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Angola vs El Salvador

On research quality in 2022-now, Angola ranks #111 in the world and El Salvador #114, of 189 countries. Angola stands higher in 1 of the 3 fields both publish in, El Salvador in 2.

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Angola

World rank, 2022-now
#111
#141 all time
Works, 2022-now
1.5k
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.3%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
77%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: General Energy, Information Systems and Management, Fuel Technology.

El Salvador

World rank, 2022-now
#114
#106 all time
Works, 2022-now
2.7k
fractional
Top-10% rate
4.1%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
82%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: General Social Sciences, Horticulture, Computer Science Applications.

Who leads, measure by measure?

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

Angola 61 level2 El Salvador
  1. #111Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#114
  2. 0.78×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.68×
  3. 1.5kOutputfractional works, 2022-now2.7k
  4. 5.3%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited4.1%
  5. 3.4Citations per workall time, per fractional work2.2
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 77%Open accessof its works free to read, all time82%
  8. 41%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time18%
  9. +37%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+32%

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?

Angola stands higher in 1 of 3 fields, El Salvador in 2. El Salvador leads most in Social Sciences (#90 against #118); Angola leads most in Medicine (#93 against #113). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Angola 12 El Salvador
  1. -Computer Science#103
  2. #93Medicine#113
  3. #118Social Sciences#90

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 Angola rankEl Salvador rank Angola top 10%El Salvador top 10% Angola worksEl Salvador works
Computer Science - #103 - 4.9% - 217
Medicine #93 #113 3.6% 4.4% 300 273
Social Sciences #118 #90 6.8% 3.9% 436 943

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.

Angola

▲ 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. Epidemiology138▲ 2.0×107 topics
  2. Public Health122▲ 4.9×50 topics
  3. Healthcare96▲ 5.0×21 topics
  4. Quality of Life86▲ 3.5×50 topics
  5. Educational Technology84▲ 4.2×28 topics
  6. Qualitative Research79▲ 5.5×16 topics
  7. Education75▲ 2.6×58 topics
  8. Globalization75▲ 2.2×74 topics
  9. Sustainability73▲ 1.76×64 topics
  10. Risk Factors64▲ 3.4×28 topics
  11. Public Policy62▲ 7.8×19 topics
  12. Teacher Training61▲ 5.9×17 topics
  13. Human Rights58▲ 3.3×39 topics
  14. Online Learning56▲ 4.0×15 topics
  15. Healthcare Access53▲ 11×10 topics
  16. Health Policy50▲ 19×5 topics
  17. Knowledge Management43▲ 4.6×14 topics
  18. Social Determinants42▲ 12×7 topics
  19. Research Methods41▲ 15×4 topics
  20. Data Analysis39▲ 8.9×4 topics
  21. Innovation Management39▲ 15×3 topics
  22. Marketing Strategies39▲ 25×2 topics
  23. Prevalence39▲ 5.6×12 topics
  24. Quantitative Research39▲ 18×2 topics
  25. Case Study38▲ 36×1 topic
  26. Organizational Management38▲ 38×1 topic
  27. Inclusion37▲ 15×6 topics
  28. Research37▲ 18×5 topics
  29. Training36▲ 10×6 topics
  30. Social Inequality36▲ 7.9×13 topics
  31. Digital Innovation36▲ 37×2 topics
  32. Educational Policy36▲ 8.4×3 topics
  33. Drug Resistance35▲ 7.2×8 topics
  34. Research Networks35▲ 52×1 topic
  35. Smart Library35▲ 52×1 topic
  36. Distance Education35▲ 11×2 topics
  37. Legal Theory35▲ 30×3 topics
  38. Legislation35▲ 13×3 topics
  39. Digital Business34▲ 39×1 topic
  40. Legal Philosophy32▲ 31×2 topics

