Most science today is published in countries with low ratings for democracy and freedom of the press.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.03.663115v1
"In 2024, countries characterized as full democracies produced only 22% of the Scopus-indexed publications, versus 66% in 2006…78% of publications in 2024 came from countries with problematic (including USA) or worse (including China) freedom of press."
The authors took the democracy ratings from Democracy Index…
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-eiu
…and the freedom of the press ratings from Reporters Without Borders.
https://rsf.org/en/rsf-world-press-freedom-index-2025-economic-fragility-leading-threat-press-freedom