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Armenia vs Uzbekistan

On research quality in 2022-now, Uzbekistan ranks #121 in the world and Armenia #153, of 189 countries. Armenia stands higher in 5 of the 20 fields both publish in, Uzbekistan in 15.

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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.

Uzbekistan

World rank, 2022-now
#121
#164 all time
Works, 2022-now
48k
fractional
Top-10% rate
6.1%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
68%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Aquatic Science, Anatomy, Nuclear Energy and Engineering.

Who leads, measure by measure?

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

Armenia 21 level6 Uzbekistan
  1. #153Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#121
  2. 0.43×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.46×
  3. 9.9kOutputfractional works, 2022-now48k
  4. 4.0%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.1%
  5. 8.0Citations per workall time, per fractional work2.1
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 47%Open accessof its works free to read, all time68%
  8. 26%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time13%
  9. +97%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+108%

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?

Armenia stands higher in 5 of 20 fields, Uzbekistan in 15. Uzbekistan leads most in Engineering (#78 against #121); Armenia leads most in Medicine (#119 against #151). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Armenia 515 Uzbekistan
  1. #117Agricultural and Biological Sciences#88
  2. #82Arts and Humanities#87
  3. #87Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#99
  4. #107Business, Management and Accounting#102
  5. #71Chemistry#66
  6. #124Computer Science#96
  7. -Decision Sciences#74
  8. -Earth and Planetary Sciences#76
  9. #102Economics, Econometrics and Finance#74
  10. -Energy#64
  11. #121Engineering#78
  12. #115Environmental Science#117
  13. -Health Professions#91
  14. #87Materials Science#62
  15. #65Mathematics#57
  16. #119Medicine#151
  17. -Neuroscience#70
  18. #64Physics and Astronomy#56
  19. #99Psychology#103
  20. #133Social Sciences#115

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 rankUzbekistan rank Armenia top 10%Uzbekistan top 10% Armenia worksUzbekistan works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #117 #88 4.5% 8.0% 579 3.9k
Arts and Humanities #82 #87 5.0% 4.9% 544 2.5k
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #87 #99 3.9% 3.2% 394 774
Business, Management and Accounting #107 #102 2.7% 5.8% 343 1.6k
Chemistry #71 #66 1.5% 2.9% 271 571
Computer Science #124 #96 2.8% 6.5% 525 3.1k
Decision Sciences - #74 - 5.9% - 263
Earth and Planetary Sciences - #76 - 5.8% - 318
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #102 #74 4.3% 7.6% 523 3k
Energy - #64 - 7.9% - 558
Engineering #121 #78 3.0% 7.9% 967 6.6k
Environmental Science #115 #117 3.4% 5.5% 342 1.4k
Health Professions - #91 - 5.0% - 1.4k
Materials Science #87 #62 2.7% 6.0% 292 1.4k
Mathematics #65 #57 3.4% 8.0% 264 1.2k
Medicine #119 #151 4.6% 1.7% 1k 4.2k
Neuroscience - #70 - 3.4% - 282
Physics and Astronomy #64 #56 3.9% 10.6% 585 1.1k
Psychology #99 #103 3.5% 3.3% 291 1k
Social Sciences #133 #115 4.9% 6.3% 2.1k 12k

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

Uzbekistan

▲ 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. Pedagogy7,132▲ 21×26 topics
  2. Language Teaching6,555▲ 37×8 topics
  3. Digital Education6,332▲ 64×7 topics
  4. Educational Technologies6,278▲ 104×2 topics
  5. Tourism Development6,095▲ 67×2 topics
  6. Teaching Methods6,091▲ 57×10 topics
  7. Critical Thinking6,061▲ 79×5 topics
  8. Formative Assessment6,046▲ 109×2 topics
  9. Artistic Education6,019▲ 139×1 topic
  10. Student Competencies6,019▲ 139×1 topic
  11. Globalization5,596▲ 4.3×147 topics
  12. Sustainability4,687▲ 2.9×125 topics
  13. Digital Economy4,324▲ 32×18 topics
  14. Entrepreneurship4,139▲ 16×22 topics
  15. Economic Development4,107▲ 7.7×48 topics
  16. Renewable Energy3,494▲ 3.6×60 topics
  17. Sustainable Development3,486▲ 3.4×102 topics
  18. Investment3,309▲ 44×6 topics
  19. Industrial Enterprises3,228▲ 143×1 topic
  20. Innovation Economics3,228▲ 143×1 topic
  21. Innovation2,735▲ 4.0×81 topics
  22. Education2,463▲ 2.2×132 topics
  23. Educational Technology2,452▲ 3.1×45 topics
  24. Energy Consumption2,050▲ 14×8 topics
  25. E-Learning2,039▲ 3.2×26 topics
  26. History2,007▲ 4.3×50 topics
  27. Climate Change Impact1,988▲ 13×8 topics
  28. Irrigation1,929▲ 150×1 topic
  29. Water Efficiency1,929▲ 150×1 topic
  30. Online Learning1,812▲ 3.3×26 topics
  31. Language1,754▲ 11×15 topics
  32. Philosophy1,753▲ 6.0×39 topics
  33. Digitalization1,460▲ 11×14 topics
  34. Ethnicity1,436▲ 5.8×22 topics
  35. Global Governance1,426▲ 8.9×23 topics
  36. Migration1,397▲ 6.2×31 topics
  37. Legal Regulation1,363▲ 9.1×8 topics
  38. Economic Security1,301▲ 9.2×7 topics
  39. Islam1,195▲ 8.7×5 topics
  40. Social Influence1,194▲ 8.5×3 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?

Uzbekistan has out-published Armenia every year since 2018, when it overtook it.

still counting10k20kUzbekistan14k 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 counting0.10%0.20%0.30%Uzbekistan0.24% 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%Uzbekistan5.4% 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 Uzbekistan
  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 Uzbekistan?

Uzbekistan publishes 4.8× as much research as Armenia in 2022-now (48k against 9.9k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Armenia or Uzbekistan?

6.1% of Uzbekistan's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.0% for Armenia.

Is Armenia or Uzbekistan growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +108% against 2018-21 for Uzbekistan, and +97% for Armenia.

Which has more open access research, Armenia or Uzbekistan?

68% of Uzbekistan's research is free to read, against 47% of Armenia's.

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

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

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

Uzbekistan

  1. 1 Farruh Atamurotov #8,102 worldwide 5.7k citations · 283 works
  2. 2 Javlon Rayimbaev #10,233 worldwide 3.6k citations · 178 works
  3. 3 Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov #23,455 worldwide 7.2k citations · 268 works
  4. 4 Inomjon Ibragimov #46,540 worldwide 554 citations · 53 works
  5. 5 Bobomurat J. Ahmedov #76,306 worldwide 8.6k citations · 318 works