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Barbados vs Curaçao

On research quality in 2022-now, Curaçao ranks #167 in the world and Barbados #179, of 189 countries. Barbados stands higher in 1 of the 1 fields both publish in, Curaçao in 0.

Research profiles alike: 0.73very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured

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Barbados

World rank, 2022-now
#179
#181 all time
Works, 2022-now
622
fractional
Top-10% rate
6.3%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
36%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Virology, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Family Practice.

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

Barbados 12 level6 Curaçao
  1. #179Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#167
  2. 0.78×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.89×
  3. 622Outputfractional works, 2022-now372
  4. 6.3%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.7%
  5. 18.4Citations per workall time, per fractional work19.0
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 36%Open accessof its works free to read, all time48%
  8. 41%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time57%
  9. +27%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.

Who leads in each field?

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

Barbados 10 Curaçao
  1. #128Medicine-

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 Barbados rankCuraçao rank Barbados top 10%Curaçao top 10% Barbados worksCuraçao works
Medicine #128 - 5.6% - 212 -

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.

Barbados

▲ 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. Epidemiology57▲ 2.0×113 topics
  2. Climate Change28▲ 1.49×60 topics
  3. Public Health27▲ 2.7×47 topics
  4. Globalization27▲ 1.96×45 topics
  5. Sustainability26▲ 1.50×40 topics
  6. Mental Health20▲ 1.99×30 topics
  7. Inflammation18▲ 1.19×57 topics
  8. Treatment18▲ 2.1×44 topics
  9. COVID-1918▲ 1.93×23 topics
  10. Diagnosis17▲ 2.6×39 topics
  11. Risk Factors16▲ 2.1×30 topics
  12. Quality of Life16▲ 1.59×46 topics
  13. Vulnerability15▲ 9.3×8 topics
  14. Diabetes15▲ 4.2×16 topics
  15. Identity14▲ 2.9×18 topics
  16. Cardiovascular Disease14▲ 1.71×31 topics
  17. Depression13▲ 2.2×17 topics
  18. Pandemic13▲ 1.93×11 topics
  19. Gender13▲ 3.5×18 topics
  20. Obesity12▲ 2.3×20 topics
  21. Management12▲ 2.2×28 topics
  22. Culture12▲ 3.3×12 topics
  23. Postcolonialism12▲ 12×7 topics
  24. Health Education12▲ 3.8×8 topics
  25. Non-Communicable Diseases11▲ 5.9×3 topics
  26. Maternal Mortality11▲ 7.1×5 topics
  27. Resilience11▲ 3.2×11 topics
  28. Global Burden10▲ 2.7×11 topics
  29. Pathogenesis10▲ 2.9×23 topics
  30. Infectious Diseases9▲ 4.0×7 topics
  31. Primary Care9▲ 3.5×12 topics
  32. Vaccine Development9▲ 5.0×10 topics
  33. Governance9▲ 3.9×6 topics
  34. Race8▲ 10×8 topics
  35. Decolonization8▲ 14×5 topics
  36. Politics8▲ 4.4×7 topics
  37. Global Trade8▲ 5.7×6 topics
  38. Chronic Disease8▲ 6.3×4 topics
  39. Ocean Acidification7▲ 13×3 topics
  40. Caribbean7▲ 54×3 topics

