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Benin vs Côte d'Ivoire

On research quality in 2022-now, Côte d'Ivoire ranks #165 in the world and Benin #166, of 189 countries. Benin stands higher in 2 of the 9 fields both publish in, Côte d'Ivoire in 7.

Research profiles alike: 0.71very 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.

Côte d'Ivoire

World rank, 2022-now
#165
#118 all time
Works, 2022-now
6.5k
fractional
Top-10% rate
3.4%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
71%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Horticulture, Forestry, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Benin leads on 4 of 9 measures: excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work and international co-authorship. Côte d'Ivoire leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, output, open access and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Benin 41 level4 Côte d'Ivoire
  1. #166Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#165
  2. 0.51×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.36×
  3. 4.6kOutputfractional works, 2022-now6.5k
  4. 6.1%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited3.4%
  5. 7.3Citations per workall time, per fractional work6.0
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 65%Open accessof its works free to read, all time71%
  8. 36%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time35%
  9. -1%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+15%

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 2 of 9 fields, Côte d'Ivoire in 7. Côte d'Ivoire leads most in Medicine (#131 against #137); Benin leads most in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#78 against #99). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Benin 27 Côte d'Ivoire
  1. #78Agricultural and Biological Sciences#99
  2. -Arts and Humanities#95
  3. -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#97
  4. -Economics, Econometrics and Finance#98
  5. #130Engineering#129
  6. #109Environmental Science#114
  7. #102Health Professions#101
  8. #137Medicine#131
  9. #139Social Sciences#135

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 rankCôte d'Ivoire rank Benin top 10%Côte d'Ivoire top 10% Benin worksCôte d'Ivoire works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #78 #99 8.3% 2.7% 1k 1.7k
Arts and Humanities - #95 - 3.5% - 252
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - #97 - 1.7% - 285
Economics, Econometrics and Finance - #98 - 5.3% - 205
Engineering #130 #129 2.9% 2.3% 266 213
Environmental Science #109 #114 3.8% 2.5% 385 525
Health Professions #102 #101 9.1% 6.2% 205 219
Medicine #137 #131 3.9% 1.9% 730 1.2k
Social Sciences #139 #135 8.2% 7.2% 672 877

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

▲ 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 Change536▲ 3.8×96 topics
  2. Smallholder Farmers452▲ 42×6 topics
  3. Sustainability432▲ 3.4×79 topics
  4. Adaptation303▲ 20×10 topics
  5. Epidemiology287▲ 1.41×127 topics
  6. Agroecology264▲ 36×5 topics
  7. Livestock Farming257▲ 85×3 topics
  8. Diversity257▲ 29×9 topics
  9. Multifunctionality251▲ 105×2 topics
  10. Agricultural Development251▲ 32×4 topics
  11. Work Organization250▲ 126×1 topic
  12. Biodiversity Conservation216▲ 11×15 topics
  13. Sustainable Agriculture213▲ 13×10 topics
  14. Sustainable Development193▲ 2.4×64 topics
  15. Agroforestry174▲ 51×4 topics
  16. Nutritional Value171▲ 30×5 topics
  17. Community Engagement169▲ 10×12 topics
  18. Climate Resilience169▲ 55×3 topics
  19. Environmental Impact169▲ 1.93×54 topics
  20. Territorial Governance165▲ 28×3 topics
  21. Local Development164▲ 31×2 topics
  22. Rural Livelihoods145▲ 53×2 topics
  23. Public Health145▲ 1.94×58 topics
  24. Indigenous Fruits144▲ 122×1 topic
  25. Tree Domestication144▲ 122×1 topic
  26. Social Justice142▲ 4.6×27 topics
  27. Public Policy139▲ 5.7×15 topics
  28. Citizen Participation115▲ 20×2 topics
  29. Environmental Participation114▲ 31×1 topic
  30. Proximity and Innovation114▲ 31×1 topic
  31. Genetic Diversity113▲ 5.1×22 topics
  32. Economic Development105▲ 2.6×29 topics
  33. Ecosystem Services85▲ 4.3×12 topics
  34. Vaccine Development80▲ 6.1×11 topics
  35. Social Determinants of Health78▲ 7.1×6 topics
  36. Rural Development78▲ 4.4×16 topics
  37. Medicinal Plants77▲ 3.9×20 topics
  38. Insecticide Resistance59▲ 15×4 topics
  39. Social Innovation59▲ 7.5×7 topics
  40. Cooperatives55▲ 15×3 topics

