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- National Capabilities
Global Research. National Benchmarks.
An open index using advanced bibliometrics to measure the research frontier of nations. Powered by the Global Institute for National Capability.
Global Research
The entire scholarly record, harmonised and deduplicated โ every paper and author mapped to nation, field and institution.
- 500M
- Papers
- 50M
- Authors
National Capability
Output, growth and authority distilled into comparable capability scores for every nation, across the full taxonomy of research fields.
- 288
- National Capabilities
- 11,585
- Research Fields
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National Research Impact
Every nation ranked by the scale, momentum and standing of its research output. Rank badges are coloured by World Bank region; each nation links through to its country profile. The figures are illustrative placeholders until the corpus is counted.
| Nation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 1102.7K | +65% | 94 |
| 2 | United States | 879.1K | +38% | 99 |
| 3 | India | 412.3K | +58% | 99 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 298.5K | +84% | 99 |
| 5 | Germany | 285.7K | +109% | 91 |
| 6 | Japan | 244.9K | +30% | 92 |
| 7 | Italy | 218.3K | +109% | 90 |
| 8 | France | 201.6K | +161% | 99 |
| 9 | Canada | 178.4K | +45% | 99 |
| 10 | South Korea | 172.9K | +145% | 99 |
| 11 | Australia | 165.2K | +113% | 97 |
| 12 | Spain | 159.0K | +155% | 89 |
| 13 | Brazil | 148.7K | +9% | 97 |
| 14 | Russia | 132.4K | +90% | 88 |
| 15 | Iran | 124.9K | +61% | 89 |
| 16 | Netherlands | 118.3K | +143% | 85 |
| 17 | Poland | 98.2K | +60% | 87 |
| 18 | Tรผrkiye | 96.6K | +42% | 93 |
| 19 | Indonesia | 92.1K | +40% | 86 |
| 20 | Switzerland | 89.7K | +99% | 89 |
| 21 | Sweden | 84.3K | +142% | 97 |
| 22 | Saudi Arabia | 79.2K | +140% | 94 |
| 23 | Belgium | 74.9K | +153% | 92 |
| 24 | Mexico | 71.6K | +105% | 83 |
| 25 | Egypt | 68.4K | +44% | 92 |
| 26 | Pakistan | 66.1K | +157% | 90 |
| 27 | Taiwan | 64.9K | +116% | 83 |
| 28 | Austria | 61.3K | +71% | 83 |
| 29 | South Africa | 58.7K | +160% | 91 |
| 30 | Denmark | 56.2K | +53% | 89 |
| 31 | Malaysia | 54.9K | +46% | 91 |
| 32 | Israel | 52.6K | +72% | 87 |
| 33 | Portugal | 50.4K | +119% | 78 |
| 34 | Norway | 48.1K | +169% | 88 |
| 35 | Czechia | 46.9K | +33% | 86 |
| 36 | Greece | 44.3K | +115% | 88 |
| 37 | Finland | 42.7K | +110% | 87 |
| 38 | Singapore | 41.2K | +142% | 84 |
| 39 | Ireland | 39.9K | +99% | 76 |
| 40 | Argentina | 38.6K | +177% | 83 |
| 41 | Thailand | 36.4K | +26% | 82 |
| 42 | Ukraine | 34.1K | +30% | 85 |
| 43 | Romania | 32.9K | +34% | 74 |
| 44 | New Zealand | 31.3K | +72% | 76 |
| 45 | Colombia | 29.7K | +169% | 83 |
| 46 | Vietnam | 28.2K | +120% | 73 |
| 47 | Hungary | 26.9K | +172% | 75 |
| 48 | Chile | 25.6K | +103% | 70 |
| 49 | Nigeria | 24.4K | +165% | 72 |
| 50 | Bangladesh | 23.1K | +83% | 74 |
| Nation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | Hong Kong | 22.4K | +62% | 78 |
| 52 | Slovakia | 21.2K | +25% | 71 |
| 53 | United Arab Emirates | 20.4K | +40% | 75 |
| 54 | Serbia | 19.6K | +104% | 69 |
| 55 | Iraq | 18.9K | +19% | 78 |
| 56 | Croatia | 18.2K | +67% | 71 |
| 57 | Bulgaria | 17.6K | +75% | 68 |
| 58 | Slovenia | 17.0K | +105% | 73 |
| 59 | Philippines | 16.4K | +156% | 68 |
| 60 | Algeria | 15.9K | +12% | 69 |
| 61 | Morocco | 15.4K | +46% | 67 |
| 62 | Jordan | 14.9K | +14% | 70 |
| 63 | Tunisia | 14.4K | +141% | 76 |
