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Argentina vs French Polynesia

On research quality in 2022-now, Argentina ranks #38 in the world and French Polynesia #152, of 189 countries. Argentina stands higher in 25 of the 25 fields both publish in, French Polynesia in 0.

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Argentina

World rank, 2022-now
#38
#37 all time
Works, 2022-now
79k
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.8%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
62%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: General Social Sciences, Paleontology, General Arts and Humanities.

French Polynesia

World rank, 2022-now
#152
#117 all time
Works, 2022-now
313
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.9%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
41%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Developmental Biology, History and Philosophy of Science, Geography, Planning and Development.

Who leads, measure by measure?

French Polynesia leads on 4 of 9 measures: excellence for its fields, citations per work, international co-authorship and growth. Argentina leads on 3 of 9 measures: research quality, output and open access. The two are level on top-10% rate and institutions in the world top 100.

Argentina 32 level4 French Polynesia
  1. #38Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#152
  2. 0.67×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.96×
  3. 79kOutputfractional works, 2022-now313
  4. 5.8%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.9%
  5. 11.6Citations per workall time, per fractional work22.6
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 62%Open accessof its works free to read, all time41%
  8. 20%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time41%
  9. -15%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+4%

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?

Argentina stands higher in 25 of 25 fields, French Polynesia in 0. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Argentina 250 French Polynesia
  1. #32Agricultural and Biological Sciences-
  2. #27Arts and Humanities-
  3. #36Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-
  4. #60Business, Management and Accounting-
  5. #45Chemistry-
  6. #52Computer Science-
  7. #52Decision Sciences-
  8. #46Dentistry-
  9. #33Earth and Planetary Sciences-
  10. #45Economics, Econometrics and Finance-
  11. #50Energy-
  12. #55Engineering-
  13. #42Environmental Science-
  14. #43Health Professions-
  15. #34Immunology and Microbiology-
  16. #57Materials Science-
  17. #34Mathematics-
  18. #37Medicine-
  19. #32Neuroscience-
  20. #32Nursing-
  21. #33Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics-
  22. #40Physics and Astronomy-
  23. #36Psychology-
  24. #28Social Sciences-
  25. #22Veterinary-

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 Argentina rankFrench Polynesia rank Argentina top 10%French Polynesia top 10% Argentina worksFrench Polynesia works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #32 - 6.0% - 6.7k -
Arts and Humanities #27 - 8.0% - 6k -
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #36 - 5.3% - 3.8k -
Business, Management and Accounting #60 - 4.8% - 1.2k -
Chemistry #45 - 4.8% - 970 -
Computer Science #52 - 4.5% - 3k -
Decision Sciences #52 - 5.4% - 302 -
Dentistry #46 - 3.3% - 269 -
Earth and Planetary Sciences #33 - 5.2% - 2.2k -
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #45 - 6.3% - 1.3k -
Energy #50 - 4.5% - 503 -
Engineering #55 - 3.8% - 4.1k -
Environmental Science #42 - 5.2% - 5.5k -
Health Professions #43 - 6.0% - 1.8k -
Immunology and Microbiology #34 - 6.8% - 832 -
Materials Science #57 - 3.5% - 1.5k -
Mathematics #34 - 7.8% - 719 -
Medicine #37 - 5.5% - 13k -
Neuroscience #32 - 5.4% - 1k -
Nursing #32 - 5.3% - 456 -
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics #33 - 6.4% - 216 -
Physics and Astronomy #40 - 4.9% - 1.7k -
Psychology #36 - 5.5% - 2.8k -
Social Sciences #28 - 6.7% - 19k -
Veterinary #22 - 5.8% - 222 -

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.

Argentina

▲ 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. Globalization5,661▲ 3.3×167 topics
  2. Climate Change4,461▲ 1.87×123 topics
  3. Education4,214▲ 2.8×141 topics
  4. Epidemiology4,167▲ 1.19×140 topics
  5. Latin America3,932▲ 24×23 topics
  6. Public Health2,816▲ 2.2×75 topics
  7. History2,786▲ 4.6×64 topics
  8. Social Movements2,751▲ 11×32 topics
  9. Sustainability2,654▲ 1.24×124 topics
  10. Gender2,566▲ 5.4×56 topics
  11. Human Rights2,376▲ 2.6×84 topics
  12. Identity1,909▲ 3.0×75 topics
  13. Cultural Identity1,864▲ 4.3×36 topics
  14. Biodiversity1,796▲ 2.7×37 topics
  15. Neoliberalism1,740▲ 5.5×30 topics
  16. Innovation1,697▲ 1.87×74 topics
  17. Ethics1,695▲ 3.8×59 topics
  18. Social Inequality1,673▲ 7.1×21 topics
  19. Literature1,623▲ 3.4×59 topics
  20. Cultural Studies1,567▲ 4.8×39 topics
  21. Memory1,556▲ 7.2×23 topics
  22. Colonialism1,446▲ 3.5×49 topics
  23. Invasive Species1,426▲ 3.8×21 topics
  24. Inequality1,394▲ 7.0×19 topics
  25. Communication1,383▲ 5.0×23 topics
  26. Philosophy1,347▲ 3.5×44 topics
  27. Politics1,316▲ 5.7×24 topics
  28. Public Policy1,293▲ 3.1×29 topics
  29. Society1,260▲ 7.5×26 topics
  30. Biogeography1,167▲ 4.8×20 topics
  31. Community Participation1,145▲ 3.7×18 topics
  32. Feminism1,125▲ 4.4×26 topics
  33. Violence1,050▲ 8.1×15 topics
  34. Economy1,023▲ 15×8 topics
  35. Molecular Phylogeny927▲ 6.4×12 topics
  36. Welfare State912▲ 13×4 topics
  37. Resistance885▲ 10.0×9 topics
  38. Political Violence883▲ 39×3 topics
  39. Cultural822▲ 19×7 topics
  40. Protest816▲ 24×3 topics