El Salvador

▲ 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. Education344▲ 6.7×78 topics
  2. Globalization222▲ 3.8×97 topics
  3. Latin America187▲ 33×21 topics
  4. Sustainability186▲ 2.5×84 topics
  5. Public Health184▲ 4.2×56 topics
  6. Innovation170▲ 5.5×44 topics
  7. Climate Change163▲ 2.0×78 topics
  8. Sustainable Development153▲ 3.3×48 topics
  9. Human Rights145▲ 4.7×44 topics
  10. E-Learning117▲ 4.1×14 topics
  11. Digital Marketing116▲ 10×4 topics
  12. Public Policy110▲ 7.8×19 topics
  13. COVID-19108▲ 2.8×26 topics
  14. Knowledge Management103▲ 6.2×20 topics
  15. Healthcare Access103▲ 13×12 topics
  16. Social Movements102▲ 12×21 topics
  17. Ethics100▲ 6.7×33 topics
  18. Health Promotion100▲ 11×14 topics
  19. Pedagogy94▲ 6.3×15 topics
  20. Small and Medium Enterprises93▲ 18×6 topics
  21. Technology89▲ 5.7×21 topics
  22. Teacher Training88▲ 4.8×19 topics
  23. Urban Development86▲ 8.2×13 topics
  24. Democracy86▲ 8.2×15 topics
  25. Environmental Management85▲ 7.0×11 topics
  26. Social Responsibility84▲ 12×9 topics
  27. Water Quality84▲ 7.0×13 topics
  28. Economic Impact82▲ 5.2×8 topics
  29. Distance Learning82▲ 7.9×10 topics
  30. Inclusive Education80▲ 7.5×14 topics
  31. Innovation Ecosystems80▲ 26×3 topics
  32. Healthcare Policy75▲ 28×3 topics
  33. Epidemiological Analysis74▲ 41×3 topics
  34. Chronic Disease Control74▲ 129×1 topic
  35. Community-based Resource Management74▲ 129×1 topic
  36. Psychopharmacology Education73▲ 40×1 topic
  37. Tourism Management73▲ 35×1 topic
  38. Inequality69▲ 10×14 topics
  39. Digital Divide68▲ 8.9×7 topics
  40. ICT63▲ 16×5 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?

El Salvador has out-published Angola every year since 2015, when it overtook it.

still counting5001kEl Salvador769 in 2025Angola456 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 counting0.010%0.020%0.030%El Salvador0.013% in 2025Angola0.0078% 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 counting2.5%5%7.5%Angola5.8% in 2025El Salvador4.6% 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.

Angola 05 level0 El Salvador
  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, Angola or El Salvador?

El Salvador publishes 1.8× as much research as Angola in 2022-now (2.7k against 1.5k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Angola or El Salvador?

5.3% of Angola's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.1% for El Salvador.

Is Angola or El Salvador growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +37% against 2018-21 for Angola, and +32% for El Salvador.

Which has more open access research, Angola or El Salvador?

82% of El Salvador's research is free to read, against 77% of Angola's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Angola or El Salvador?

Angola holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and El Salvador 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%.

El Salvador

  1. 1Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas3.3% top 10% · 535 works
  2. 2University of El Salvador3.8% top 10% · 535 works
  3. 3Universidad Don Bosco2.3% top 10% · 421 works
  4. 4Universidad de Oriente7.1% top 10% · 144 works
  5. 5Universidad Evangelica de El Salvador4.7% top 10% · 108 works
  6. 6Universidad Católica de El Salvador4.0% top 10% · 88 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.

Angola

  1. 1 Filomeno Fortes #744,772 worldwide 1.8k citations · 76 works
  2. 2 José Franco Martins #1,216,520 worldwide 267 citations · 25 works
  3. 3 Jonatan P. camargo #1,523,126 worldwide 0 citations · 298 works
  4. 4 Joana F. M. Morais #1,525,226 worldwide 935 citations · 88 works
  5. 5 Albano Vicente Lopes Ferreira #1,567,029 worldwide 498 citations · 28 works

El Salvador

  1. 1 Ramón Gárcía-Trabanino #167,667 worldwide 2.7k citations · 54 works
  2. 2 Lourdes Ramírez Dueñas #482,398 worldwide 2.4k citations · 48 works
  3. 3 Soad Fuentes-Alabí #682,410 worldwide 1.6k citations · 46 works
  4. 4 Carlos Orantes #747,932 worldwide 1.2k citations · 34 works
  5. 5 Francisco S. Álvarez #1,078,172 worldwide 1.7k citations · 31 works