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Albania vs South Sudan

On research quality in 2022-now, Albania ranks #134 in the world and South Sudan #178, of 189 countries. Albania stands higher in 11 of the 11 fields both publish in, South Sudan 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.

South Sudan

World rank, 2022-now
#178
#154 all time
Works, 2022-now
2.8k
fractional
Top-10% rate
8.5%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
63%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Gender Studies, Architecture, Library and Information Sciences.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Albania leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, output, open access and growth. South Sudan 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 South Sudan
  1. #134Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#178
  2. 0.48×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.79×
  3. 6.1kOutputfractional works, 2022-now2.8k
  4. 5.7%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited8.5%
  5. 4.9Citations per workall time, per fractional work23.6
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 75%Open accessof its works free to read, all time63%
  8. 25%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time65%
  9. +64%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+16%

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, South Sudan in 0. Albania leads most in Social Sciences (#105 against #143). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Albania 110 South Sudan
  1. #108Agricultural and Biological Sciences-
  2. #84Arts and Humanities#98
  3. #98Business, Management and Accounting-
  4. #114Computer Science#118
  5. #86Economics, Econometrics and Finance-
  6. #94Engineering#114
  7. #100Environmental Science-
  8. #89Health Professions-
  9. #140Medicine#144
  10. #96Psychology-
  11. #105Social Sciences#143

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 rankSouth Sudan rank Albania top 10%South Sudan top 10% Albania worksSouth Sudan works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #108 - 7.9% - 230 -
Arts and Humanities #84 #98 6.0% 9.8% 339 217
Business, Management and Accounting #98 - 6.0% - 379 -
Computer Science #114 #118 5.5% 8.4% 428 220
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #86 - 6.4% - 402 -
Engineering #94 #114 4.0% 9.6% 413 290
Environmental Science #100 - 4.6% - 342 -
Health Professions #89 - 7.0% - 206 -
Medicine #140 #144 3.8% 8.7% 1.1k 314
Psychology #96 - 3.9% - 232 -
Social Sciences #105 #143 7.1% 7.7% 1.4k 651

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

South Sudan

▲ 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. Globalization159▲ 2.4×116 topics
  2. Human Rights122▲ 3.5×54 topics
  3. Education112▲ 1.93×95 topics
  4. Machine Learning110◆ 0.98×89 topics
  5. Deep Learning99▼ 0.85×74 topics
  6. Global Governance93▲ 11×19 topics
  7. Peacebuilding84▲ 36×6 topics
  8. Sustainable Development81▲ 1.53×65 topics
  9. Democracy79▲ 6.7×18 topics
  10. Neoliberalism70▲ 5.7×24 topics
  11. Economic Growth67▲ 2.4×29 topics
  12. History66▲ 2.8×47 topics
  13. Ethnic Conflict65▲ 41×4 topics
  14. Innovation64▲ 1.82×56 topics
  15. Authoritarianism57▲ 19×5 topics
  16. Economic Development56▲ 2.1×40 topics
  17. Transitional Justice55▲ 20×4 topics
  18. Social Justice55▲ 2.7×40 topics
  19. Identity54▲ 2.2×56 topics
  20. Civil War54▲ 51×2 topics
  21. Protest53▲ 41×3 topics
  22. Political Institutions53▲ 77×1 topic
  23. State Capacity53▲ 77×1 topic
  24. Colonialism51▲ 3.2×38 topics
  25. Gender Inequality51▲ 11×6 topics
  26. Culture47▲ 2.7×27 topics
  27. International Law46▲ 4.3×24 topics
  28. Religion45▲ 2.9×33 topics
  29. Nationalism44▲ 2.9×29 topics
  30. War Crimes44▲ 29×3 topics
  31. Gender-based Violence42▲ 21×3 topics
  32. Feminist Perspectives40▲ 43×3 topics
  33. Sexual Violence39▲ 15×2 topics
  34. Local Turn38▲ 74×1 topic
  35. Resilience Governance38▲ 74×1 topic
  36. Military Masculinity38▲ 81×1 topic
  37. UN Resolution 132538▲ 81×1 topic
  38. Poverty Reduction37▲ 8.4×6 topics
  39. Conflict32▲ 5.8×10 topics
  40. NGOs29▲ 9.1×4 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 South Sudan every year since 2010, when it overtook it.

still counting1k2kAlbania1,907 in 2025South Sudan726 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 2025South Sudan0.012% 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%South Sudan7.9% 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 South Sudan
  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 South Sudan?

Albania publishes 2.2× as much research as South Sudan in 2022-now (6.1k against 2.8k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Albania or South Sudan?

8.5% of South Sudan's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.7% for Albania.

Is Albania or South Sudan growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +64% against 2018-21 for Albania, and +16% for South Sudan.

Which has more open access research, Albania or South Sudan?

75% of Albania's research is free to read, against 63% of South Sudan's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Albania or South Sudan?

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

South Sudan

  1. 1University of Juba4.9% top 10% · 254 works
  2. 2Bridge University9.2% top 10% · 2.4k 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

South Sudan

  1. 1 Luka Biong Deng Kuol #1,484,511 worldwide 185 citations · 26 works
  2. 2 Lul Lojok Deng #1,685,030 worldwide 693 citations · 21 works
  3. 3 Denis Mubiru #2,538,397 worldwide 180 citations · 23 works
  4. 4 Nyagong Santino David Ladu #2,558,092 worldwide 212 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Justin Bruno Tongun #2,574,350 worldwide 366 citations · 26 works