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On research quality in 2022-now, Bangladesh ranks #40 in the world and Mexico #42, of 189 countries. Bangladesh stands higher in 16 of the 26 fields both publish in, Mexico in 10.

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Bangladesh

World rank, 2022-now
#40
#50 all time
Works, 2022-now
78k
fractional
Top-10% rate
10.1%
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.

Mexico

World rank, 2022-now
#42
#39 all time
Works, 2022-now
177k
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.9%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
52%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: General Social Sciences, Life-span and Life-course Studies, Development.

Who leads, measure by measure?

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

Bangladesh 71 level1 Mexico
  1. #40Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#42
  2. 0.90×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.61×
  3. 78kOutputfractional works, 2022-now177k
  4. 10.1%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.9%
  5. 10.3Citations per workall time, per fractional work9.1
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 62%Open accessof its works free to read, all time52%
  8. 28%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time19%
  9. +56%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+11%

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?

Bangladesh stands higher in 16 of 26 fields, Mexico in 10. Bangladesh leads most in Decision Sciences (#39 against #55); Mexico leads most in Arts and Humanities (#38 against #56). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Bangladesh 1610 Mexico
  1. #38Agricultural and Biological Sciences#36
  2. #56Arts and Humanities#38
  3. #44Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#43
  4. #43Business, Management and Accounting#48
  5. -Chemical Engineering#39
  6. #29Chemistry#43
  7. #39Computer Science#43
  8. #39Decision Sciences#55
  9. #48Dentistry#41
  10. #31Earth and Planetary Sciences#43
  11. #43Economics, Econometrics and Finance#49
  12. #42Energy#49
  13. #40Engineering#50
  14. #31Environmental Science#37
  15. #39Health Professions#41
  16. #47Immunology and Microbiology#48
  17. #31Materials Science#48
  18. #48Mathematics#47
  19. #59Medicine#42
  20. #47Neuroscience#36
  21. #38Nursing#48
  22. #30Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#32
  23. #45Physics and Astronomy#46
  24. #39Psychology#45
  25. #49Social Sciences#35
  26. -Veterinary#23

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 Bangladesh rankMexico rank Bangladesh top 10%Mexico top 10% Bangladesh worksMexico works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #38 #36 10.4% 6.6% 7.3k 17k
Arts and Humanities #56 #38 10.3% 7.8% 1.1k 6.8k
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #44 #43 8.3% 5.7% 3.1k 8.6k
Business, Management and Accounting #43 #48 14.0% 6.3% 3.2k 5.2k
Chemical Engineering - #39 - 3.1% - 438
Chemistry #29 #43 14.1% 5.2% 903 2.2k
Computer Science #39 #43 9.2% 6.2% 7.8k 10k
Decision Sciences #39 #55 12.6% 6.1% 784 939
Dentistry #48 #41 6.8% 4.5% 254 815
Earth and Planetary Sciences #31 #43 11.2% 4.7% 663 2.7k
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #43 #49 11.8% 6.1% 2.2k 5.2k
Energy #42 #49 11.1% 4.4% 920 1.7k
Engineering #40 #50 10.2% 4.6% 11k 15k
Environmental Science #31 #37 11.6% 5.8% 5.3k 12k
Health Professions #39 #41 12.5% 6.0% 1.9k 5.6k
Immunology and Microbiology #47 #48 9.3% 5.8% 708 1.7k
Materials Science #31 #48 13.7% 3.7% 2.9k 5k
Mathematics #48 #47 13.3% 6.7% 596 1.8k
Medicine #59 #42 6.7% 4.9% 14k 29k
Neuroscience #47 #36 8.5% 5.9% 908 2.2k
Nursing #38 #48 9.6% 5.9% 785 1.2k
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics #30 #32 11.5% 6.2% 334 604
Physics and Astronomy #45 #46 13.3% 4.5% 962 3.2k
Psychology #39 #45 10.2% 5.4% 1.9k 5.8k
Social Sciences #49 #35 11.0% 7.4% 7.7k 32k
Veterinary - #23 - 6.2% - 338

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.

