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On research quality in 2022-now, The Czechia ranks #26 in the world and Belarus #135, of 189 countries. Belarus stands higher in 0 of the 24 fields both publish in, the Czechia in 24.

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Belarus

World rank, 2022-now
#135
#132 all time
Works, 2022-now
15k
fractional
Top-10% rate
3.4%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
46%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Nuclear Energy and Engineering, General Materials Science, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics.

Czechia

World rank, 2022-now
#26
#30 all time
Works, 2022-now
83k
fractional
Top-10% rate
8.5%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
44%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Structural Biology, Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Who leads, measure by measure?

The Czechia leads on 6 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, citations per work and international co-authorship. Belarus leads on 2 of 9 measures: open access and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Belarus 21 level6 Czechia
  1. #135Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#26
  2. 0.33×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.85×
  3. 15kOutputfractional works, 2022-now83k
  4. 3.4%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited8.5%
  5. 6.3Citations per workall time, per fractional work14.2
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 46%Open accessof its works free to read, all time44%
  8. 26%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time31%
  9. +0%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change-3%

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?

Belarus stands higher in 0 of 24 fields, Czechia in 24. The Czechia leads most in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#23 against #118). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Belarus 024 Czechia
  1. #118Agricultural and Biological Sciences#23
  2. #97Arts and Humanities#28
  3. #85Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#22
  4. #109Business, Management and Accounting#30
  5. -Chemical Engineering#27
  6. #61Chemistry#24
  7. #95Computer Science#31
  8. -Decision Sciences#31
  9. -Earth and Planetary Sciences#25
  10. #103Economics, Econometrics and Finance#25
  11. -Energy#31
  12. #90Engineering#31
  13. #111Environmental Science#27
  14. -Health Professions#32
  15. -Immunology and Microbiology#26
  16. #64Materials Science#26
  17. #73Mathematics#26
  18. #125Medicine#27
  19. -Neuroscience#26
  20. -Nursing#31
  21. -Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#25
  22. #70Physics and Astronomy#21
  23. #100Psychology#28
  24. #129Social Sciences#29

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 Belarus rankCzechia rank Belarus top 10%Czechia top 10% Belarus worksCzechia works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #118 #23 3.7% 10.3% 925 5.2k
Arts and Humanities #97 #28 6.5% 9.9% 334 2.9k
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #85 #22 3.3% 8.9% 680 5.1k
Business, Management and Accounting #109 #30 4.3% 9.5% 427 1.9k
Chemical Engineering - #27 - 5.7% - 325
Chemistry #61 #24 1.9% 7.2% 347 1.8k
Computer Science #95 #31 3.3% 8.1% 900 5.4k
Decision Sciences - #31 - 7.0% - 795
Earth and Planetary Sciences - #25 - 7.0% - 1.9k
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #103 #25 2.9% 11.0% 351 1.9k
Energy - #31 - 8.3% - 605
Engineering #90 #31 2.7% 6.5% 2.8k 14k
Environmental Science #111 #27 3.6% 8.8% 624 5.1k
Health Professions - #32 - 8.4% - 1.2k
Immunology and Microbiology - #26 - 9.3% - 822
Materials Science #64 #26 2.7% 6.8% 1k 4k
Mathematics #73 #26 3.1% 9.4% 374 1.3k
Medicine #125 #27 3.2% 8.9% 2.4k 12k
Neuroscience - #26 - 7.4% - 1.3k
Nursing - #31 - 9.2% - 304
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics - #25 - 7.1% - 297
Physics and Astronomy #70 #21 2.1% 8.8% 504 3.1k
Psychology #100 #28 4.4% 8.8% 214 2.1k
Social Sciences #129 #29 5.0% 9.9% 1.8k 10k

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.

Belarus

▲ 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. Sustainable Development948▲ 3.6×91 topics
  2. Climate Change760▲ 1.65×112 topics
  3. Artificial Intelligence586▲ 2.4×61 topics
  4. Epidemiology525▼ 0.78×133 topics
  5. Innovation508▲ 2.9×67 topics
  6. Digital Transformation494▲ 5.4×25 topics
  7. Globalization482▲ 1.45×111 topics
  8. Energy Efficiency418▲ 2.7×41 topics
  9. Oxidative Stress414▲ 1.49×63 topics
  10. Food Security410▲ 4.5×24 topics
  11. Sustainability404◆ 0.98×102 topics
  12. Mechanical Properties374▲ 2.2×39 topics
  13. Digital Economy369▲ 11×19 topics
  14. Regional Development359▲ 6.2×19 topics
  15. Renewable Energy331▲ 1.35×55 topics
  16. Economic Development331▲ 2.4×43 topics
  17. Nanoparticles313▲ 1.47×44 topics
  18. Legal Regulation294▲ 7.7×8 topics
  19. Digitalization253▲ 7.3×14 topics
  20. Economic Security232▲ 6.5×7 topics
  21. Agricultural Development225▲ 8.7×7 topics
  22. Metal Nanoparticles220▲ 8.2×6 topics
  23. Nutrition215▲ 2.9×14 topics
  24. Ethnicity207▲ 3.3×18 topics
  25. Synthesis202▲ 3.2×35 topics
  26. Language193▲ 4.6×12 topics
  27. Global Economy189▲ 8.7×7 topics
  28. Industry 4.0167▲ 19×3 topics
  29. Aerospace Applications150▲ 9.2×3 topics
  30. Industrial Policy149▲ 8.2×4 topics
  31. Geopolitics144▲ 5.6×10 topics
  32. Foresight144▲ 6.5×2 topics
  33. Transition140▲ 9.4×6 topics
  34. Structural Properties138▲ 18×2 topics
  35. Cultural History136▲ 6.7×9 topics
  36. Adhesive Joints134▲ 12×2 topics
  37. Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics132▲ 24×1 topic
  38. Polymer Composite Materials132▲ 24×1 topic
  39. Information Security130▲ 7.8×4 topics
  40. Geographical Analysis126▲ 18×2 topics

