Barbados vs Syria
On research quality in 2022-now, Syria ranks #176 in the world and Barbados #179, of 189 countries. Barbados stands higher in 1 of the 7 fields both publish in, Syria in 6.
Research profiles alike: 0.38somewhat alike 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.
Syria
- World rank, 2022-now
- #176
- #180 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 5.4k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 6.7%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 70%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Orthodontics, Oral Surgery, Complementary and Manual Therapy.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Syria leads on 5 of 9 measures: research quality, output, top-10% rate, open access and growth. Barbados leads on 3 of 9 measures: excellence for its fields, citations per work and international co-authorship. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.
- #179Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#176
- 0.78×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.65×
- 622Outputfractional works, 2022-now5.4k
- 6.3%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.7%
- 18.4Citations per workall time, per fractional work9.9
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 36%Open accessof its works free to read, all time70%
- 41%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time22%
- +27%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+68%
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 7 fields, Syria in 6. Barbados leads most in Medicine (#128 against #146). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#121
- -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#98
- -Computer Science#127
- -Dentistry#47
- -Engineering#128
- #128Medicine#146
- -Social Sciences#145
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 rank | Syria rank | Barbados top 10% | Syria top 10% | Barbados works | Syria works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | - | #121 | - | 6.2% | - | 356 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | - | #98 | - | 5.8% | - | 306 |
| Computer Science | - | #127 | - | 7.3% | - | 258 |
| Dentistry | - | #47 | - | 12.0% | - | 307 |
| Engineering | - | #128 | - | 5.8% | - | 496 |
| Medicine | #128 | #146 | 5.6% | 5.4% | 212 | 2k |
| Social Sciences | - | #145 | - | 6.1% | - | 380 |
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
- Caribbean
- Chronic Disease
- Politics
- Race
- Vaccine Development
- Infectious Diseases
- Global Burden
- Maternal Mortality
- Health Education
- Culture
- Obesity
- Pandemic
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Diabetes
- Quality of Life
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Mental Health
- Globalization
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Public Health
- Sustainability
- Inflammation
- COVID-19
- Risk Factors
- Vulnerability
- Identity
- Depression
- Gender
- Management
- Postcolonialism
- Non-Communicable Diseases
- Resilience
- Pathogenesis
- Primary Care
- Governance
- Decolonization
- Global Trade
- Ocean Acidification
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology57▲ 2.0×113 topics
- Climate Change28▲ 1.49×60 topics
- Public Health27▲ 2.7×47 topics
- Globalization27▲ 1.96×45 topics
- Sustainability26▲ 1.50×40 topics
- Mental Health20▲ 1.99×30 topics
- Inflammation18▲ 1.19×57 topics
- Treatment18▲ 2.1×44 topics
- COVID-1918▲ 1.93×23 topics
- Diagnosis17▲ 2.6×39 topics
- Risk Factors16▲ 2.1×30 topics
- Quality of Life16▲ 1.59×46 topics
- Vulnerability15▲ 9.3×8 topics
- Diabetes15▲ 4.2×16 topics
- Identity14▲ 2.9×18 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease14▲ 1.71×31 topics
- Depression13▲ 2.2×17 topics
- Pandemic13▲ 1.93×11 topics
- Gender13▲ 3.5×18 topics
- Obesity12▲ 2.3×20 topics
- Management12▲ 2.2×28 topics
- Culture12▲ 3.3×12 topics
- Postcolonialism12▲ 12×7 topics
- Health Education12▲ 3.8×8 topics
- Non-Communicable Diseases11▲ 5.9×3 topics
- Maternal Mortality11▲ 7.1×5 topics
- Resilience11▲ 3.2×11 topics
- Global Burden10▲ 2.7×11 topics
- Pathogenesis10▲ 2.9×23 topics
- Infectious Diseases9▲ 4.0×7 topics
- Primary Care9▲ 3.5×12 topics
- Vaccine Development9▲ 5.0×10 topics
- Governance9▲ 3.9×6 topics
- Race8▲ 10×8 topics
- Decolonization8▲ 14×5 topics
- Politics8▲ 4.4×7 topics
- Global Trade8▲ 5.7×6 topics
- Chronic Disease8▲ 6.3×4 topics