French Polynesia

▲ 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. Climate Change46▲ 4.9×40 topics
  2. Sustainability37▲ 4.3×17 topics
  3. Globalization36▲ 5.2×29 topics
  4. Decolonization28▲ 99×5 topics
  5. Governance26▲ 23×6 topics
  6. Vulnerability25▲ 31×4 topics
  7. Economic Development24▲ 8.8×9 topics
  8. Resilience24▲ 14×7 topics
  9. Environmental Impact23▲ 3.9×18 topics
  10. Pacific23▲ 344×2 topics
  11. Islands22▲ 559×1 topic
  12. Small States22▲ 559×1 topic
  13. Ocean Acidification18▲ 68×3 topics
  14. Public Health18▲ 3.5×20 topics
  15. Migration17▲ 14×8 topics
  16. Marine Ecosystems16▲ 86×2 topics
  17. Identity15▲ 6.2×14 topics
  18. Colonialism14▲ 8.7×13 topics
  19. Conservation14▲ 9.2×13 topics
  20. Public Policy13▲ 8.0×4 topics
  21. Sustainable Development13▲ 2.4×9 topics
  22. Population Dynamics13▲ 15×9 topics
  23. Social Justice13▲ 6.2×6 topics
  24. Community Engagement12▲ 11×5 topics
  25. Genetic Diversity12▲ 8.3×9 topics
  26. Local Development12▲ 34×2 topics
  27. Territorial Governance12▲ 30×2 topics
  28. Bleaching11▲ 101×1 topic
  29. Coral Reefs11▲ 101×1 topic
  30. Archaeology10▲ 24×3 topics
  31. Citizen Participation10▲ 26×1 topic
  32. Cultural History10▲ 25×2 topics
  33. Environmental Participation10▲ 43×1 topic
  34. Island Ecosystems10▲ 87×2 topics
  35. Pacific Islands10▲ 224×1 topic
  36. settlement10▲ 224×1 topic
  37. Aquaculture9▲ 10×7 topics
  38. Marine Environment9▲ 18×3 topics
  39. Cultural Diversity9▲ 11×5 topics
  40. Healthcare Access8▲ 8.9×4 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?

Argentina has out-published French Polynesia every year since 1980.

still counting10k20k30kArgentina20k in 2025French Polynesia69 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 counting0.20%0.40%0.60%Argentina0.34% in 2025French Polynesia0.0012% 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%French Polynesia7.3% in 2025Argentina6.0% 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.

Argentina 23 level0 French Polynesia
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 0In the top 5000
  4. 2In the top 1,0000
  5. #35Elite 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, Argentina or French Polynesia?

Argentina publishes 253.0× as much research as French Polynesia in 2022-now (79k against 313 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Argentina or French Polynesia?

5.9% of French Polynesia's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.8% for Argentina.

Is Argentina or French Polynesia growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +4% against 2018-21 for French Polynesia, and -15% for Argentina.

Which has more open access research, Argentina or French Polynesia?

62% of Argentina's research is free to read, against 41% of French Polynesia's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Argentina or French Polynesia?

Argentina holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and French Polynesia 0; in the top 1,000 it is 2 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%.

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.

Argentina

  1. 1 Rafael Ugarriza Díaz #1,505 worldwide 80k citations · 380 works
  2. 2 Enzo Tagliazucchi #4,405 worldwide 15k citations · 294 works
  3. 3 Osvaldo E. Sala #6,469 worldwide 55k citations · 325 works
  4. 4 Sandra M. Díaz #7,348 worldwide 83k citations · 374 works
  5. 5 G. Farrar #18,089 worldwide 10k citations · 105 works

French Polynesia

  1. 1 Joachim Claudet #13,481 worldwide 13k citations · 340 works
  2. 2 Jeffrey Allen Maynard #68,760 worldwide 8k citations · 82 works
  3. 3 Didier Musso #145,369 worldwide 21k citations · 223 works
  4. 4 Van‐Mai Cao‐Lormeau #156,587 worldwide 14k citations · 126 works
  5. 5 Lauric Thiault #264,474 worldwide 1.6k citations · 38 works

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