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Albania vs Cameroon

On research quality in 2022-now, Cameroon ranks #133 in the world and Albania #134, of 189 countries. Albania stands higher in 8 of the 17 fields both publish in, Cameroon in 9.

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Albania

World rank, 2022-now
#134
#167 all time
Works, 2022-now
6.1k
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.7%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
75%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: General Energy, Space and Planetary Science, Cultural Studies.

Cameroon

World rank, 2022-now
#133
#103 all time
Works, 2022-now
14k
fractional
Top-10% rate
6.3%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
65%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Horticulture, Forestry, Medical Terminology.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Cameroon leads on 6 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, citations per work and international co-authorship. Albania leads on 2 of 9 measures: open access and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Albania 21 level6 Cameroon
  1. #134Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#133
  2. 0.48×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.64×
  3. 6.1kOutputfractional works, 2022-now14k
  4. 5.7%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.3%
  5. 4.9Citations per workall time, per fractional work12.2
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 75%Open accessof its works free to read, all time65%
  8. 25%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time34%
  9. +64%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+29%

A rank is drawn as its standing: the longer the bar, the nearer the top. Anything else is drawn against the larger of the two, and two values a hair apart are called level. Quality, excellence and the top-10% rate are explained in the methodology.

Who leads in each field?

Albania stands higher in 8 of 17 fields, Cameroon in 9. Cameroon leads most in Medicine (#107 against #140); Albania leads most in Social Sciences (#105 against #138). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Albania 89 Cameroon
  1. #108Agricultural and Biological Sciences#101
  2. #84Arts and Humanities#102
  3. -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#77
  4. #98Business, Management and Accounting#104
  5. #114Computer Science#120
  6. -Earth and Planetary Sciences#74
  7. #86Economics, Econometrics and Finance#83
  8. #94Engineering#115
  9. #100Environmental Science#107
  10. #89Health Professions#99
  11. -Immunology and Microbiology#63
  12. -Materials Science#85
  13. -Mathematics#79
  14. #140Medicine#107
  15. -Physics and Astronomy#73
  16. #96Psychology#102
  17. #105Social Sciences#138

Standing is the percentile of world rank within each field, 2022-now; the printed number is the rank itself. A dash means the field is too small there to rank. How sides are compared.

The numbers behind each field

Click a heading to sort. The side that does better in a pair of columns is shaded: a lower rank, a higher rate, more works.

Field Albania rankCameroon rank Albania top 10%Cameroon top 10% Albania worksCameroon works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #108 #101 7.9% 5.8% 230 2k
Arts and Humanities #84 #102 6.0% 5.5% 339 323
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - #77 - 5.0% - 520
Business, Management and Accounting #98 #104 6.0% 4.8% 379 420
Computer Science #114 #120 5.5% 7.7% 428 807
Earth and Planetary Sciences - #74 - 5.9% - 381
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #86 #83 6.4% 9.7% 402 686
Engineering #94 #115 4.0% 7.1% 413 1.3k
Environmental Science #100 #107 4.6% 6.2% 342 962
Health Professions #89 #99 7.0% 10.2% 206 389
Immunology and Microbiology - #63 - 5.0% - 202
Materials Science - #85 - 5.0% - 271
Mathematics - #79 - 4.8% - 202
Medicine #140 #107 3.8% 4.8% 1.1k 2.5k
Physics and Astronomy - #73 - 5.8% - 408
Psychology #96 #102 3.9% 4.9% 232 237
Social Sciences #105 #138 7.1% 7.7% 1.4k 1.7k

What is each known for?

The keywords that describe each side's research, by fractional works in 2022-now and weighted toward what it does more of than the world.