Czechia

▲ 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. Climate Change3,523▲ 1.36×131 topics
  2. Epidemiology2,794▼ 0.73×140 topics
  3. Machine Learning2,315▼ 0.73×97 topics
  4. Sustainability2,225◆ 0.95×138 topics
  5. Deep Learning1,970▼ 0.60×85 topics
  6. Environmental Impact1,880▲ 1.16×74 topics
  7. Globalization1,752◆ 0.93×183 topics
  8. Mechanical Properties1,582▲ 1.69×39 topics
  9. Biodiversity1,573▲ 2.2×38 topics
  10. Inflammation1,488▼ 0.73×83 topics
  11. Biomedical Applications1,442▲ 1.28×36 topics
  12. Oxidative Stress1,441◆ 0.92×63 topics
  13. Nanoparticles1,376◆ 1.14×44 topics
  14. Invasive Species1,340▲ 3.3×21 topics
  15. Sustainable Development1,261▼ 0.84×111 topics
  16. Human Rights1,091◆ 1.12×90 topics
  17. Nanomaterials1,042◆ 1.04×21 topics
  18. Nanocomposites992▲ 1.32×22 topics
  19. Identity959▲ 1.39×79 topics
  20. Microstructure916▲ 1.85×19 topics
  21. Conservation908▲ 2.2×24 topics
  22. Literature858▲ 1.64×63 topics
  23. History848▲ 1.28×65 topics
  24. Biogeography828▲ 3.1×20 topics
  25. Phylogenetic Analysis746▲ 2.5×16 topics
  26. Nationalism729▲ 1.70×34 topics
  27. Digital Education714▲ 5.0×7 topics
  28. Philosophy712▲ 1.68×46 topics
  29. Ethnicity669▲ 1.87×24 topics
  30. Evolution654▲ 2.6×19 topics
  31. Phylogeny634▲ 4.0×17 topics
  32. Habitat Fragmentation631▲ 3.1×5 topics
  33. Global Change627▲ 2.5×7 topics
  34. School Climate617▲ 14×3 topics
  35. Learning Environments602▲ 22×3 topics
  36. Student Attitudes595▲ 6.2×2 topics
  37. Educational Methods588▲ 109×1 topic
  38. Pedagogical Research588▲ 109×1 topic
  39. Taxonomy568▲ 4.1×15 topics
  40. DNA Barcoding546▲ 3.3×9 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?

The Czechia has out-published Belarus every year since 1980.

still counting10k20k30kCzechia22k in 2025Belarus3,603 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 counting0.20%0.40%0.60%Czechia0.38% in 2025Belarus0.061% 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%Czechia8.9% in 2025Belarus4.8% 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.

Belarus 02 level3 Czechia
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 0In the top 5002
  4. 0In the top 1,0005
  5. #51Elite capacityrank among 204 countries#28

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, Belarus or Czechia?

The Czechia publishes 5.6× as much research as Belarus in 2022-now (83k against 15k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Belarus or Czechia?

8.5% of the Czechia's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 3.4% for Belarus.

Is Belarus or Czechia growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +0% against 2018-21 for Belarus, and -3% for the Czechia.

Which has more open access research, Belarus or Czechia?

46% of Belarus's research is free to read, against 44% of the Czechia's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Belarus or Czechia?

Belarus holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and the Czechia 0; in the top 1,000 it is 0 against 5.

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%.

Belarus

  1. 1National Academy of Sciences of Belarus5.2% top 10% · 4.7k works
  2. 2Euphrosyne Polotskaya State University2.4% top 10% · 452 works
  3. 3Belarusian National Technical University2.9% top 10% · 900 works
  4. 4Vitebsk State Medical University1.8% top 10% · 335 works
  5. 5Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno3.8% top 10% · 323 works
  6. 6Belarusian State Technological University1.8% top 10% · 472 works

Czechia

  1. 1Czech Academy of Sciences8.3% top 10% · 14k works
  2. 2Charles University9.8% top 10% · 9.7k works
  3. 3Masaryk University9.8% top 10% · 6.1k works
  4. 4VSB - Technical University of Ostrava9.9% top 10% · 2.6k works
  5. 5Palacký University Olomouc9.4% top 10% · 3.3k works
  6. 6Czech University of Life Sciences Prague13.8% top 10% · 2.1k 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.

Belarus

  1. 1 Alena Skrahina #47,327 worldwide 8.7k citations · 157 works
  2. 2 Andrey Litvin #129,746 worldwide 8.9k citations · 233 works
  3. 3 Dzmitry Mukha #487,907 worldwide 1k citations · 23 works
  4. 4 Varvara Solodovnikova #491,374 worldwide 2k citations · 46 works
  5. 5 Svetlana N. Samovich #706,105 worldwide 992 citations · 41 works

Czechia

  1. 1 Petr Baldrián #105 worldwide 38k citations · 8,877 works
  2. 2 C. Søgaard #2,458 worldwide 20k citations · 139 works
  3. 3 L. Montaño Zetina #2,558 worldwide 18k citations · 105 works
  4. 4 Francesco de Bello #4,452 worldwide 26k citations · 293 works
  5. 5 M. Vajzer #4,462 worldwide 14k citations · 88 works

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