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Albania vs Cyprus

On research quality in 2022-now, Cyprus ranks #48 in the world and Albania #134, of 189 countries. Albania stands higher in 0 of the 19 fields both publish in, Cyprus in 19.

Research profiles alike: 0.72very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured

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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.

Cyprus

World rank, 2022-now
#48
#46 all time
Works, 2022-now
17k
fractional
Top-10% rate
13.6%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
51%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Space and Planetary Science, General Energy, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Cyprus 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 Cyprus
  1. #134Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#48
  2. 0.48×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected1.09×
  3. 6.1kOutputfractional works, 2022-now17k
  4. 5.7%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited13.6%
  5. 4.9Citations per workall time, per fractional work17.5
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 75%Open accessof its works free to read, all time51%
  8. 25%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time38%
  9. +64%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+31%

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 0 of 19 fields, Cyprus in 19. Cyprus leads most in Computer Science (#42 against #114). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Albania 019 Cyprus
  1. #108Agricultural and Biological Sciences#66
  2. #84Arts and Humanities#45
  3. -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#56
  4. #98Business, Management and Accounting#41
  5. #114Computer Science#42
  6. -Decision Sciences#42
  7. -Earth and Planetary Sciences#40
  8. #86Economics, Econometrics and Finance#44
  9. -Energy#40
  10. #94Engineering#46
  11. #100Environmental Science#45
  12. #89Health Professions#58
  13. -Materials Science#63
  14. -Mathematics#43
  15. #140Medicine#60
  16. -Neuroscience#43
  17. -Physics and Astronomy#38
  18. #96Psychology#44
  19. #105Social Sciences#50

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 rankCyprus rank Albania top 10%Cyprus top 10% Albania worksCyprus works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #108 #66 7.9% 14.4% 230 463
Arts and Humanities #84 #45 6.0% 14.8% 339 717
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - #56 - 11.2% - 554
Business, Management and Accounting #98 #41 6.0% 20.5% 379 905
Computer Science #114 #42 5.5% 12.6% 428 1.6k
Decision Sciences - #42 - 15.4% - 237
Earth and Planetary Sciences - #40 - 11.8% - 229
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #86 #44 6.4% 17.0% 402 687
Energy - #40 - 15.7% - 267
Engineering #94 #46 4.0% 12.1% 413 2.2k
Environmental Science #100 #45 4.6% 13.2% 342 853
Health Professions #89 #58 7.0% 14.1% 206 446
Materials Science - #63 - 10.4% - 241
Mathematics - #43 - 18.1% - 328
Medicine #140 #60 3.8% 12.1% 1.1k 2.3k
Neuroscience - #43 - 11.2% - 226
Physics and Astronomy - #38 - 14.8% - 461
Psychology #96 #44 3.9% 11.8% 232 830
Social Sciences #105 #50 7.1% 13.8% 1.4k 2.7k

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

Cyprus

▲ 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. Machine Learning902▲ 1.40×96 topics
  2. Deep Learning705◆ 1.05×85 topics
  3. Renewable Energy665▲ 2.4×53 topics
  4. Sustainability663▲ 1.40×115 topics
  5. Epidemiology595▼ 0.77×136 topics
  6. Climate Change563◆ 1.07×114 topics
  7. Globalization443▲ 1.16×140 topics
  8. Environmental Impact435▲ 1.31×63 topics
  9. Artificial Intelligence426▲ 1.54×61 topics
  10. Education419▲ 1.26×123 topics
  11. Economic Growth404▲ 2.5×34 topics
  12. Social Media370▲ 1.38×39 topics
  13. Mental Health364▲ 1.31×47 topics
  14. Healthcare353▲ 1.59×39 topics
  15. Energy Efficiency333▲ 1.86×42 topics
  16. Big Data309▲ 1.66×34 topics
  17. Supply Chain Management309▲ 1.77×24 topics
  18. COVID-19305▲ 1.21×32 topics
  19. Internet of Things294▲ 1.76×29 topics
  20. Educational Technology287▲ 1.25×46 topics
  21. Urbanization253▲ 3.2×14 topics
  22. Cultural Heritage243▲ 2.4×32 topics
  23. Consumer Behavior231▲ 1.91×19 topics
  24. Security227▲ 1.74×28 topics
  25. Energy Consumption208▲ 4.7×7 topics
  26. Panel Data Analysis195▲ 6.5×3 topics
  27. Financial Development194▲ 6.7×3 topics
  28. CO2 Emissions178▲ 5.1×4 topics
  29. Environmental Regulation171▲ 5.9×5 topics
  30. Kuznets Curve164▲ 7.8×1 topic
  31. Trade Openness164▲ 7.8×1 topic
  32. Monetary Policy155▲ 3.4×12 topics
  33. Smart Cities150▲ 2.9×8 topics
  34. European Union140▲ 3.2×24 topics
  35. Nonlinear Equations127▲ 5.1×6 topics
  36. Peacebuilding126▲ 9.5×6 topics
  37. Identity Construction115▲ 11×5 topics
  38. Mediation98▲ 21×4 topics
  39. Cyprus Conflict92▲ 132×1 topic
  40. National Identities92▲ 132×1 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?

Cyprus has out-published Albania every year since 1980.

still counting2k4k6kCyprus4,770 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 counting0.050%0.10%Cyprus0.081% 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%Cyprus14.1% 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 Cyprus
  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 Cyprus?

Cyprus publishes 2.7× as much research as Albania in 2022-now (17k against 6.1k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Albania or Cyprus?

13.6% of Cyprus's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.7% for Albania.

Is Albania or Cyprus growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +64% against 2018-21 for Albania, and +31% for Cyprus.

Which has more open access research, Albania or Cyprus?

75% of Albania's research is free to read, against 51% of Cyprus's.

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

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

Cyprus

  1. 1University of Cyprus11.9% top 10% · 2.9k works
  2. 2University of Nicosia17.3% top 10% · 1.4k works
  3. 3Eastern Mediterranean University16.4% top 10% · 1.3k works
  4. 4Cyprus University of Technology14.3% top 10% · 1.2k works
  5. 5Cyprus International University18.4% top 10% · 1.1k works
  6. 6European University Cyprus16.6% top 10% · 835 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

Cyprus

  1. 1 Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo #191 worldwide 23k citations · 354 works
  2. 2 Zahoor Ahmed #1,212 worldwide 14k citations · 154 works
  3. 3 Ali Övgün #2,778 worldwide 10k citations · 396 works
  4. 4 Osman M. Karatepe #3,538 worldwide 18k citations · 275 works
  5. 5 Michalinos Zembylas #7,077 worldwide 21k citations · 635 works