Côte d'Ivoire

▲ 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. Smallholder Farmers723▲ 47×6 topics
  2. Climate Change716▲ 3.6×98 topics
  3. Sustainability552▲ 3.1×84 topics
  4. Epidemiology437▲ 1.51×128 topics
  5. Biodiversity Conservation434▲ 16×14 topics
  6. Adaptation429▲ 20×14 topics
  7. Diversity413▲ 32×11 topics
  8. Agroecology408▲ 40×5 topics
  9. Agroforestry406▲ 84×4 topics
  10. Agricultural Development406▲ 37×3 topics
  11. Livestock Farming403▲ 93×3 topics
  12. Multifunctionality403▲ 119×2 topics
  13. Work Organization402▲ 143×1 topic
  14. Sustainable Agriculture327▲ 15×14 topics
  15. Nutritional Value308▲ 38×4 topics
  16. Climate Resilience305▲ 70×3 topics
  17. Indigenous Fruits281▲ 168×1 topic
  18. Tree Domestication281▲ 168×1 topic
  19. Genetic Diversity268▲ 8.5×21 topics
  20. Antioxidant197▲ 3.9×46 topics
  21. Ecosystem Services170▲ 6.0×11 topics
  22. Governance168▲ 7.1×12 topics
  23. Ethnicity161▲ 5.9×11 topics
  24. Water Quality156▲ 5.3×17 topics
  25. Medicinal Plants148▲ 5.2×19 topics
  26. Social Movements145▲ 6.7×17 topics
  27. Soil Fertility138▲ 8.4×8 topics
  28. Climate Change Resilience126▲ 29×2 topics
  29. Africa123▲ 41×3 topics
  30. Disease Resistance123▲ 32×3 topics
  31. Decentralization122▲ 8.1×4 topics
  32. Sociolinguistics122▲ 9.2×7 topics
  33. Cacao121▲ 119×1 topic
  34. Cocoa Production121▲ 119×1 topic
  35. Political Transition121▲ 33×3 topics
  36. Territorial Governance120▲ 14×4 topics
  37. Local Development120▲ 16×2 topics
  38. Youth Employment118▲ 80×2 topics
  39. media pluralism118▲ 192×1 topic
  40. urban protest118▲ 192×1 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?

Côte d'Ivoire has out-published Benin every year since 2012, when it overtook it.

still counting1k2kCôte d'Ivoire1,838 in 2025Benin1,023 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 counting0.020%0.040%Côte d'Ivoire0.031% in 2025Benin0.017% 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%Benin6.2% in 2025Côte d'Ivoire3.0% 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.

Benin 05 level0 Côte d'Ivoire
  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, Benin or Côte d'Ivoire?

Côte d'Ivoire publishes 1.4× as much research as Benin in 2022-now (6.5k against 4.6k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Benin or Côte d'Ivoire?

6.1% of Benin's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 3.4% for Côte d'Ivoire.

Is Benin or Côte d'Ivoire growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +15% against 2018-21 for Côte d'Ivoire, and -1% for Benin.

Which has more open access research, Benin or Côte d'Ivoire?

71% of Côte d'Ivoire's research is free to read, against 65% of Benin's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Benin or Côte d'Ivoire?

Benin holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Côte d'Ivoire 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%.

Côte d'Ivoire

  1. 1Université Alassane Ouattara1.4% top 10% · 858 works
  2. 2Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny2.9% top 10% · 1.9k works
  3. 3Université Pelefero Gon Coulibaly2.5% top 10% · 424 works
  4. 4Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny3.4% top 10% · 310 works
  5. 5Ministère de l'Agriculture9.5% top 10% · 173 works
  6. 6Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé1.3% top 10% · 569 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. 1 Edmond Totin #71,254 worldwide 9k citations · 80 works
  2. 2 Alcade C. Segnon #93,510 worldwide 2.5k citations · 75 works
  3. 3 Luc Djogbénou #264,772 worldwide 4.4k citations · 165 works
  4. 4 Sylvanus Mensah #465,633 worldwide 2.4k citations · 88 works
  5. 5 Corine Houéhanou #474,294 worldwide 3.9k citations · 125 works

Côte d'Ivoire

  1. 1 Irie Casimir Zo‐Bi #92,500 worldwide 4.1k citations · 70 works
  2. 2 John C. Anyanwu #136,045 worldwide 3.6k citations · 64 works
  3. 3 Kazuki Saito #156,363 worldwide 7.7k citations · 253 works
  4. 4 Anny Estelle N’Guessan #165,662 worldwide 1.4k citations · 35 works
  5. 5 Jean T. Coulibaly #342,887 worldwide 4.1k citations · 179 works