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.
Curaçao
- World rank, 2022-now
- #167
- #142 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 372
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 6.7%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 48%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Religious studies, Internal Medicine, Virology.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Curaçao leads on 5 of 9 measures: research quality, output, citations per work, international co-authorship and growth. The Bahamas leads on 1 of 9 measures: excellence for its fields. The two are level on top-10% rate, institutions in the world top 100 and open access.
- #169Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#167
- 0.93×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.89×
- 274Outputfractional works, 2022-now372
- 6.8%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.7%
- 9.4Citations per workall time, per fractional work19.0
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 50%Open accessof its works free to read, all time48%
- 36%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time57%
- +8%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+72%
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.
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
- Small States
- General Relativity
- Sharks
- Phylogeny
- Tropical Cyclones
- Ecology
- Decolonization
- Quantum Gravity
- Academic Dishonesty
- Sea-Level Rise
- Fisheries Sustainability
- Adaptation
- Migration
- Population Dynamics
- Sustainability
- Politics
- Race
- Postcolonialism
- Gender
- Globalization
- Climate Change
- Identity
- Culture
- Nationalism
- Caribbean
- Dancehall
- Conservation
- Vulnerability
- Marine Ecosystems
- Global Warming
- COVID-19 Impact
- Cultural Competence
- Plagiarism
- Vocational Education
- Pacific
- Fisheries
- Dark Energy
- Rays
- Contamination
- Islands
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Climate Change28▲ 3.4×47 topics
- Globalization25▲ 4.1×30 topics
- Identity17▲ 7.5×12 topics
- Gender16▲ 9.9×13 topics
- Culture15▲ 9.4×7 topics
- Postcolonialism14▲ 32×6 topics
- Nationalism14▲ 9.8×5 topics
- Race14▲ 37×5 topics
- Caribbean13▲ 229×3 topics
- Politics12▲ 15×4 topics
- Dancehall12▲ 521×1 topic
- Sustainability10▲ 1.41×26 topics
- Conservation9▲ 6.8×9 topics
- Population Dynamics8▲ 11×10 topics
- Vulnerability8▲ 12×5 topics
- Migration7▲ 6.9×5 topics
- Marine Ecosystems6▲ 34×2 topics
- Adaptation6▲ 6.2×7 topics
- Global Warming6▲ 4.3×8 topics
- Fisheries Sustainability5▲ 18×2 topics
- COVID-19 Impact4▲ 8.2×4 topics
- Sea-Level Rise4▲ 12×4 topics
- Cultural Competence4▲ 11×5 topics
- Academic Dishonesty4▲ 92×1 topic
- Plagiarism4▲ 92×1 topic
- Quantum Gravity4▲ 16×4 topics
- Vocational Education4▲ 15×2 topics
- Decolonization4▲ 15×2 topics
- Pacific4▲ 65×2 topics
- Ecology4▲ 7.1×3 topics
- Fisheries4▲ 28×2 topics
- Tropical Cyclones4▲ 21×2 topics
- Dark Energy4▲ 18×2 topics
- Phylogeny4▲ 7.1×3 topics
- Rays4▲ 52×1 topic
- Sharks4▲ 52×1 topic
- Contamination4▲ 13×3 topics
- General Relativity4▲ 17×2 topics
- Islands4▲ 101×1 topic
- Small States4▲ 101×1 topic
Curaçao
- Quality of Service
- Barriers
- Quantitative Research
- Research Methods
- Healthcare Access
- Christian Education
- Child Nutrition
- Ocean Acidification
- Maternal Health
- Pathogenesis
- Guidelines
- Genetics
- Public Health Policy
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Qualitative Research
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Community Empowerment
- Public Health
- Inflammation
- Treatment
- Epidemiology
- Diagnosis
- Climate Change
- Quality of Life
- Management
- Risk Factors
- Patient Satisfaction
- Obesity
- Complications
- Health Education
- Surgical Management
- Non-Communicable Diseases
