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Armenia vs Gabon

On research quality in 2022-now, Armenia ranks #153 in the world and Gabon #155, of 189 countries. Armenia stands higher in 14 of the 15 fields both publish in, Gabon in 1.

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Armenia

World rank, 2022-now
#153
#163 all time
Works, 2022-now
9.9k
fractional
Top-10% rate
4.0%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
47%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: General Energy, Archeology, Classics.

Gabon

World rank, 2022-now
#155
#146 all time
Works, 2022-now
782
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.4%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
60%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Parasitology, Forestry, Virology.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Gabon leads on 5 of 9 measures: excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work, open access and international co-authorship. Armenia leads on 3 of 9 measures: research quality, output and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Armenia 31 level5 Gabon
  1. #153Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#155
  2. 0.43×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.74×
  3. 9.9kOutputfractional works, 2022-now782
  4. 4.0%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.4%
  5. 8.0Citations per workall time, per fractional work13.9
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 47%Open accessof its works free to read, all time60%
  8. 26%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time47%
  9. +97%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+38%

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?

Armenia stands higher in 14 of 15 fields, Gabon in 1. Gabon leads most in Medicine (#110 against #119). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Armenia 141 Gabon
  1. #117Agricultural and Biological Sciences-
  2. #82Arts and Humanities-
  3. #87Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-
  4. #107Business, Management and Accounting-
  5. #71Chemistry-
  6. #124Computer Science-
  7. #102Economics, Econometrics and Finance-
  8. #121Engineering-
  9. #115Environmental Science-
  10. #87Materials Science-
  11. #65Mathematics-
  12. #119Medicine#110
  13. #64Physics and Astronomy-
  14. #99Psychology-
  15. #133Social 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 Armenia rankGabon rank Armenia top 10%Gabon top 10% Armenia worksGabon works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #117 - 4.5% - 579 -
Arts and Humanities #82 - 5.0% - 544 -
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #87 - 3.9% - 394 -
Business, Management and Accounting #107 - 2.7% - 343 -
Chemistry #71 - 1.5% - 271 -
Computer Science #124 - 2.8% - 525 -
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #102 - 4.3% - 523 -
Engineering #121 - 3.0% - 967 -
Environmental Science #115 - 3.4% - 342 -
Materials Science #87 - 2.7% - 292 -
Mathematics #65 - 3.4% - 264 -
Medicine #119 #110 4.6% 3.9% 1k 329
Physics and Astronomy #64 - 3.9% - 585 -
Psychology #99 - 3.5% - 291 -
Social Sciences #133 - 4.9% - 2.1k -

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.

Armenia

▲ 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. Globalization724▲ 3.3×114 topics
  2. Climate Change514▲ 1.68×110 topics
  3. Sustainable Development436▲ 2.5×93 topics
  4. Education435▲ 2.2×90 topics
  5. Sustainability389▲ 1.41×107 topics
  6. Human Rights387▲ 3.4×69 topics
  7. Innovation380▲ 3.3×65 topics
  8. Artificial Intelligence291▲ 1.81×53 topics
  9. Neoliberalism288▲ 7.1×19 topics
  10. Cultural Exchange272▲ 19×7 topics
  11. Economic Development271▲ 3.0×42 topics
  12. Renewable Energy242▲ 1.49×51 topics
  13. Immigration218▲ 18×7 topics
  14. European Immigration207▲ 181×1 topic
  15. Human Agency207▲ 181×1 topic
  16. Democracy186▲ 4.7×21 topics
  17. International Relations186▲ 6.8×26 topics
  18. Economic Growth185▲ 2.0×34 topics
  19. Geopolitics167▲ 9.8×10 topics
  20. Political Economy163▲ 5.6×15 topics
  21. Digital Transformation160▲ 2.6×26 topics
  22. Labor Market160▲ 5.0×13 topics
  23. Synthesis157▲ 3.7×35 topics
  24. Legal Regulation151▲ 6.0×8 topics
  25. Agriculture150▲ 3.5×14 topics
  26. Judicial Review150▲ 16×5 topics
  27. Global Governance146▲ 5.4×21 topics
  28. Constitutionalism140▲ 14×3 topics
  29. ECHR139▲ 36×1 topic
  30. European Legal Systems139▲ 36×1 topic
  31. Central Asia135▲ 17×4 topics
  32. Financial Crisis123▲ 9.7×14 topics
  33. Sovereignty119▲ 12×10 topics
  34. Human Capital118▲ 6.8×9 topics
  35. Linguistics115▲ 6.5×7 topics
  36. Cultural Interaction100▲ 35×2 topics
  37. Ethnic Conflict98▲ 19×4 topics
  38. Eurasian Exchange95▲ 41×1 topic
  39. Silk Roads95▲ 41×1 topic
  40. Nation-Building92▲ 15×4 topics

