Benin vs Cameroon
On research quality in 2022-now, Cameroon ranks #133 in the world and Benin #166, of 189 countries. Benin stands higher in 1 of the 17 fields both publish in, Cameroon in 16.
Research profiles alike: 0.85very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured
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Benin
- World rank, 2022-now
- #166
- #139 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 4.6k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 6.1%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 65%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Horticulture, Forestry, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Cameroon
- World rank, 2022-now
- #133
- #103 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 14k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 6.3%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 65%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Horticulture, Forestry, Medical Terminology.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Cameroon leads on 5 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, citations per work and growth. Benin leads on 1 of 9 measures: international co-authorship. The two are level on top-10% rate, institutions in the world top 100 and open access.
- #166Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#133
- 0.51×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.64×
- 4.6kOutputfractional works, 2022-now14k
- 6.1%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.3%
- 7.3Citations per workall time, per fractional work12.2
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 65%Open accessof its works free to read, all time65%
- 36%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time34%
- -1%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+29%
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?
Benin stands higher in 1 of 17 fields, Cameroon in 16. Cameroon leads most in Medicine (#107 against #137); Benin leads most in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#78 against #101). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- #78Agricultural and Biological Sciences#101
- -Arts and Humanities#102
- -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#77
- -Business, Management and Accounting#104
- -Computer Science#120
- -Earth and Planetary Sciences#74
- -Economics, Econometrics and Finance#83
- #130Engineering#115
- #109Environmental Science#107
- #102Health Professions#99
- -Immunology and Microbiology#63
- -Materials Science#85
- -Mathematics#79
- #137Medicine#107
- -Physics and Astronomy#73
- -Psychology#102
- #139Social Sciences#138
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 | Benin rank | Cameroon rank | Benin top 10% | Cameroon top 10% | Benin works | Cameroon works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | #78 | #101 | 8.3% | 5.8% | 1k | 2k |
| Arts and Humanities | - | #102 | - | 5.5% | - | 323 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | - | #77 | - | 5.0% | - | 520 |
| Business, Management and Accounting | - | #104 | - | 4.8% | - | 420 |
| Computer Science | - | #120 | - | 7.7% | - | 807 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | - | #74 | - | 5.9% | - | 381 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | - | #83 | - | 9.7% | - | 686 |
| Engineering | #130 | #115 | 2.9% | 7.1% | 266 | 1.3k |
| Environmental Science | #109 | #107 | 3.8% | 6.2% | 385 | 962 |
| Health Professions | #102 | #99 | 9.1% | 10.2% | 205 | 389 |
| Immunology and Microbiology | - | #63 | - | 5.0% | - | 202 |
| Materials Science | - | #85 | - | 5.0% | - | 271 |
| Mathematics | - | #79 | - | 4.8% | - | 202 |
| Medicine | #137 | #107 | 3.9% | 4.8% | 730 | 2.5k |
| Physics and Astronomy | - | #73 | - | 5.8% | - | 408 |
| Psychology | - | #102 | - | 4.9% | - | 237 |
| Social Sciences | #139 | #138 | 8.2% | 7.7% | 672 | 1.7k |
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.
Benin
- Cooperatives
- Insecticide Resistance
- Rural Development
- Vaccine Development
- Economic Development
- Proximity and Innovation
- Citizen Participation
- Social Justice
- Indigenous Fruits
- Rural Livelihoods
- Territorial Governance
- Climate Resilience
- Nutritional Value
- Sustainable Development
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Agricultural Development
- Diversity
- Agroecology
- Adaptation
- Smallholder Farmers
- Climate Change
- Sustainability
- Epidemiology
- Livestock Farming
- Multifunctionality
- Work Organization
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Agroforestry
- Community Engagement
- Environmental Impact
- Local Development
- Public Health
- Tree Domestication
- Public Policy
- Environmental Participation
- Genetic Diversity
- Ecosystem Services
- Social Determinants of Health
- Medicinal Plants
- Social Innovation
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Climate Change536▲ 3.8×96 topics
- Smallholder Farmers452▲ 42×6 topics
- Sustainability432▲ 3.4×79 topics
- Adaptation303▲ 20×10 topics
- Epidemiology287▲ 1.41×127 topics
- Agroecology264▲ 36×5 topics
- Livestock Farming257▲ 85×3 topics
- Diversity257▲ 29×9 topics
- Multifunctionality251▲ 105×2 topics
- Agricultural Development251▲ 32×4 topics
- Work Organization250▲ 126×1 topic
- Biodiversity Conservation216▲ 11×15 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture213▲ 13×10 topics
- Sustainable Development193▲ 2.4×64 topics
- Agroforestry174▲ 51×4 topics
- Nutritional Value171▲ 30×5 topics