Bangladesh

▲ 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. Deep Learning6,470▲ 2.1×84 topics
  2. Machine Learning6,042▲ 2.0×97 topics
  3. Epidemiology4,297▲ 1.19×140 topics
  4. Climate Change3,359▲ 1.36×122 topics
  5. Sustainability3,334▲ 1.50×126 topics
  6. Environmental Impact2,779▲ 1.79×71 topics
  7. COVID-192,213▲ 1.88×34 topics
  8. Renewable Energy2,149▲ 1.64×60 topics
  9. Neural Networks1,956▲ 1.40×41 topics
  10. Convolutional Neural Networks1,819▲ 2.8×14 topics
  11. Healthcare1,796▲ 1.73×41 topics
  12. Globalization1,678◆ 0.94×162 topics
  13. Pandemic1,667▲ 1.85×14 topics
  14. Social Media1,622▲ 1.29×40 topics
  15. Oxidative Stress1,576◆ 1.06×63 topics
  16. Artificial Intelligence1,554▲ 1.20×61 topics
  17. Food Security1,414▲ 2.9×24 topics
  18. Remote Sensing1,411▲ 1.27×41 topics
  19. Cardiovascular Disease1,385▲ 1.34×39 topics
  20. Human Rights1,326▲ 1.43×79 topics
  21. Internet of Things1,190▲ 1.53×32 topics
  22. Data Mining1,084▲ 1.63×25 topics
  23. Medical Imaging1,079▲ 2.3×9 topics
  24. Security1,077▲ 1.77×31 topics
  25. Image Processing1,031▲ 2.6×14 topics
  26. Consumer Behavior1,030▲ 1.82×18 topics
  27. Risk Management1,014▲ 2.4×18 topics
  28. Feature Extraction1,012▲ 2.5×10 topics
  29. Genetic Diversity976▲ 2.5×22 topics
  30. IoT931▲ 2.7×19 topics
  31. Heat Transfer928▲ 2.1×20 topics
  32. Environmental Monitoring913▲ 2.6×18 topics
  33. Wireless Sensor Networks894▲ 2.2×23 topics
  34. Agriculture875▲ 2.5×17 topics
  35. Aquaculture796▲ 3.4×8 topics
  36. Vulnerability754▲ 3.6×8 topics
  37. Transfer Learning658▲ 3.8×3 topics
  38. Water Management652▲ 5.7×8 topics
  39. Smart Farming560▲ 5.3×2 topics
  40. Bangladesh507▲ 27×3 topics

Mexico

▲ 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. Education10k▲ 3.0×158 topics
  2. Sustainability10k▲ 2.1×137 topics
  3. Climate Change9,399▲ 1.70×130 topics
  4. Globalization8,952▲ 2.2×184 topics
  5. Epidemiology8,618◆ 1.06×140 topics
  6. Public Health6,974▲ 2.4×77 topics
  7. Innovation6,048▲ 2.9×90 topics
  8. Environmental Impact5,303▲ 1.52×72 topics
  9. Mental Health4,976▲ 1.71×48 topics
  10. Nutrition4,708▲ 5.2×19 topics
  11. Urban Development4,611▲ 6.4×21 topics
  12. COVID-194,573▲ 1.73×34 topics
  13. Latin America4,530▲ 12×23 topics
  14. Knowledge Management4,360▲ 3.9×42 topics
  15. Digital Marketing4,170▲ 5.3×6 topics
  16. Biodiversity4,105▲ 2.6×38 topics
  17. Human Rights4,091▲ 1.96×88 topics
  18. E-Learning3,984▲ 2.0×26 topics
  19. Health Promotion3,790▲ 5.9×18 topics
  20. Pedagogy3,573▲ 3.5×30 topics
  21. Small and Medium Enterprises3,547▲ 9.8×10 topics
  22. Community Participation3,536▲ 4.9×16 topics
  23. Teacher Training3,484▲ 2.8×30 topics
  24. Social Responsibility3,335▲ 7.1×14 topics
  25. Rural Development3,303▲ 4.7×23 topics
  26. Public Policy3,248▲ 3.4×31 topics
  27. Cultural Heritage3,182▲ 2.9×40 topics
  28. Innovation Ecosystems3,120▲ 15×4 topics
  29. Social Movements3,068▲ 5.1×33 topics
  30. Distance Learning3,050▲ 4.3×14 topics
  31. Communication2,849▲ 4.4×25 topics
  32. Globalization Effects2,796▲ 20×3 topics
  33. Tourism Management2,782▲ 20×2 topics
  34. City Branding2,776▲ 22×1 topic
  35. Psychopharmacology Education2,776▲ 22×1 topic
  36. Competitiveness2,753▲ 17×8 topics
  37. Sustainable Agriculture2,672▲ 4.2×18 topics
  38. University Students2,195▲ 19×2 topics
  39. ICT2,041▲ 7.5×5 topics
  40. Digital Competence2,021▲ 11×4 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?