Albania

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization357▲ 2.5×125 topics
  2. Epidemiology302◆ 1.05×130 topics
  3. Sustainable Development292▲ 2.6×90 topics
  4. Sustainability290▲ 1.65×103 topics
  5. Human Rights262▲ 3.5×72 topics
  6. Machine Learning245◆ 1.02×87 topics
  7. Economic Growth231▲ 3.9×33 topics
  8. Climate Change228▲ 1.17×108 topics
  9. Identity211▲ 4.0×52 topics
  10. Nationalism194▲ 6.0×26 topics
  11. Religion172▲ 5.2×30 topics
  12. Artificial Intelligence168▲ 1.64×51 topics
  13. Balkans165▲ 99×2 topics
  14. Ethnicity165▲ 6.1×19 topics
  15. Education158▲ 1.28×97 topics
  16. Conflict158▲ 14×11 topics
  17. Mental Health152▲ 1.48×42 topics
  18. Memory152▲ 8.6×15 topics
  19. Renewable Energy151▲ 1.45×47 topics
  20. Innovation139▲ 1.86×65 topics
  21. Eastern Europe138▲ 37×2 topics
  22. Post-war136▲ 162×1 topic
  23. Yugoslavia136▲ 162×1 topic
  24. European Union126▲ 7.8×23 topics
  25. Economic Development120▲ 2.1×42 topics
  26. Governance117▲ 5.0×12 topics
  27. Democracy106▲ 4.2×19 topics
  28. Global Governance98▲ 5.7×22 topics
  29. International Law96▲ 4.2×24 topics
  30. Social Capital96▲ 2.6×18 topics
  31. Environmental Management90▲ 3.1×16 topics
  32. Regional Development89▲ 3.6×16 topics
  33. Labor Market80▲ 3.9×16 topics
  34. Judicial Review78▲ 13×3 topics
  35. Fiscal Policy76▲ 5.2×9 topics
  36. Constitutionalism67▲ 11×2 topics
  37. ECHR67▲ 27×1 topic
  38. European Legal Systems67▲ 27×1 topic
  39. Geopolitics64▲ 5.8×10 topics
  40. Knowledge Economy62▲ 8.0×9 topics

Cameroon

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology981▲ 1.49×138 topics
  2. Climate Change918▲ 2.0×105 topics
  3. Sustainability787▲ 1.94×96 topics
  4. Smallholder Farmers612▲ 17×6 topics
  5. Environmental Impact485▲ 1.72×59 topics
  6. Renewable Energy466▲ 1.94×49 topics
  7. Globalization465▲ 1.43×120 topics
  8. Adaptation455▲ 9.2×15 topics
  9. Diversity382▲ 13×10 topics
  10. Antioxidant375▲ 3.3×50 topics
  11. Economic Growth374▲ 2.8×30 topics
  12. Agroecology373▲ 16×5 topics
  13. Agricultural Development364▲ 14×6 topics
  14. Livestock Farming363▲ 37×3 topics
  15. Governance362▲ 6.7×16 topics
  16. Multifunctionality360▲ 47×2 topics
  17. Economic Development360▲ 2.7×38 topics
  18. Work Organization359▲ 56×1 topic
  19. Biodiversity Conservation347▲ 5.6×16 topics
  20. Medicinal Plants332▲ 5.2×19 topics
  21. Sustainable Agriculture284▲ 5.5×15 topics
  22. Genetic Diversity271▲ 3.8×21 topics
  23. Global Burden267▲ 3.0×12 topics
  24. Agroforestry257▲ 23×4 topics
  25. Inequality252▲ 6.7×15 topics
  26. Institutional Quality250▲ 14×3 topics
  27. Nutritional Value239▲ 13×5 topics
  28. ICT238▲ 11×5 topics
  29. Climate Resilience227▲ 23×3 topics
  30. Anti-inflammatory222▲ 4.7×29 topics
  31. Knowledge Economy218▲ 12×9 topics
  32. Poverty Reduction209▲ 9.7×5 topics
  33. Inclusive Development207▲ 29×2 topics
  34. Mobile Phones206▲ 27×1 topic
  35. financial access206▲ 31×1 topic
  36. Vaccine Development201▲ 4.7×11 topics
  37. Flavonoids193▲ 4.6×12 topics
  38. Rural Livelihoods191▲ 21×3 topics
  39. Indigenous Fruits190▲ 50×1 topic
  40. Tree Domestication190▲ 50×1 topic

Size is fractional works in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of the side's work against its share of the world's. Each word links to the topic it comes from most.

