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Bahamas vs British Virgin Islands

On research quality in 2022-now, The Bahamas ranks #169 in the world and the British Virgin Islands #172, of 189 countries. The Bahamas stands higher in 0 of the 1 fields both publish in, the British Virgin Islands in 1.

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Bahamas

World rank, 2022-now
#169
#151 all time
Works, 2022-now
274
fractional
Top-10% rate
6.8%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
50%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Library and Information Sciences, Research and Theory, Cultural Studies.

British Virgin Islands

World rank, 2022-now
#172
#134 all time
Works, 2022-now
627
fractional
Top-10% rate
2.1%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
4%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Ocean Engineering, Geophysics, Geology.

Who leads, measure by measure?

The Bahamas leads on 5 of 9 measures: research quality, citation excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, open access and growth. The British Virgin Islands leads on 2 of 9 measures: output and citations per work. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100 and international co-authorship.

Bahamas 52 level2 British Virgin Islands
  1. #169Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#172
  2. 0.93×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.71×
  3. 274Outputfractional works, 2022-now627
  4. 6.8%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited2.1%
  5. 9.4Citations per workall time, per fractional work9.8
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 50%Open accessof its works free to read, all time4%
  8. 36%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time35%
  9. +8%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change-68%

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?

Bahamas stands higher in 0 of 1 fields, British Virgin Islands in 1. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Bahamas 01 British Virgin Islands
  1. -Engineering#112

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 Bahamas rankBritish Virgin Islands rank Bahamas top 10%British Virgin Islands top 10% Bahamas worksBritish Virgin Islands works
Engineering - #112 - 0.8% - 390

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.

Bahamas

▲ 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 Change28▲ 3.4×47 topics
  2. Globalization25▲ 4.1×30 topics
  3. Identity17▲ 7.5×12 topics
  4. Gender16▲ 9.9×13 topics
  5. Culture15▲ 9.4×7 topics
  6. Postcolonialism14▲ 32×6 topics
  7. Nationalism14▲ 9.8×5 topics
  8. Race14▲ 37×5 topics
  9. Caribbean13▲ 229×3 topics
  10. Politics12▲ 15×4 topics
  11. Dancehall12▲ 521×1 topic
  12. Sustainability10▲ 1.41×26 topics
  13. Conservation9▲ 6.8×9 topics
  14. Population Dynamics8▲ 11×10 topics
  15. Vulnerability8▲ 12×5 topics
  16. Migration7▲ 6.9×5 topics
  17. Marine Ecosystems6▲ 34×2 topics
  18. Adaptation6▲ 6.2×7 topics
  19. Global Warming6▲ 4.3×8 topics
  20. Fisheries Sustainability5▲ 18×2 topics
  21. COVID-19 Impact4▲ 8.2×4 topics
  22. Sea-Level Rise4▲ 12×4 topics
  23. Cultural Competence4▲ 11×5 topics
  24. Academic Dishonesty4▲ 92×1 topic
  25. Plagiarism4▲ 92×1 topic
  26. Quantum Gravity4▲ 16×4 topics
  27. Vocational Education4▲ 15×2 topics
  28. Decolonization4▲ 15×2 topics
  29. Pacific4▲ 65×2 topics
  30. Ecology4▲ 7.1×3 topics
  31. Fisheries4▲ 28×2 topics
  32. Tropical Cyclones4▲ 21×2 topics
  33. Dark Energy4▲ 18×2 topics
  34. Phylogeny4▲ 7.1×3 topics
  35. Rays4▲ 52×1 topic
  36. Sharks4▲ 52×1 topic
  37. Contamination4▲ 13×3 topics
  38. General Relativity4▲ 17×2 topics
  39. Islands4▲ 101×1 topic
  40. Small States4▲ 101×1 topic

