Leading 50 science cities in physical sciences

The leading 50 science cities and metropolitan areas in physical sciences ranked by article Share (Share) in the subject in 2022. Also listed are each city’s article count (Count) in physical sciences in 2022, and its contritution to the location’s total subject Share of the year.

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Rank	City/metropolitan area	Location	Share 2022	Count 2022	Contribution to location's Share (%)
1	Beijing	China mainland	1,416.84	3,027	21.5%
2	Shanghai	China mainland	639.78	1,583	9.7%
3	New York MA	United States of America (USA)	481.24	1,352	11.0%
4	Boston MA	United States of America (USA)	438.51	1,156	10.0%
5	Nanjing	China mainland	432.49	1,027	6.6%
6	Seoul MA	South Korea	425.85	886	53.8%
7	San Francisco Bay Area	United States of America (USA)	420.88	1,200	9.6%
8	Tokyo MA	Japan	364.83	947	40.9%
9	Hefei	China mainland	356.40	908	5.4%
10	Paris MA	France	329.13	1,000	52.1%
11	Wuhan	China mainland	316.84	714	4.8%
12	Guangzhou	China mainland	307.29	777	4.7%
13	Xi’an	China mainland	265.45	551	4.0%
14	Chicago MA	United States of America (USA)	251.80	761	5.7%
15	Baltimore - Washington	United States of America (USA)	250.59	843	5.7%
16	Hong Kong	China mainland	246.01	664	3.7%
17	Singapore*	Singapore	245.93	564	100.0%
18	Los Angeles MA	United States of America (USA)	223.36	719	5.1%
19	Tianjin	China mainland	222.20	471	3.4%
20	Shenzhen	China mainland	221.64	668	3.4%
21	Hangzhou	China mainland	217.68	607	3.3%
22	Munich	Germany	215.31	597	14.4%
23	London MA	United Kingdom (UK)	212.81	682	23.6%
24	Zürich	Switzerland	186.06	509	41.9%
25	Changsha	China mainland	171.10	396	2.6%
26	Chengdu	China mainland	167.25	394	2.5%
27	Berlin MA	Germany	157.84	466	10.6%
28	Daejeon	South Korea	156.22	414	19.7%
29	Changchun	China mainland	154.65	339	2.3%
30	Suzhou	China mainland	149.28	404	2.3%
31	Cambridge	United Kingdom (UK)	149.10	434	16.5%
32	Moscow	Russia	121.76	470	48.5%
33	Barcelona MA	Spain	115.07	378	29.2%
34	Jinan	China mainland	114.83	330	1.7%
35	Oxford	United Kingdom (UK)	107.73	519	11.9%
36	Harbin	China mainland	107.19	215	1.6%
37	Tsukuba	Japan	104.51	490	11.7%
38	Dresden	Germany	102.23	324	6.9%
39	Philadelphia MA	United States of America (USA)	98.78	299	2.3%
40	Madrid	Spain	98.34	381	24.9%
41	Chongqing	China mainland	92.92	211	1.4%
42	Hamburg	Germany	91.47	358	6.1%
43	Genève	Switzerland	87.69	423	19.8%
44	Lausanne	Switzerland	85.75	283	19.3%
45	Kyoto	Japan	83.92	236	9.4%
46	Rome	Italy	83.48	449	15.5%
47	Heidelberg	Germany	81.91	306	5.5%
48	Austin	United States of America (USA)	80.58	238	1.8%
49	Grenoble	France	80.00	320	12.7%
50	Santa Barbara	United States of America (USA)	79.86	246	1.8%

Footnote

* Singapore is a city-state.