| 64 | Peru | 13.9K | +89% | 64 |
| 65 | Lithuania | 13.4K | +167% | 67 |
| 66 | Estonia | 12.9K | +56% | 75 |
| 67 | Kazakhstan | 12.4K | +154% | 73 |
| 68 | Ecuador | 11.9K | +163% | 61 |
| 69 | Sri Lanka | 11.4K | +16% | 74 |
| 70 | Ethiopia | 10.9K | +120% | 67 |
| 71 | Kenya | 10.4K | +39% | 71 |
| 72 | Belarus | 9.9K | +148% | 69 |
| 73 | Qatar | 9.5K | +53% | 69 |
| 74 | Latvia | 9.1K | +55% | 65 |
| 75 | Cuba | 8.8K | +34% | 59 |
| 76 | Nepal | 8.5K | +155% | 70 |
| 77 | Azerbaijan | 8.2K | +25% | 59 |
| 78 | Lebanon | 7.9K | +33% | 57 |
| 79 | Uruguay | 7.6K | +65% | 58 |
| 80 | Cyprus | 7.3K | +96% | 69 |
| 81 | Ghana | 7.0K | +121% | 58 |
| 82 | Costa Rica | 6.7K | +94% | 56 |
| 83 | Kuwait | 6.4K | +78% | 59 |
| 84 | Oman | 6.1K | +180% | 61 |
| 85 | Tanzania | 5.9K | +126% | 61 |
| 86 | Uganda | 5.7K | +140% | 60 |
| 87 | Iceland | 5.5K | +64% | 58 |
| 88 | Luxembourg | 5.3K | +85% | 64 |
| 89 | Venezuela | 5.1K | +16% | 65 |
| 90 | Uzbekistan | 4.9K | +92% | 55 |
| 91 | Georgia | 4.7K | +93% | 56 |
| 92 | Armenia | 4.5K | +63% | 50 |
| 93 | Bosnia & Herzegovina | 4.3K | +146% | 63 |
| 94 | North Macedonia | 4.1K | +158% | 49 |
| 95 | Cameroon | 4.0K | +144% | 55 |
| 96 | Panama | 3.8K | +39% | 54 |
| 97 | Bahrain | 3.6K | +119% | 54 |
| 98 | Paraguay | 3.5K | +153% | 52 |
| 99 | Bolivia | 3.4K | +75% | 49 |
| 100 | Zimbabwe | 3.2K | +112% | 60 |
| Nation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | Senegal | 3.1K | +30% | 48 |
| 102 | Malta | 3.0K | +169% | 52 |
| 103 | Guatemala | 2.8K | +158% | 55 |
| 104 | Palestine | 2.7K | +67% | 49 |
| 105 | Mongolia | 2.6K | +158% | 44 |
| 106 | Cambodia | 2.5K | +120% | 51 |
| 107 | Zambia | 2.4K | +131% | 51 |
| 108 | Yemen | 2.3K | +165% | 55 |
| 109 | Mozambique | 2.2K | +104% | 48 |
| 110 | Sudan | 2.1K | +164% | 43 |
| 111 | Cรดte d'Ivoire | 2.0K | +166% | 49 |
| 112 | Malawi | 1.9K | +32% | 45 |
| 113 | Albania | 1.8K | +157% | 54 |
| 114 | Moldova | 1.7K | +76% | 53 |
| 115 | Botswana | 1.6K | +144% | 41 |
| 116 | Myanmar | 1.5K | +75% | 46 |
| 117 | Angola | 1.4K | +50% | 46 |
| 118 | Rwanda | 1.3K | +175% | 45 |
| 119 | Libya | 1.3K | +105% | 40 |
| 120 | Syria | 1.2K | +10% | 39 |
| 121 | Mauritius | 1.1K | +115% | 49 |
| 122 | Namibia | 1.1K | +87% | 45 |
| 123 | Afghanistan | 985 | +98% | 41 |
| 124 | Honduras | 920 | +138% | 40 |
| 125 | El Salvador | 860 | +156% | 48 |
| 126 | Nicaragua | 800 | +105% | 37 |
| 127 | Benin | 745 | +16% | 42 |
| 128 | Madagascar | 690 | +38% | 34 |
| 129 | Kyrgyzstan | 640 | +137% | 42 |
| 130 | Burkina Faso | 590 | +36% | 46 |
| 131 | Tajikistan | 540 | +63% | 32 |
| 132 | Mali | 495 | +66% | 40 |
| 133 | Niger | 450 | +60% | 33 |
| 134 | Chad | 410 | +87% | 45 |
| 135 | Gabon | 372 | +67% | 39 |
| 136 | Jamaica | 336 | +18% | 35 |
| 137 | Papua New Guinea | 302 | +143% | 39 |
| 138 | Fiji | 270 | +181% | 32 |
| 139 | Montenegro | 240 | +21% | 42 |
| 140 | Bhutan | 212 | +23% | 38 |
| 141 | Maldives | 186 | +65% | 30 |
| 142 | Gambia | 162 | +28% | 32 |
| 143 | Sierra Leone | 140 | +84% | 38 |
| 144 | Laos | 120 | +17% | 30 |
| 145 | Togo | 102 | +151% | 34 |
| 146 | Eswatini | 86 | +176% | 28 |
| 147 | Lesotho | 72 | +41% | 33 |
| 148 | Guyana | 60 | +74% | 35 |
| 149 | Barbados | 50 | +66% | 32 |
| 150 | Suriname | 42 | +48% | 33 |
L5Y is papers in the last five years, 5Y% its five-year growth and Auth a citation-weighted standing score. Select a column to sort by it, and again to turn the order round. 150 of the 197 nations of the framework are ranked.