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Azerbaijan vs Uzbekistan

On research quality in 2022-now, Uzbekistan ranks #121 in the world and Azerbaijan #157, of 189 countries. Azerbaijan stands higher in 5 of the 20 fields both publish in, Uzbekistan in 15.

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Azerbaijan

World rank, 2022-now
#157
#184 all time
Works, 2022-now
18k
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.9%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
61%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: General Energy, Fuel Technology, Museology.

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?

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

Azerbaijan 33 level3 Uzbekistan
  1. #157Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#121
  2. 0.49×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.46×
  3. 18kOutputfractional works, 2022-now48k
  4. 5.9%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.1%
  5. 4.2Citations per workall time, per fractional work2.1
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 61%Open accessof its works free to read, all time68%
  8. 26%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time13%
  9. +105%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?

Azerbaijan stands higher in 5 of 20 fields, Uzbekistan in 15. Uzbekistan leads most in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#88 against #120); Azerbaijan leads most in Business, Management and Accounting (#96 against #102). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Azerbaijan 515 Uzbekistan
  1. #120Agricultural and Biological Sciences#88
  2. #88Arts and Humanities#87
  3. #101Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#99
  4. #96Business, Management and Accounting#102
  5. #70Chemistry#66
  6. #117Computer Science#96
  7. #72Decision Sciences#74
  8. #73Earth and Planetary Sciences#76
  9. #87Economics, Econometrics and Finance#74
  10. #68Energy#64
  11. #108Engineering#78
  12. #119Environmental Science#117
  13. #104Health Professions#91
  14. #81Materials Science#62
  15. #71Mathematics#57
  16. #148Medicine#151
  17. -Neuroscience#70
  18. #67Physics and Astronomy#56
  19. #101Psychology#103
  20. #120Social 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 Azerbaijan rankUzbekistan rank Azerbaijan top 10%Uzbekistan top 10% Azerbaijan worksUzbekistan works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #120 #88 4.3% 8.0% 1.1k 3.9k
Arts and Humanities #88 #87 7.3% 4.9% 1.4k 2.5k
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #101 #99 3.1% 3.2% 407 774
Business, Management and Accounting #96 #102 8.0% 5.8% 569 1.6k
Chemistry #70 #66 3.6% 2.9% 439 571
Computer Science #117 #96 7.1% 6.5% 1.2k 3.1k
Decision Sciences #72 #74 6.8% 5.9% 219 263
Earth and Planetary Sciences #73 #76 4.6% 5.8% 424 318
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #87 #74 10.6% 7.6% 927 3k
Energy #68 #64 7.4% 7.9% 353 558
Engineering #108 #78 4.4% 7.9% 2.6k 6.6k
Environmental Science #119 #117 6.8% 5.5% 688 1.4k
Health Professions #104 #91 4.7% 5.0% 226 1.4k
Materials Science #81 #62 6.2% 6.0% 786 1.4k
Mathematics #71 #57 7.0% 8.0% 518 1.2k
Medicine #148 #151 3.2% 1.7% 1.5k 4.2k
Neuroscience - #70 - 3.4% - 282
Physics and Astronomy #67 #56 11.0% 10.6% 524 1.1k
Psychology #101 #103 4.6% 3.3% 525 1k
Social Sciences #120 #115 6.2% 6.3% 3.3k 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.

Azerbaijan

▲ 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. Globalization1,178▲ 2.7×137 topics
  2. Sustainable Development1,057▲ 3.0×104 topics
  3. Climate Change962▲ 1.59×118 topics
  4. Sustainability956▲ 1.76×116 topics
  5. Education900▲ 2.4×109 topics
  6. Renewable Energy881▲ 2.7×57 topics
  7. Innovation866▲ 3.8×74 topics
  8. Economic Development658▲ 3.7×51 topics
  9. Cultural Heritage593▲ 5.0×32 topics
  10. Pedagogy588▲ 5.3×23 topics
  11. Artificial Intelligence530▲ 1.67×64 topics
  12. Language Teaching516▲ 8.7×8 topics
  13. Energy Efficiency494▲ 2.4×43 topics
  14. Digital Transformation461▲ 3.8×26 topics
  15. Teacher Training455▲ 3.3×24 topics
  16. Economic Growth412▲ 2.3×33 topics
  17. Educational Technologies398▲ 20×2 topics
  18. Digital Economy395▲ 8.8×19 topics
  19. Tourism Development393▲ 13×2 topics
  20. Language389▲ 7.1×13 topics
  21. Digital Education385▲ 12×7 topics
  22. Teaching Methods378▲ 11×9 topics
  23. Critical Thinking377▲ 15×5 topics
  24. Formative Assessment358▲ 19×2 topics
  25. Artistic Education350▲ 24×1 topic
  26. Student Competencies350▲ 24×1 topic
  27. Linguistics318▲ 9.0×7 topics
  28. Global Governance317▲ 5.9×22 topics
  29. Migration316▲ 4.2×26 topics
  30. Geopolitics269▲ 8.0×10 topics
  31. Ethnography263▲ 6.9×12 topics
  32. Sufism256▲ 25×2 topics
  33. Language Contact253▲ 12×6 topics
  34. Morphology241▲ 6.1×12 topics
  35. Folklore225▲ 20×3 topics
  36. Mythology223▲ 20×3 topics
  37. Etymology218▲ 21×2 topics
  38. Historical Phonology218▲ 21×2 topics
  39. Rituals215▲ 12×4 topics
  40. Storytelling215▲ 20×4 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 Azerbaijan every year since 2019, when it overtook it.

still counting10k20kUzbekistan14k in 2025Azerbaijan6,677 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 2025Azerbaijan0.11% 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%Azerbaijan6.7% in 2025Uzbekistan5.4% 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.

Azerbaijan 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, Azerbaijan or Uzbekistan?

Uzbekistan publishes 2.6× as much research as Azerbaijan in 2022-now (48k against 18k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Azerbaijan or Uzbekistan?

6.1% of Uzbekistan's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.9% for Azerbaijan.

Is Azerbaijan or Uzbekistan growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +108% against 2018-21 for Uzbekistan, and +105% for Azerbaijan.

Which has more open access research, Azerbaijan or Uzbekistan?

68% of Uzbekistan's research is free to read, against 61% of Azerbaijan's.

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

Azerbaijan 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%.

Azerbaijan

  1. 1Nakhchivan State University8.5% top 10% · 1.3k works
  2. 2Azerbaijan State University of Economics12.8% top 10% · 1.2k works
  3. 3Khazar University16.1% top 10% · 642 works
  4. 4National Nuclear Research Center7.2% top 10% · 562 works
  5. 5Western Caspian University21.1% top 10% · 541 works
  6. 6ADA University6.0% top 10% · 782 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.

Azerbaijan

  1. 1 J. Yu #898 worldwide 55k citations · 554 works
  2. 2 S. H. Robertson #1,281 worldwide 39k citations · 435 works
  3. 3 E. Guido #1,392 worldwide 39k citations · 411 works
  4. 4 V. Andrei #1,613 worldwide 60k citations · 480 works
  5. 5 F. K. Loebinger #1,788 worldwide 45k citations · 454 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