How has their output grown?

Cameroon has out-published Albania every year since 1980.

still counting2k4kCameroon3,634 in 2025Albania1,907 in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works per year.

Their share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share, because all of science grows. Each line is a side as a percentage of every work published that year.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Cameroon0.062% in 2025Albania0.032% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

The share of each side's works, year by year, that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. The average of all institutions is 10.0% (why not 10%).

still counting5%10%15%Cameroon6.5% in 2025Albania5.8% in 2025200020102020

A year with under 1% of the side's peak output is left out: a rate over a handful of papers says nothing. The latest years are still being cited.

Who holds more of the world's best institutions?

A country's average quality and the number of institutions it holds at the very top can disagree, and both are worth knowing. The counts are nested: an institution in the top 50 is also in the top 100.

Albania 05 level0 Cameroon
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 0In the top 5000
  4. 0In the top 1,0000
  5. #51Elite capacityrank among 204 countries#51

Institutions ranked on research quality, 2022-now. Elite capacity counts a country's institutions by their worldwide rank, weighted so a place at #1 counts for more than one at #480.

Which publishes more research, Albania or Cameroon?

Cameroon publishes 2.3× as much research as Albania in 2022-now (14k against 6.1k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Albania or Cameroon?

6.3% of Cameroon's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.7% for Albania.

Is Albania or Cameroon growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +64% against 2018-21 for Albania, and +29% for Cameroon.

Which has more open access research, Albania or Cameroon?

75% of Albania's research is free to read, against 65% of Cameroon's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Albania or Cameroon?

Albania holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Cameroon 0; in the top 1,000 it is 0 against 0.

Which institutions lead in each country?

The highest-ranked institutions on each side on research quality, 2022-now. The percentage is each institution's own top-10% rate: the share of its works that are among the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. Every figure stands alone, so they do not add up to 100%.

Albania

  1. 1University of Tirana5.0% top 10% · 907 works
  2. 2Aleksandër Moisiu University8.3% top 10% · 693 works
  3. 3University of Arts7.6% top 10% · 253 works
  4. 4Polytechnic University of Tirana4.7% top 10% · 471 works
  5. 5Albanian University6.0% top 10% · 280 works
  6. 6University of Elbasan7.1% top 10% · 182 works

Cameroon

  1. 1University of Ngaoundéré4.4% top 10% · 870 works
  2. 2University of Douala5.5% top 10% · 1.6k works
  3. 3Université de Dschang8.3% top 10% · 2.1k works
  4. 4University of Bamenda6.4% top 10% · 1.2k works
  5. 5University of Buea6.2% top 10% · 1.5k works
  6. 6Université de Yaoundé I5.2% top 10% · 3k works

The number is the rank inside the country. The track on each row is the top-10% rate; the tick is the average of all institutions, 10.0% (how it is set): teal above it, red below. The ranking is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each institution's own topics predict and adds a small reward for size, so the rates do not fall in order.

Who are the top researchers on each side?

The most cited researchers on each side, among those ranked.

Albania

  1. 1 Enkeleint Aggelos Mechili #183,280 worldwide 15k citations · 108 works
  2. 2 Iris Hoxha #190,137 worldwide 2.9k citations · 34 works
  3. 3 Eglantina Hysa #227,622 worldwide 2k citations · 99 works
  4. 4 Naltin Shuka #367,228 worldwide 17k citations · 27 works
  5. 5 Skënder Topi #454,509 worldwide 2.3k citations · 68 works

Cameroon

  1. 1 Simplice Anutechia Asongu #20,207 worldwide 26k citations · 1,463 works
  2. 2 Magellan Tchouakui #44,816 worldwide 2.4k citations · 117 works
  3. 3 Jean Jacques Noubiap #50,405 worldwide 171k citations · 401 works
  4. 4 Vanessa Simen Tchamyou #65,850 worldwide 4.4k citations · 111 works
  5. 5 Duncan W. Thomas #75,030 worldwide 12k citations · 102 works