Gabon

▲ 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. Epidemiology180▲ 4.5×116 topics
  2. Vaccine Development53▲ 21×11 topics
  3. Public Health51▲ 3.5×36 topics
  4. Global Burden47▲ 8.7×12 topics
  5. Immune Response41▲ 7.3×19 topics
  6. Climate Change39▲ 1.44×56 topics
  7. Diagnosis34▲ 3.7×37 topics
  8. Vaccine32▲ 8.1×11 topics
  9. Treatment32▲ 2.6×35 topics
  10. Insecticide Resistance31▲ 39×4 topics
  11. Helminth Infections29▲ 70×2 topics
  12. Genome Sequence28▲ 34×2 topics
  13. Artemisinin Resistance26▲ 79×1 topic
  14. Plasmodium falciparum26▲ 79×1 topic
  15. Smallholder Farmers26▲ 12×5 topics
  16. Pathogenesis25▲ 4.9×20 topics
  17. Risk Factors24▲ 2.2×25 topics
  18. Vector Control23▲ 20×4 topics
  19. Drug Resistance20▲ 7.0×9 topics
  20. Biodiversity Conservation18▲ 5.0×9 topics
  21. SARS-CoV-218▲ 6.0×5 topics
  22. Global Epidemiology17▲ 39×2 topics
  23. Arboviral Diseases17▲ 27×1 topic
  24. Zika Virus17▲ 27×1 topic
  25. Disease Burden17▲ 23×2 topics
  26. Zoonotic Infections17▲ 31×2 topics
  27. Adaptation17▲ 5.6×9 topics
  28. Immune Regulation16▲ 14×4 topics
  29. Antiretroviral Therapy16▲ 9.5×6 topics
  30. Immunomodulation16▲ 12×2 topics
  31. Schistosomiasis15▲ 55×1 topic
  32. Soil-Transmitted Helminths15▲ 55×1 topic
  33. Ivermectin15▲ 54×2 topics
  34. ACE2 Receptor14▲ 6.3×3 topics
  35. Agroforestry14▲ 20×3 topics
  36. Diversity14▲ 7.8×2 topics
  37. Lymphatic Filariasis14▲ 104×1 topic
  38. Onchocerciasis14▲ 104×1 topic
  39. Nutritional Value13▲ 12×3 topics
  40. Agroecology12▲ 8.8×2 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?

Armenia has out-published Gabon every year since 1980.

still counting2k4kArmenia3,005 in 2025Gabon193 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%0.060%Armenia0.051% in 2025Gabon0.0033% 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%Gabon6.0% in 2025Armenia4.6% 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.

Armenia 05 level0 Gabon
  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, Armenia or Gabon?

Armenia publishes 12.6× as much research as Gabon in 2022-now (9.9k against 782 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Armenia or Gabon?

5.4% of Gabon's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.0% for Armenia.

Is Armenia or Gabon growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +97% against 2018-21 for Armenia, and +38% for Gabon.

Which has more open access research, Armenia or Gabon?

60% of Gabon's research is free to read, against 47% of Armenia's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Armenia or Gabon?

Armenia holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Gabon 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%.

Gabon

  1. 1Omar Bongo University5.6% top 10% · 170 works
  2. 2Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku2.4% top 10% · 139 works
  3. 3Université des Sciences de la Santé4.0% top 10% · 135 works
  4. 4Libreville Hospital4.3% top 10% · 126 works
  5. 5Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville5.9% top 10% · 62 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.

Armenia

  1. 1 T. Dahms #1,639 worldwide 82k citations · 841 works
  2. 2 W. Haj Ahmad #1,668 worldwide 47k citations · 510 works
  3. 3 H. Van Haevermaet #1,688 worldwide 78k citations · 848 works
  4. 4 P. Ronchese #1,703 worldwide 30k citations · 258 works
  5. 5 O. Bondu #1,778 worldwide 40k citations · 463 works

Gabon

  1. 1 Sélidji Todagbé Agnandji #147,661 worldwide 6.8k citations · 179 works
  2. 2 Eric Maurice Leroy #219,537 worldwide 24k citations · 321 works
  3. 3 Vincent P. Medjibe #255,842 worldwide 3.1k citations · 43 works
  4. 4 Dieudonné Nkoghe #290,691 worldwide 3.9k citations · 46 works
  5. 5 Pulchérie Bissiengou #307,381 worldwide 994 citations · 63 works