- Breastfeeding
- Youth Development
- Stunting
- Church Leadership
- Patient Experience
- Marine Ecosystems
- Organizational Behavior
- Nursing Performance
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology46▲ 2.8×110 topics
- Treatment20▲ 4.0×42 topics
- Diagnosis20▲ 5.0×34 topics
- Inflammation15▲ 1.67×56 topics
- Climate Change13◆ 1.10×29 topics
- Public Health12▲ 2.0×36 topics
- Quality of Life12▲ 1.91×40 topics
- Community Empowerment11▲ 3.7×8 topics
- Management10▲ 2.9×24 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease9▲ 1.96×30 topics
- Risk Factors9▲ 2.0×24 topics
- Qualitative Research9▲ 2.5×12 topics
- Patient Satisfaction9▲ 6.7×9 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome9▲ 2.5×19 topics
- Obesity8▲ 2.6×17 topics
- Public Health Policy8▲ 7.6×3 topics
- Complications8▲ 3.9×17 topics
- Genetics8▲ 2.7×16 topics
- Health Education8▲ 4.2×6 topics
- Guidelines8▲ 3.9×12 topics
- Surgical Management8▲ 4.4×18 topics
- Pathogenesis7▲ 3.5×19 topics
- Non-Communicable Diseases7▲ 6.0×4 topics
- Maternal Health7▲ 6.1×3 topics
- Breastfeeding6▲ 6.6×2 topics
- Ocean Acidification6▲ 20×3 topics
- Youth Development6▲ 16×2 topics
- Child Nutrition6▲ 7.9×1 topic
- Stunting6▲ 7.9×1 topic
- Christian Education6▲ 63×1 topic
- Church Leadership6▲ 63×1 topic
- Healthcare Access5▲ 4.6×4 topics
- Patient Experience5▲ 12×3 topics
- Research Methods5▲ 7.6×4 topics
- Marine Ecosystems5▲ 20×2 topics
- Quantitative Research5▲ 8.6×3 topics
- Organizational Behavior4▲ 7.0×2 topics
- Barriers4▲ 13×2 topics
- Nursing Performance4▲ 16×1 topic
- Quality of Service4▲ 10×1 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?
The Bahamas has out-published Curaçao every year since 2025, when it overtook it.
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.
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%).
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.
- 0In the world top 500
- 0In the top 1000
- 0In the top 5000
- 0In the top 1,0000
- #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 Curaçao?
Curaçao publishes 1.4× as much research as the Bahamas in 2022-now (372 against 274 fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Bahamas or Curaçao?
6.8% of the Bahamas's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.7% for Curaçao.
Is Bahamas or Curaçao growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +72% against 2018-21 for Curaçao, and +8% for the Bahamas.
Which has more open access research, Bahamas or Curaçao?
50% of the Bahamas's research is free to read, against 48% of Curaçao's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Bahamas or Curaçao?
The Bahamas holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Curaçao 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
- 1College of The Bahamas8.4% top 10% · 129 works
- 2University of the West Indies4.2% top 10% · 114 works
Curaçao
- 1University of Curaçao6.1% top 10% · 101 works
- 2St. Elisabeth Hospital6.1% top 10% · 82 works
- 3St. Martinus University1.9% top 10% · 76 works
- 4Avalon University School of Medicine10.1% top 10% · 76 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 Adelle Thomas #127,384 worldwide 9.4k citations · 99 works
- 2 Tristan L. Guttridge #349,432 worldwide 3.1k citations · 85 works
- 3 Williamson Gustave #445,451 worldwide 2.1k citations · 108 works
- 4 Annabelle Brooks #573,232 worldwide 1.5k citations · 42 works
- 5 Edward J. Brooks #695,546 worldwide 1.9k citations · 68 works
Curaçao
- 1 Mark J. A. Vermeij #98,219 worldwide 8.3k citations · 186 works
- 2 Kristen L. Marhaver #440,819 worldwide 1.6k citations · 50 works
- 3 Valérie F. Chamberland #459,691 worldwide 903 citations · 30 works
- 4 Kelly R. W. Latijnhouwers #660,279 worldwide 588 citations · 24 works
- 5 Ashley John Duits #1,493,604 worldwide 3.8k citations · 134 works