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Top Countries in Urban Studies Research

China ranks first in 2022-now, followed by United Kingdom and United States, out of 41 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
1China 100.0 14.1% 5.1k 18k#4
2United Kingdom 81.3 16.5% 2.3k 8.1k#3
3United States 70.4 10.6% 3.9k 8k#1
4France 62.7 8.3% 5.8k 2.4k#2
5Germany 56.7 10.9% 1.1k 2.6k#7
6Spain 51.8 11.7% 1.6k 2.1k#6
7Canada 47.6 17.2% 1.5k 2.5k#5
8Netherlands 44.0 21.3% 521 2.1k#10
9Australia 40.8 15.8% 878 3.1k#8
10Switzerland 38.0 17.3% 349 769#11
11Brazil 35.4 9.0% 12k 4.5k#9
12Sweden 33.1 18.3% 293 1.2k#14
13Italy 30.9 10.8% 1.1k 2.5k#16
14Belgium 28.9 11.6% 423 602#12
15Poland 27.1 7.9% 1.7k 1.9k#13
16Finland 25.3 16.5% 222 714#25
17Portugal 23.7 10.3% 831 1k#15
18Denmark 22.2 12.0% 290 672#19
19Japan 20.7 8.6% 572 1.2k#32
20South Korea 19.3 15.5% 277 892#24
21South Africa 18.0 11.5% 626 1.7k#21
22Argentina 16.8 7.3% 834 478#26
23Chile 15.6 14.2% 473 516#18
24India 14.4 8.1% 1.4k 2.9k#28
25Czechia 13.3 8.8% 240 389#27
26Hungary 12.3 8.6% 278 430#36
27Türkiye 11.2 9.1% 2.6k 2.7k#35
28Peru 10.3 10.0% 278 195#33
29Ghana 9.3 18.0% 251 1.1k#41
30Mexico 8.4 7.1% 985 563#34
31Colombia 7.5 10.8% 451 438#37
32Ecuador 6.7 14.0% 268 196#38
33Romania 5.8 9.6% 306 534#50
34Ukraine 5.0 4.8% 402 290#54
35Russia 4.3 2.8% 837 532#44
36Malaysia 3.5 6.2% 474 842#49
37Iran 2.8 10.1% 244 705#57
38Nigeria 2.0 4.9% 866 1.2k#55
39Morocco 134.7 10.5% 249 154#58
40Indonesia 66.5 4.5% 1k 1.1k#56
41Egypt 0.0 6.3% 254 454#61

countries ranked worldwide in Urban Studies (41). 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).

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 to 5: 7 places5 to 10: 6 places10 to 15: 5 places15 to 20: 4 places20 to 25: 3 places25 to 30: 3 places30 to 35: 2 places35 to 40: 2 places40 to 45: 2 places45 to 50: 1 places50 to 55: 1 places55 to 60: 1 places60 to 65: 1 places65 to 70: 0 places70 to 75: 1 places75 to 80: 0 places80 to 85: 1 places85 to 90: 0 places90 to 95: 0 places95 to 100: 1 places0100

One bar per band of score, counting the rows on this page.

Ranked by volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 13k works
  2. 2 France 6.1k works
  3. 3 China 5.7k works
  4. 4 United States 4.5k works
  5. 5 Türkiye 3k works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 2.6k works
  7. 7 Poland 1.8k works
  8. 8 Spain 1.8k works
  9. 9 India 1.6k works
  10. 10 Canada 1.6k works
  11. 11 Italy 1.3k works
  12. 12 Germany 1.2k works