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Bangladesh vs Indonesia

On research quality in 2022-now, Indonesia ranks #37 in the world and Bangladesh #39, of 189 countries. Bangladesh stands higher in 17 of the 26 fields both publish in, Indonesia in 9.

Bangladesh

World rank, 2022-now
#39
#50 all time
Works, 2022-now
78k
fractional
Top-10% rate
18.5%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
62%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Drug Discovery, Aquatic Science, Health Information Management.

Indonesia

World rank, 2022-now
#37
#38 all time
Works, 2022-now
1.6M
fractional
Top-10% rate
7.2%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
86%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Human Factors and Ergonomics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Demography.

Who leads in each field?

Bangladesh stands higher in 17 of 26 fields, Indonesia in 9. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Bangladesh 179 Indonesia
  1. #29Agricultural and Biological Sciences#31
  2. #59Arts and Humanities#9
  3. #43Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#74
  4. #34Business, Management and Accounting#7
  5. -Chemical Engineering#31
  6. #22Chemistry#57
  7. #33Computer Science#19
  8. #29Decision Sciences#39
  9. #50Dentistry#57
  10. #36Earth and Planetary Sciences#46
  11. #31Economics, Econometrics and Finance#15
  12. #34Energy#65
  13. #26Engineering#54
  14. #26Environmental Science#45
  15. #28Health Professions#17
  16. #37Immunology and Microbiology#64
  17. #18Materials Science#49
  18. #48Mathematics#42
  19. #46Medicine#68
  20. #43Neuroscience#67
  21. #23Nursing#32
  22. #28Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#32
  23. #32Physics and Astronomy#64
  24. #34Psychology#57
  25. #42Social Sciences#3
  26. -Veterinary#27

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.

How has their output grown?

200k400k600kIndonesia417k in 2025Bangladesh24k in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works per year. The latest, partial year is left off.

Which publishes more research, Bangladesh or Indonesia?

Indonesia publishes 20.3× as much research as Bangladesh in 2022-now (1.6M against 78k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Bangladesh or Indonesia?

18.5% of Bangladesh's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 7.2% for Indonesia.

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%.

Bangladesh

  1. 1University of Dhaka20.1% top 10% · 4.7k works
  2. 2Daffodil International University28.0% top 10% · 1.9k works
  3. 3University of Rajshahi19.6% top 10% · 2.4k works
  4. 4Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology18.5% top 10% · 2.9k works
  5. 5Islamic University13.2% top 10% · 3.4k works
  6. 6Southeast University17.9% top 10% · 2.2k works

Indonesia

  1. 1Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bengkulu10.3% top 10% · 29k works
  2. 2Institut Sains dan Teknologi Terpadu Surabaya10.7% top 10% · 5.7k works
  3. 3Padjadjaran University9.7% top 10% · 17k works
  4. 4State University of Padang9.1% top 10% · 22k works
  5. 5Indonesia University of Education12.5% top 10% · 21k works
  6. 6Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University Yogyakarta11.7% top 10% · 10k 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, 16.5% (why not 10%): 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.

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