British Virgin Islands

▲ 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. Optimization92▲ 31×5 topics
  2. Uncertainty Quantification91▲ 176×2 topics
  3. Data Assimilation91▲ 85×1 topic
  4. Ensemble Kalman Filter91▲ 136×1 topic
  5. Machine Learning90▲ 4.1×20 topics
  6. CO2 Sequestration80▲ 62×4 topics
  7. Vibration Analysis76▲ 43×3 topics
  8. Nanoparticles75▲ 9.1×5 topics
  9. Rheological Properties75▲ 64×2 topics
  10. Drilling Fluids75▲ 217×1 topic
  11. Well Integrity75▲ 217×1 topic
  12. Hydraulic Fracturing74▲ 106×2 topics
  13. Fracture Propagation70▲ 179×1 topic
  14. Shale Gas Reservoirs70▲ 179×1 topic
  15. Fault Diagnosis63▲ 67×3 topics
  16. Predictive Maintenance63▲ 130×3 topics
  17. Data Analytics62▲ 211×2 topics
  18. Artificial Lift Systems62▲ 344×1 topic
  19. Electric Submersible Pumps62▲ 344×1 topic
  20. Geophysical Imaging45▲ 129×2 topics
  21. Inverse Problems42▲ 57×2 topics
  22. Full-Waveform Tomography42▲ 152×1 topic
  23. Seismic Waveform Inversion42▲ 152×1 topic
  24. Shale Gas28▲ 36×2 topics
  25. Gas Permeability24▲ 39×2 topics
  26. Pore Structure24▲ 30×2 topics
  27. Mudstones24▲ 50×1 topic
  28. Thermal Maturity24▲ 50×1 topic
  29. Porous Media14▲ 17×2 topics
  30. Tomography14▲ 12×4 topics
  31. Seismic Noise13▲ 42×1 topic
  32. Surface Wave13▲ 42×1 topic
  33. Pore-scale Modeling11▲ 44×1 topic
  34. X-ray Computed Tomography11▲ 44×1 topic
  35. Geological Conditions9▲ 37×2 topics
  36. Performance Prediction9▲ 20×2 topics
  37. Geological Mapping9▲ 18×2 topics
  38. TBM9▲ 53×1 topic
  39. rock fragmentation9▲ 53×1 topic
  40. Continental Margin9▲ 24×2 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?

The Bahamas has out-published the British Virgin Islands every year since 2024, when it overtook it.

still counting250500750Bahamas97 in 2025British Virgin Islands64 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 counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Bahamas0.0017% in 2025British Virgin Islands0.0011% 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%British Virgin Islands6.0% in 2025Bahamas4.6% 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.

Bahamas 05 level0 British Virgin Islands
  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, Bahamas or British Virgin Islands?

The British Virgin Islands publishes 2.3× as much research as the Bahamas in 2022-now (627 against 274 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Bahamas or British Virgin Islands?

6.8% of the Bahamas's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 2.1% for the British Virgin Islands.

Is Bahamas or British Virgin Islands growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +8% against 2018-21 for the Bahamas, and -68% for the British Virgin Islands.

Which has more open access research, Bahamas or British Virgin Islands?

50% of the Bahamas's research is free to read, against 4% of the British Virgin Islands's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Bahamas or British Virgin Islands?

The Bahamas holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and the British Virgin Islands 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%.

Bahamas

  1. 1College of The Bahamas8.4% top 10% · 129 works
  2. 2University of the West Indies4.2% top 10% · 114 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.

Bahamas

  1. 1 Adelle Thomas #127,384 worldwide 9.4k citations · 99 works
  2. 2 Tristan L. Guttridge #349,432 worldwide 3.1k citations · 85 works
  3. 3 Williamson Gustave #445,451 worldwide 2.1k citations · 108 works
  4. 4 Annabelle Brooks #573,232 worldwide 1.5k citations · 42 works
  5. 5 Edward J. Brooks #695,546 worldwide 1.9k citations · 68 works

British Virgin Islands

  1. 1 Oliver C. Mullins #391,740 worldwide 19k citations · 399 works
  2. 2 William E. Kenyon #708,981 worldwide 2.9k citations · 27 works
  3. 3 M. W. O’Keefe #928,836 worldwide 592 citations · 17 works
  4. 4 Christopher N. Fredd #1,017,027 worldwide 2.9k citations · 45 works
  5. 5 Marc J. Thiercelin #1,070,070 worldwide 3.2k citations · 71 works