Mexico has out-published Bangladesh every year since 1980.

still counting20k40k60kMexico49k in 2025Bangladesh24k 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 counting1.0%2.0%Mexico0.82% in 2025Bangladesh0.41% 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%Bangladesh9.9% in 2025Mexico6.1% 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.

Bangladesh 14 level0 Mexico
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 0In the top 5000
  4. 1In the top 1,0001
  5. #47Elite capacityrank among 204 countries#50

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, Bangladesh or Mexico?

Mexico publishes 2.3× as much research as Bangladesh in 2022-now (177k against 78k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Bangladesh or Mexico?

10.1% of Bangladesh's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.9% for Mexico.

Is Bangladesh or Mexico growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +56% against 2018-21 for Bangladesh, and +11% for Mexico.

Which has more open access research, Bangladesh or Mexico?

62% of Bangladesh's research is free to read, against 52% of Mexico's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Bangladesh or Mexico?

Bangladesh holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Mexico 0; in the top 1,000 it is 1 against 1.

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. 1Southeast University8.5% top 10% · 2.2k works
  2. 2Ministry of Education15.0% top 10% · 829 works
  3. 3Islamic University9.3% top 10% · 3.4k works
  4. 4Daffodil International University13.7% top 10% · 1.9k works
  5. 5International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research14.1% top 10% · 610 works
  6. 6North South University11.9% top 10% · 1.4k works

Mexico

  1. 1Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México6.0% top 10% · 21k works
  2. 2Universidad del Noreste6.8% top 10% · 1.9k works
  3. 3Tecnológico de Monterrey11.7% top 10% · 5.5k works
  4. 4Universidad Internacional9.1% top 10% · 1.2k works
  5. 5Ibero American University7.6% top 10% · 1.5k works
  6. 6Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Xalapa6.2% top 10% · 1.3k 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.

Bangladesh

  1. 1 Muntasir Murshed #1,487 worldwide 19k citations · 244 works
  2. 2 Mozammel Mia #4,564 worldwide 12k citations · 171 works
  3. 3 Mosiur Rahman #7,232 worldwide 64k citations · 222 works
  4. 4 Md Nuruzzaman Khan #7,524 worldwide 43k citations · 266 works
  5. 5 Md. Abdul Moktadir #8,531 worldwide 8k citations · 105 works

Mexico

  1. 1 I. Maldonado Cervantes #1,124 worldwide 25k citations · 196 works
  2. 2 Mostafa Hajiaghaei–Keshteli #1,732 worldwide 11k citations · 222 works
  3. 3 Matthew Paul Reynolds #3,407 worldwide 42k citations · 465 works
  4. 4 Ismael Campos‐Nonato #4,620 worldwide 168k citations · 131 works
  5. 5 Daniel Díaz #7,158 worldwide 127k citations · 198 works

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