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Bahrain vs Mauritius

On research quality in 2022-now, Bahrain ranks #124 in the world and Mauritius #126, of 189 countries. Bahrain stands higher in 6 of the 6 fields both publish in, Mauritius in 0.

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Bahrain

World rank, 2022-now
#124
#156 all time
Works, 2022-now
5.7k
fractional
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
46%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Accounting, Management Information Systems, Health Informatics.

Mauritius

World rank, 2022-now
#126
#143 all time
Works, 2022-now
1.7k
fractional
Top-10% rate
6.2%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
37%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Theoretical Computer Science, Computer Science Applications.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Bahrain leads on 7 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, open access, international co-authorship and growth. Mauritius leads on 1 of 9 measures: citations per work. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Bahrain 71 level1 Mauritius
  1. #124Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#126
  2. 0.81×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.77×
  3. 5.7kOutputfractional works, 2022-now1.7k
  4. 9.7%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.2%
  5. 11.0Citations per workall time, per fractional work13.5
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 46%Open accessof its works free to read, all time37%
  8. 35%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time26%
  9. +59%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+23%

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?

Bahrain stands higher in 6 of 6 fields, Mauritius in 0. Bahrain leads most in Social Sciences (#123 against #137). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Bahrain 60 Mauritius
  1. #74Business, Management and Accounting-
  2. #93Computer Science#102
  3. #81Economics, Econometrics and Finance-
  4. #101Engineering#111
  5. #117Medicine-
  6. #123Social Sciences#137

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 Bahrain rankMauritius rank Bahrain top 10%Mauritius top 10% Bahrain worksMauritius works
Business, Management and Accounting #74 - 14.0% - 615 -
Computer Science #93 #102 9.7% 5.6% 761 229
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #81 - 12.9% - 258 -
Engineering #101 #111 8.0% 3.6% 602 244
Medicine #117 - 7.1% - 1.3k -
Social Sciences #123 #137 10.1% 8.3% 723 242

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.

Bahrain

▲ 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. Machine Learning545▲ 2.5×92 topics
  2. Deep Learning336▲ 1.49×82 topics
  3. Supply Chain Management295▲ 5.0×24 topics
  4. Healthcare290▲ 3.9×25 topics
  5. Epidemiology279◆ 1.07×123 topics
  6. Sustainability279▲ 1.74×78 topics
  7. Artificial Intelligence235▲ 2.5×53 topics
  8. Big Data212▲ 3.4×32 topics
  9. Corporate Governance211▲ 4.4×26 topics
  10. Internet of Things208▲ 3.7×29 topics
  11. Risk Management182▲ 5.8×13 topics
  12. Renewable Energy181▲ 1.91×47 topics
  13. Digital Transformation163▲ 4.6×24 topics
  14. Smart Cities159▲ 9.2×8 topics
  15. IoT154▲ 6.3×18 topics
  16. Organizational Performance153▲ 9.0×9 topics
  17. Security140▲ 3.2×26 topics
  18. Customer Satisfaction133▲ 6.4×10 topics
  19. Social Capital128▲ 3.8×15 topics
  20. Knowledge Management125▲ 3.4×28 topics
  21. Entrepreneurship120▲ 4.6×15 topics
  22. Pedagogy115▲ 3.5×15 topics
  23. Finance110▲ 9.1×4 topics
  24. Financial Stability106▲ 8.4×5 topics
  25. Islamic Banking103▲ 4.2×3 topics
  26. Language Teaching99▲ 5.6×8 topics
  27. Performance Analysis98▲ 7.3×5 topics
  28. Global Financial Crisis96▲ 11×3 topics
  29. Ethical Identity95▲ 12×1 topic
  30. Shariah Supervision95▲ 12×1 topic
  31. Social Media Marketing95▲ 30×1 topic
  32. Critical Thinking92▲ 12×5 topics
  33. Teaching Methods88▲ 8.4×7 topics
  34. Tourism Development88▲ 9.8×2 topics
  35. Digital Education88▲ 9.0×5 topics
  36. Formative Assessment88▲ 16×2 topics
  37. Human Resource Management85▲ 8.4×5 topics
  38. Educational Technologies84▲ 14×2 topics
  39. Artistic Education83▲ 19×1 topic
  40. Student Competencies83▲ 19×1 topic