- Ocean Acidification7▲ 13×3 topics
- Caribbean7▲ 54×3 topics
Syria
- Fetal Surgery
- Mineral Trioxide Aggregate
- Dental Materials
- Malay Language
- Psychological Factors
- Islam
- Dental Esthetics
- Prenatal Diagnosis
- Diagnostic Criteria
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Genetic Mutations
- Genetics
- Clinical Trials
- Chemotherapy
- Risk Factors
- Oxidative Stress
- Surgical Management
- Deep Learning
- Inflammation
- Quality of Life
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Treatment
- Diagnosis
- Management
- Artificial Intelligence
- COVID-19
- Prognostic Factors
- Complications
- Antioxidant
- Pathogenesis
- Wound Healing
- Science
- Orthognathic Surgery
- Orthodontic Tooth Movement
- Social Influence
- Sharia Law
- Revascularization
- Restorative Dentistry
- Root Canal Irrigants
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology519▲ 1.95×130 topics
- Quality of Life243▲ 2.5×54 topics
- Machine Learning238◆ 1.07×80 topics
- Inflammation207▲ 1.46×81 topics
- Treatment200▲ 2.5×48 topics
- Deep Learning193▼ 0.84×72 topics
- Diagnosis184▲ 3.0×41 topics
- Surgical Management135▲ 5.0×20 topics
- Management132▲ 2.5×36 topics
- Oxidative Stress123◆ 1.12×58 topics
- Artificial Intelligence115▲ 1.21×45 topics
- Risk Factors114▲ 1.55×35 topics
- COVID-19109▲ 1.26×29 topics
- Chemotherapy108▲ 2.3×24 topics
- Prognostic Factors101▲ 3.5×14 topics
- Clinical Trials101▲ 2.3×18 topics
- Complications100▲ 3.0×17 topics
- Genetics97▲ 2.1×24 topics
- Antioxidant93▲ 2.0×51 topics
- Genetic Mutations81▲ 2.8×23 topics
- Pathogenesis79▲ 2.3×24 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines79▲ 2.1×14 topics
- Wound Healing70▲ 3.9×12 topics
- Diagnostic Criteria68▲ 4.4×10 topics
- Science66▲ 4.0×4 topics
- Prenatal Diagnosis65▲ 6.7×7 topics
- Orthognathic Surgery63▲ 18×2 topics
- Dental Esthetics61▲ 24×1 topic
- Orthodontic Tooth Movement61▲ 24×1 topic
- Islam61▲ 4.4×4 topics
- Social Influence61▲ 4.3×3 topics
- Psychological Factors59▲ 4.3×5 topics
- Sharia Law59▲ 6.2×2 topics
- Malay Language58▲ 6.2×1 topic
- Revascularization58▲ 5.5×4 topics
- Dental Materials54▲ 15×1 topic
- Restorative Dentistry54▲ 15×1 topic
- Mineral Trioxide Aggregate43▲ 17×1 topic
- Root Canal Irrigants43▲ 17×1 topic
- Fetal Surgery43▲ 12×3 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?
Syria has out-published Barbados every year since 1988, 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, Barbados or Syria?
Syria publishes 8.7× as much research as Barbados in 2022-now (5.4k against 622 fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Barbados or Syria?
6.7% of Syria's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.3% for Barbados.
Is Barbados or Syria growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +68% against 2018-21 for Syria, and +27% for Barbados.
Which has more open access research, Barbados or Syria?
70% of Syria's research is free to read, against 36% of Barbados's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Barbados or Syria?
Barbados holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Syria 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
- 1University of the West Indies5.7% top 10% · 307 works
- 2Ross University School of Medicine4.5% top 10% · 141 works
- 3Ministry of Health10.1% top 10% · 68 works
Syria
- 1Arab International University3.1% top 10% · 391 works
- 2Damascus University8.4% top 10% · 1.7k works
- 3University of Aleppo6.5% top 10% · 645 works
- 4Al Wataniya Private University3.1% top 10% · 166 works
- 5Homs University6.5% top 10% · 197 works
- 6Syrian Private University11.3% top 10% · 250 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 Anselm J. M. Hennis #269,326 worldwide 5.5k citations · 141 works
- 2 David Farrell #278,464 worldwide 2.7k citations · 98 works
- 3 Roché Mahon #483,598 worldwide 1.1k citations · 36 works
- 4 Nkemcho O. Ojeh #680,211 worldwide 2.7k citations · 56 works
- 5 Ian Richard Hambleton #817,897 worldwide 35k citations · 263 works
Syria
- 1 Abdo Hassoun #71,953 worldwide 6.8k citations · 179 works
- 2 Hazem Ghassan Abdo #93,429 worldwide 4.1k citations · 141 works
- 3 Reem Hasan Obaydo #301,686 worldwide 1.3k citations · 84 works
- 4 Salvatore Ceccarelli #504,669 worldwide 11k citations · 211 works
- 5 Entessar Mohammad Al Jbawi #569,131 worldwide 1.5k citations · 85 works