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Armenia vs Russia

On research quality in 2022-now, Russia ranks #49 in the world and Armenia #153, of 189 countries. Armenia stands higher in 0 of the 26 fields both publish in, Russia in 26.

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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.

Russia

World rank, 2022-now
#49
#38 all time
Works, 2022-now
544k
fractional
Top-10% rate
4.4%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
41%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Nuclear Energy and Engineering, Fuel Technology, General Materials Science.

Who leads, measure by measure?

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

Armenia 51 level3 Russia
  1. #153Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#49
  2. 0.43×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.34×
  3. 9.9kOutputfractional works, 2022-now544k
  4. 4.0%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited4.4%
  5. 8.0Citations per workall time, per fractional work7.0
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 47%Open accessof its works free to read, all time41%
  8. 26%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time14%
  9. +97%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change-10%

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 0 of 26 fields, Russia in 26. Russia leads most in Materials Science (#30 against #87). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Armenia 026 Russia
  1. #117Agricultural and Biological Sciences#57
  2. #82Arts and Humanities#37
  3. #87Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#52
  4. #107Business, Management and Accounting#56
  5. -Chemical Engineering#35
  6. #71Chemistry#37
  7. #124Computer Science#46
  8. -Decision Sciences#43
  9. -Dentistry#55
  10. -Earth and Planetary Sciences#56
  11. #102Economics, Econometrics and Finance#42
  12. -Energy#53
  13. #121Engineering#43
  14. #115Environmental Science#86
  15. -Health Professions#73
  16. -Immunology and Microbiology#58
  17. #87Materials Science#30
  18. #65Mathematics#13
  19. #119Medicine#68
  20. -Neuroscience#57
  21. -Nursing#51
  22. -Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#42
  23. #64Physics and Astronomy#30
  24. #99Psychology#64
  25. #133Social Sciences#37
  26. -Veterinary#27

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 rankRussia rank Armenia top 10%Russia top 10% Armenia worksRussia works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #117 #57 4.5% 4.6% 579 31k
Arts and Humanities #82 #37 5.0% 7.1% 544 14k
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #87 #52 3.9% 3.2% 394 23k
Business, Management and Accounting #107 #56 2.7% 5.6% 343 16k
Chemical Engineering - #35 - 2.4% - 2.5k
Chemistry #71 #37 1.5% 2.7% 271 14k
Computer Science #124 #46 2.8% 5.3% 525 33k
Decision Sciences - #43 - 5.8% - 3.8k
Dentistry - #55 - 2.5% - 1.8k
Earth and Planetary Sciences - #56 - 3.1% - 19k
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #102 #42 4.3% 5.9% 523 16k
Energy - #53 - 4.0% - 5.1k
Engineering #121 #43 3.0% 3.5% 967 97k
Environmental Science #115 #86 3.4% 3.6% 342 25k
Health Professions - #73 - 3.3% - 5.8k
Immunology and Microbiology - #58 - 2.5% - 4k
Materials Science #87 #30 2.7% 2.9% 292 28k
Mathematics #65 #13 3.4% 5.7% 264 10k
Medicine #119 #68 4.6% 3.2% 1k 72k
Neuroscience - #57 - 2.4% - 7k
Nursing - #51 - 3.0% - 1.4k
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics - #42 - 2.5% - 1.6k
Physics and Astronomy #64 #30 3.9% 3.0% 585 24k
Psychology #99 #64 3.5% 4.7% 291 9.5k
Social Sciences #133 #37 4.9% 7.8% 2.1k 80k
Veterinary - #27 - 2.4% - 426

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

Russia

▲ 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. Sustainable Development37k▲ 3.9×113 topics
  2. Climate Change33k▲ 2.0×132 topics
  3. Digital Transformation24k▲ 7.3×32 topics
  4. Innovation24k▲ 3.8×91 topics
  5. Artificial Intelligence23k▲ 2.7×67 topics
  6. Globalization23k▲ 1.94×186 topics
  7. Sustainability18k▲ 1.20×140 topics
  8. Energy Efficiency16k▲ 3.0×45 topics
  9. Regional Development16k▲ 8.0×21 topics
  10. Digital Economy15k▲ 12×20 topics
  11. Economic Development15k▲ 3.1×57 topics
  12. Food Security13k▲ 4.0×25 topics
  13. Educational Technology13k▲ 1.80×48 topics
  14. E-Learning11k▲ 1.97×27 topics
  15. Legal Regulation11k▲ 8.3×8 topics
  16. Digitalization11k▲ 9.0×16 topics
  17. Language11k▲ 7.1×15 topics
  18. Pedagogy9,445▲ 3.1×30 topics
  19. Economic Security8,448▲ 6.6×7 topics
  20. Migration8,418▲ 4.1×35 topics
  21. Ethnicity8,272▲ 3.7×25 topics
  22. International Relations7,912▲ 5.4×31 topics
  23. Global Economy7,846▲ 10×7 topics
  24. Geopolitics7,489▲ 8.2×12 topics
  25. Media7,153▲ 7.9×19 topics
  26. Cyber-Physical Systems6,922▲ 4.4×9 topics
  27. Arctic6,854▲ 10×4 topics
  28. Blockchain Technology6,746▲ 20×4 topics
  29. Linguistics6,575▲ 6.9×9 topics
  30. Youth6,520▲ 7.8×10 topics
  31. Geographical Analysis6,050▲ 24×2 topics
  32. Information Security6,016▲ 10×4 topics
  33. Digital Technologies5,999▲ 7.4×6 topics
  34. Knowledge Clusters5,806▲ 25×2 topics
  35. Agricultural Development5,664▲ 6.2×7 topics
  36. Macroeconomic Assessment5,469▲ 25×1 topic
  37. Russian Economy5,469▲ 25×1 topic
  38. Phraseology5,279▲ 12×3 topics
  39. Spatial Patterns5,109▲ 9.1×4 topics
  40. Cultural Communication4,923▲ 24×1 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?

Russia has out-published Armenia every year since 1980.

still counting100k200kRussia112k in 2025Armenia3,005 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 counting2.0%4.0%Russia1.9% in 2025Armenia0.051% 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%Russia4.7% 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 Russia
  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 Russia?

Russia publishes 55.1× as much research as Armenia in 2022-now (544k against 9.9k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Armenia or Russia?

4.4% of Russia's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.0% for Armenia.

Is Armenia or Russia growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +97% against 2018-21 for Armenia, and -10% for Russia.

Which has more open access research, Armenia or Russia?

47% of Armenia's research is free to read, against 41% of Russia's.

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

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

Russia

  1. 1Russian Academy of Sciences4.1% top 10% · 132k works
  2. 2National Research University Higher School of Economics8.0% top 10% · 8.5k works
  3. 3Financial University9.5% top 10% · 4.6k works
  4. 4ITMO University4.7% top 10% · 3.5k works
  5. 5Ural State University of Economics4.1% top 10% · 951 works
  6. 6Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology8.6% top 10% · 1.6k 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

Russia

  1. 1 S. L. Danilishin #1,207 worldwide 94k citations · 319 works
  2. 2 A. Khanzadeev #1,297 worldwide 45k citations · 397 works
  3. 3 V. Barret #2,233 worldwide 23k citations · 184 works
  4. 4 I. Novikov #4,043 worldwide 38k citations · 135 works
  5. 5 V. Punin #4,147 worldwide 27k citations · 248 works