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4. United Kingdom

Britain landed on the fourth spot with more than 2.3 million published documents and over 44 million citations. The United Kingdom has produced 6,551 patents and awarded over 8,000 PhDs. The home of the Royal Family also ranks eighth in the top countries for space sciences with more than 15,000 space-related papers.

The country is known to have laid the foundation of modern science. Robert Grosseteste, a student of Roger Bacon, developed a new philosophy arguing that geometry is the key to understanding the mysteries of nature long before Galileo released his Copernican system.

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