Mauritius

▲ 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. Machine Learning136▲ 2.2×75 topics
  2. Deep Learning131▲ 2.0×74 topics
  3. Sustainability89▲ 1.93×60 topics
  4. Renewable Energy82▲ 3.0×41 topics
  5. Climate Change79▲ 1.53×70 topics
  6. Environmental Impact57▲ 1.75×45 topics
  7. Economic Growth56▲ 3.6×23 topics
  8. Globalization54▲ 1.46×49 topics
  9. Internet of Things49▲ 3.0×19 topics
  10. Neural Networks48▲ 1.62×29 topics
  11. Sustainable Development45▲ 1.52×47 topics
  12. Economic Development43▲ 2.9×23 topics
  13. Artificial Intelligence43▲ 1.58×33 topics
  14. Supply Chain Management42▲ 2.5×20 topics
  15. Healthcare41▲ 1.88×21 topics
  16. Big Data38▲ 2.1×22 topics
  17. IoT37▲ 5.2×15 topics
  18. Energy Efficiency36▲ 2.0×25 topics
  19. Corporate Governance34▲ 2.4×20 topics
  20. Security33▲ 2.6×20 topics
  21. Consumer Behavior30▲ 2.5×13 topics
  22. Environmental Monitoring29▲ 3.9×12 topics
  23. Governance28▲ 4.5×12 topics
  24. Risk Management28▲ 3.1×12 topics
  25. Social Capital27▲ 2.8×12 topics
  26. Student Engagement24▲ 3.2×12 topics
  27. Wireless Sensor Networks24▲ 2.8×13 topics
  28. Image Processing24▲ 2.9×11 topics
  29. Solar Energy24▲ 4.0×5 topics
  30. Global Trade23▲ 6.2×6 topics
  31. Ocean Acidification23▲ 16×3 topics
  32. Regional Development22▲ 3.4×6 topics
  33. Smart Cities21▲ 4.2×7 topics
  34. Poverty Reduction21▲ 8.5×5 topics
  35. Forecasting21▲ 5.7×5 topics
  36. Firm Performance18▲ 5.3×2 topics
  37. Marine Ecosystems16▲ 15×2 topics
  38. Ethnic Diversity16▲ 13×3 topics
  39. Bleaching15▲ 24×1 topic
  40. Coral Reefs15▲ 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?

Bahrain has out-published Mauritius every year since 1982, when it overtook it.

still counting1k2kBahrain1,584 in 2025Mauritius396 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%Bahrain0.027% in 2025Mauritius0.0067% 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%15%Bahrain9.3% in 2025Mauritius7.4% 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.

Bahrain 05 level0 Mauritius
  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, Bahrain or Mauritius?

Bahrain publishes 3.4× as much research as Mauritius in 2022-now (5.7k against 1.7k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Bahrain or Mauritius?

9.7% of Bahrain's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.2% for Mauritius.

Is Bahrain or Mauritius growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +59% against 2018-21 for Bahrain, and +23% for Mauritius.

Which has more open access research, Bahrain or Mauritius?

46% of Bahrain's research is free to read, against 37% of Mauritius's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Bahrain or Mauritius?

Bahrain holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Mauritius 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%.

Bahrain

  1. 1Applied Science University14.1% top 10% · 533 works
  2. 2Kingdom University8.5% top 10% · 468 works
  3. 3University College of Bahrain7.5% top 10% · 592 works
  4. 4University of Bahrain8.5% top 10% · 1.4k works
  5. 5Ahlia University14.8% top 10% · 485 works
  6. 6Bahrain Polytechnic9.0% top 10% · 203 works

Mauritius

  1. 1University of Mauritius6.2% top 10% · 965 works
  2. 2University of Technology, Mauritius5.7% top 10% · 224 works
  3. 3Mahatma Gandhi Institute5.1% top 10% · 135 works
  4. 4Mauritius Institute of Education8.0% top 10% · 105 works
  5. 5Flex (Mauritius)6.9% top 10% · 61 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.

Bahrain

  1. 1 Randah R Hamadeh #16,228 worldwide 176k citations · 179 works
  2. 2 Abdalmuttaleb M. A. Musleh Al-Sartawi #23,470 worldwide 5.3k citations · 127 works
  3. 3 Amina Mohammed Buallay #30,646 worldwide 4.1k citations · 66 works
  4. 4 Nishad Nawaz #69,709 worldwide 2.8k citations · 156 works
  5. 5 Alexandra E. Butler #128,628 worldwide 20k citations · 347 works

Mauritius

  1. 1 Robin Nunkoo #53,731 worldwide 14k citations · 174 works
  2. 2 Cláudia Baider #288,426 worldwide 6.1k citations · 158 works
  3. 3 Vikash Tatayah #459,511 worldwide 1.8k citations · 105 works
  4. 4 Ackmez Mudhoo #474,044 worldwide 6.5k citations · 159 works
  5. 5 Viraiyan Teeroovengadum #542,767 worldwide 2.1k citations · 36 works