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Top Countries in Space and Planetary Science Research

United States ranks first in 2022-now, followed by United Kingdom and China, out of 5 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 9.4% 564 1.1k#1
2United Kingdom 56.9 11.5% 440 757#2
3China 31.7 25.9% 202 1.1k#3
4France 13.9 4.8% 203 264#5
5Italy 0.0 12.8% 411 1.3k#6

countries ranked worldwide in Space and Planetary Science (5). 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 621 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 475 works
  3. 3 Italy 452 works
  4. 4 China 240 works
  5. 5 France 215 works
  6. 6 Germany 203 works
  7. 7 Spain 173 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 172 works
  9. 9 Poland 159 works
  10. 10 Russia 148 works
  11. 11 India 112 works
  12. 12 Greece 103 works

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United States ranks first in 2022-now, followed by United Kingdom and China, out of 5 ranked countries.

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