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Albania vs Cayman Islands

On research quality in 2022-now, Albania ranks #134 in the world and the Cayman Islands #160, of 189 countries. Albania stands higher in 11 of the 11 fields both publish in, the Cayman Islands in 0.

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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.

Cayman Islands

World rank, 2022-now
#160
#159 all time
Works, 2022-now
274
fractional
Top-10% rate
17.8%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
30%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Health Informatics.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Albania leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, output, open access and growth. The Cayman Islands leads on 4 of 9 measures: citation excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work and international co-authorship. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Albania 41 level4 Cayman Islands
  1. #134Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#160
  2. 0.48×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected1.08×
  3. 6.1kOutputfractional works, 2022-now274
  4. 5.7%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited17.8%
  5. 4.9Citations per workall time, per fractional work22.0
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 75%Open accessof its works free to read, all time30%
  8. 25%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time51%
  9. +64%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+46%

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, citation excellence and the top-10% rate are explained in the methodology.

Who leads in each field?

Albania stands higher in 11 of 11 fields, Cayman Islands in 0. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Albania 110 Cayman Islands
  1. #108Agricultural and Biological Sciences-
  2. #84Arts and Humanities-
  3. #98Business, Management and Accounting-
  4. #114Computer Science-
  5. #86Economics, Econometrics and Finance-
  6. #94Engineering-
  7. #100Environmental Science-
  8. #89Health Professions-
  9. #140Medicine-
  10. #96Psychology-
  11. #105Social Sciences-

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 rankCayman Islands rank Albania top 10%Cayman Islands top 10% Albania worksCayman Islands works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #108 - 7.9% - 230 -
Arts and Humanities #84 - 6.0% - 339 -
Business, Management and Accounting #98 - 6.0% - 379 -
Computer Science #114 - 5.5% - 428 -
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #86 - 6.4% - 402 -
Engineering #94 - 4.0% - 413 -
Environmental Science #100 - 4.6% - 342 -
Health Professions #89 - 7.0% - 206 -
Medicine #140 - 3.8% - 1.1k -
Psychology #96 - 3.9% - 232 -
Social Sciences #105 - 7.1% - 1.4k -

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

Cayman Islands

▲ 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. Deep Learning54▲ 5.0×52 topics
  2. Neural Networks38▲ 7.9×24 topics
  3. Machine Learning22▲ 2.1×42 topics
  4. Convolutional Neural Networks16▲ 7.0×11 topics
  5. Information Retrieval15▲ 21×3 topics
  6. Text Classification15▲ 29×3 topics
  7. Climate Change14▲ 1.66×32 topics
  8. Machine Translation13▲ 24×2 topics
  9. Topic Modeling13▲ 26×2 topics
  10. Semantic Similarity12▲ 32×1 topic
  11. Word Representation12▲ 32×1 topic
  12. Corpus Linguistics12▲ 18×2 topics
  13. Neural Machine Translation12▲ 41×1 topic
  14. Statistical Machine Translation12▲ 41×1 topic
  15. Unsupervised Learning10▲ 21×3 topics
  16. Globalization10▲ 1.62×15 topics
  17. Artificial Intelligence10▲ 2.1×14 topics
  18. Representation Learning9▲ 17×3 topics
  19. Convolutional Networks8▲ 20×3 topics
  20. Ocean Acidification7▲ 30×3 topics
  21. Big Data7▲ 2.4×10 topics
  22. Image Captioning7▲ 40×1 topic
  23. Visual Question Answering7▲ 24×1 topic
  24. Medical Imaging6▲ 3.8×7 topics
  25. Identity6▲ 2.8×6 topics
  26. Marine Ecosystems6▲ 35×2 topics
  27. Semi-Supervised Learning6▲ 15×3 topics
  28. Pose Estimation5▲ 14×2 topics
  29. Caribbean5▲ 85×2 topics
  30. Generative Adversarial Networks5▲ 18×2 topics
  31. Deep Neural Networks5▲ 12×3 topics
  32. Population Dynamics5▲ 5.9×7 topics
  33. Meta-Learning5▲ 17×2 topics
  34. Image Classification4▲ 7.5×2 topics
  35. Postcolonialism4▲ 9.9×2 topics
  36. Transfer Learning4▲ 7.1×3 topics
  37. Bleaching4▲ 41×1 topic
  38. Coral Reefs4▲ 41×1 topic
  39. Dancehall4▲ 178×1 topic
  40. Image Recognition4▲ 8.5×2 topics

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?

Albania has out-published the Cayman Islands every year since 1980.

still counting1k2kAlbania1,907 in 2025Cayman Islands99 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 counting0.020%0.040%Albania0.032% in 2025Cayman Islands0.0017% 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 counting10%20%30%Cayman Islands11.5% 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 Cayman Islands
  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 Cayman Islands?

Albania publishes 22.4× as much research as the Cayman Islands in 2022-now (6.1k against 274 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Albania or Cayman Islands?

17.8% of the Cayman Islands's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.7% for Albania.

Is Albania or Cayman Islands growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +64% against 2018-21 for Albania, and +46% for the Cayman Islands.

Which has more open access research, Albania or Cayman Islands?

75% of Albania's research is free to read, against 30% of the Cayman Islands's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Albania or Cayman Islands?

Albania holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and the Cayman Islands 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

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

Cayman Islands

  1. 1 Lidong Bing #48,864 worldwide 11k citations · 334 works
  2. 2 Zhongqiang Huang #820,022 worldwide 2.3k citations · 79 works
  3. 3 Boxing Chen #870,777 worldwide 2.1k citations · 193 works
  4. 4 Yew Ken Chia #1,085,768 worldwide 569 citations · 37 works
  5. 5 Mahani Aljunied #1,137,558 worldwide 108 citations · 17 works