1k#67
68Kazakhstan 2.6 13.2% 317 624#75
69Slovakia 2.2 16.0% 305 970#62
70Iraq 1.9 4.8% 688 614#71
71Nepal 1.6 10.0% 299 785#77
72Morocco 124.8 13.2% 240 570#73
73Tunisia 93.0 15.0% 212 660#81
74Sri Lanka 61.6 10.7% 233 595#76
75Bulgaria 30.6 10.7% 225 438#78
76Uzbekistan 0.0 6.9% 209 198#83

countries ranked worldwide in Social Psychology (76). 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: 15 places5 – 10: 12 places10 – 15: 10 places15 – 20: 8 places20 – 25: 6 places25 – 30: 5 places30 – 35: 4 places35 – 40: 3 places40 – 45: 3 places45 – 50: 2 places50 – 55: 1 places55 – 60: 2 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 38k works
  2. 2 China 16k works
  3. 3 Türkiye 11k works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 9.4k works
  5. 5 Germany 9.1k works
  6. 6 India 7.8k works
  7. 7 Canada 5.3k works
  8. 8 Indonesia 5.3k works
  9. 9 Spain 5.1k works
  10. 10 Australia 4.8k works
  11. 11 Brazil 4.7k works
  12. 12 Japan 4.7k works