Curaçao

▲ 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. Epidemiology46▲ 2.8×110 topics
  2. Treatment20▲ 4.0×42 topics
  3. Diagnosis20▲ 5.0×34 topics
  4. Inflammation15▲ 1.67×56 topics
  5. Climate Change13◆ 1.10×29 topics
  6. Public Health12▲ 2.0×36 topics
  7. Quality of Life12▲ 1.91×40 topics
  8. Community Empowerment11▲ 3.7×8 topics
  9. Management10▲ 2.9×24 topics
  10. Cardiovascular Disease9▲ 1.96×30 topics
  11. Risk Factors9▲ 2.0×24 topics
  12. Qualitative Research9▲ 2.5×12 topics
  13. Patient Satisfaction9▲ 6.7×9 topics
  14. Metabolic Syndrome9▲ 2.5×19 topics
  15. Obesity8▲ 2.6×17 topics
  16. Public Health Policy8▲ 7.6×3 topics
  17. Complications8▲ 3.9×17 topics
  18. Genetics8▲ 2.7×16 topics
  19. Health Education8▲ 4.2×6 topics
  20. Guidelines8▲ 3.9×12 topics
  21. Surgical Management8▲ 4.4×18 topics
  22. Pathogenesis7▲ 3.5×19 topics
  23. Non-Communicable Diseases7▲ 6.0×4 topics
  24. Maternal Health7▲ 6.1×3 topics
  25. Breastfeeding6▲ 6.6×2 topics
  26. Ocean Acidification6▲ 20×3 topics
  27. Youth Development6▲ 16×2 topics
  28. Child Nutrition6▲ 7.9×1 topic
  29. Stunting6▲ 7.9×1 topic
  30. Christian Education6▲ 63×1 topic
  31. Church Leadership6▲ 63×1 topic
  32. Healthcare Access5▲ 4.6×4 topics
  33. Patient Experience5▲ 12×3 topics
  34. Research Methods5▲ 7.6×4 topics
  35. Marine Ecosystems5▲ 20×2 topics
  36. Quantitative Research5▲ 8.6×3 topics
  37. Organizational Behavior4▲ 7.0×2 topics
  38. Barriers4▲ 13×2 topics
  39. Nursing Performance4▲ 16×1 topic
  40. 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?

Barbados has out-published Curaçao every year since 1991, when it overtook it.

still counting100200Barbados157 in 2025Curaçao75 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 counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Barbados0.0027% in 2025Curaçao0.0013% 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%30%Curaçao7.2% in 2025Barbados6.3% 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.

Barbados 05 level0 Curaçao
  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, Barbados or Curaçao?

Barbados publishes 1.7× as much research as Curaçao in 2022-now (622 against 372 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Barbados or Curaçao?

6.7% of Curaçao's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.3% for Barbados.

Is Barbados or Curaçao growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +72% against 2018-21 for Curaçao, and +27% for Barbados.

Which has more open access research, Barbados or Curaçao?

48% of Curaçao's research is free to read, against 36% of Barbados's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Barbados or Curaçao?

Barbados 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%.

Barbados

  1. 1University of the West Indies5.7% top 10% · 307 works
  2. 2Ross University School of Medicine4.5% top 10% · 141 works
  3. 3Ministry of Health10.1% top 10% · 68 works

Curaçao

  1. 1University of Curaçao6.1% top 10% · 101 works
  2. 2St. Elisabeth Hospital6.1% top 10% · 82 works
  3. 3St. Martinus University1.9% top 10% · 76 works
  4. 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.

Barbados

  1. 1 Anselm J. M. Hennis #269,326 worldwide 5.5k citations · 141 works
  2. 2 David Farrell #278,464 worldwide 2.7k citations · 98 works
  3. 3 Roché Mahon #483,598 worldwide 1.1k citations · 36 works
  4. 4 Nkemcho O. Ojeh #680,211 worldwide 2.7k citations · 56 works
  5. 5 Ian Richard Hambleton #817,897 worldwide 35k citations · 263 works

Curaçao

  1. 1 Mark J. A. Vermeij #98,219 worldwide 8.3k citations · 186 works
  2. 2 Kristen L. Marhaver #440,819 worldwide 1.6k citations · 50 works
  3. 3 Valérie F. Chamberland #459,691 worldwide 903 citations · 30 works
  4. 4 Kelly R. W. Latijnhouwers #660,279 worldwide 588 citations · 24 works
  5. 5 Ashley John Duits #1,493,604 worldwide 3.8k citations · 134 works