- Community Engagement169▲ 10×12 topics
- Climate Resilience169▲ 55×3 topics
- Environmental Impact169▲ 1.93×54 topics
- Territorial Governance165▲ 28×3 topics
- Local Development164▲ 31×2 topics
- Rural Livelihoods145▲ 53×2 topics
- Public Health145▲ 1.94×58 topics
- Indigenous Fruits144▲ 122×1 topic
- Tree Domestication144▲ 122×1 topic
- Social Justice142▲ 4.6×27 topics
- Public Policy139▲ 5.7×15 topics
- Citizen Participation115▲ 20×2 topics
- Environmental Participation114▲ 31×1 topic
- Proximity and Innovation114▲ 31×1 topic
- Genetic Diversity113▲ 5.1×22 topics
- Economic Development105▲ 2.6×29 topics
- Ecosystem Services85▲ 4.3×12 topics
- Vaccine Development80▲ 6.1×11 topics
- Social Determinants of Health78▲ 7.1×6 topics
- Rural Development78▲ 4.4×16 topics
- Medicinal Plants77▲ 3.9×20 topics
- Insecticide Resistance59▲ 15×4 topics
- Social Innovation59▲ 7.5×7 topics
- Cooperatives55▲ 15×3 topics
Cameroon
- Tree Domestication
- Rural Livelihoods
- Vaccine Development
- Mobile Phones
- Poverty Reduction
- Anti-inflammatory
- ICT
- Institutional Quality
- Agroforestry
- Genetic Diversity
- Medicinal Plants
- Work Organization
- Multifunctionality
- Livestock Farming
- Agroecology
- Antioxidant
- Adaptation
- Renewable Energy
- Smallholder Farmers
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Environmental Impact
- Globalization
- Diversity
- Economic Growth
- Agricultural Development
- Governance
- Economic Development
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Global Burden
- Inequality
- Nutritional Value
- Climate Resilience
- Knowledge Economy
- Inclusive Development
- financial access
- Flavonoids
- Indigenous Fruits
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology981▲ 1.49×138 topics
- Climate Change918▲ 2.0×105 topics
- Sustainability787▲ 1.94×96 topics
- Smallholder Farmers612▲ 17×6 topics
- Environmental Impact485▲ 1.72×59 topics
- Renewable Energy466▲ 1.94×49 topics
- Globalization465▲ 1.43×120 topics
- Adaptation455▲ 9.2×15 topics
- Diversity382▲ 13×10 topics
- Antioxidant375▲ 3.3×50 topics
- Economic Growth374▲ 2.8×30 topics
- Agroecology373▲ 16×5 topics
- Agricultural Development364▲ 14×6 topics
- Livestock Farming363▲ 37×3 topics
- Governance362▲ 6.7×16 topics
- Multifunctionality360▲ 47×2 topics
- Economic Development360▲ 2.7×38 topics
- Work Organization359▲ 56×1 topic
- Biodiversity Conservation347▲ 5.6×16 topics
- Medicinal Plants332▲ 5.2×19 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture284▲ 5.5×15 topics
- Genetic Diversity271▲ 3.8×21 topics
- Global Burden267▲ 3.0×12 topics
- Agroforestry257▲ 23×4 topics
- Inequality252▲ 6.7×15 topics
- Institutional Quality250▲ 14×3 topics
- Nutritional Value239▲ 13×5 topics
- ICT238▲ 11×5 topics
- Climate Resilience227▲ 23×3 topics
- Anti-inflammatory222▲ 4.7×29 topics
- Knowledge Economy218▲ 12×9 topics
- Poverty Reduction209▲ 9.7×5 topics
- Inclusive Development207▲ 29×2 topics
- Mobile Phones206▲ 27×1 topic
- financial access206▲ 31×1 topic
- Vaccine Development201▲ 4.7×11 topics
- Flavonoids193▲ 4.6×12 topics
- Rural Livelihoods191▲ 21×3 topics
- Indigenous Fruits190▲ 50×1 topic
- Tree Domestication190▲ 50×1 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?
Cameroon has out-published Benin every year since 1980.
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, Benin or Cameroon?
Cameroon publishes 3.1× as much research as Benin in 2022-now (14k against 4.6k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Benin or Cameroon?
6.3% of Cameroon's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.1% for Benin.
Is Benin or Cameroon growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +29% against 2018-21 for Cameroon, and -1% for Benin.
Which has more open access research, Benin or Cameroon?
65% of Cameroon's research is free to read, against 65% of Benin's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Benin or Cameroon?
Benin holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Cameroon 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%.
Benin
- 1Ministre de la Santé8.5% top 10% · 536 works
- 2Université de Parakou7.8% top 10% · 608 works
- 3Université d'Abomey-Calavi5.7% top 10% · 2k works
- 4University of Science and Technology of Benin2.2% top 10% · 427 works
- 5National University of Sciences, Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics4.7% top 10% · 241 works
- 6Centre National Hospitalier et Universitaire Hubert Koutoukou MAGA4.2% top 10% · 174 works
Cameroon
- 1University of Ngaoundéré4.4% top 10% · 870 works
- 2University of Douala5.5% top 10% · 1.6k works
- 3Université de Dschang8.3% top 10% · 2.1k works
- 4University of Bamenda6.4% top 10% · 1.2k works
- 5University of Buea6.2% top 10% · 1.5k works
- 6Université de Yaoundé I5.2% top 10% · 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.
Benin
- 1 Edmond Totin #71,254 worldwide 9k citations · 80 works
- 2 Alcade C. Segnon #93,510 worldwide 2.5k citations · 75 works
- 3 Luc Djogbénou #264,772 worldwide 4.4k citations · 165 works
- 4 Sylvanus Mensah #465,633 worldwide 2.4k citations · 88 works
- 5 Corine Houéhanou #474,294 worldwide 3.9k citations · 125 works
Cameroon
- 1 Simplice Anutechia Asongu #20,207 worldwide 26k citations · 1,463 works
- 2 Magellan Tchouakui #44,816 worldwide 2.4k citations · 117 works
- 3 Jean Jacques Noubiap #50,405 worldwide 171k citations · 401 works
- 4 Vanessa Simen Tchamyou #65,850 worldwide 4.4k citations · 111 works
- 5 Duncan W. Thomas #75,030 worldwide 12k citations · 102 works