Benin vs Lesotho
On research quality in 2022-now, Lesotho ranks #164 in the world and Benin #166, of 189 countries. Benin stands higher in 6 of the 6 fields both publish in, Lesotho in 0.
Research profiles alike: 0.76very 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.
Lesotho
- World rank, 2022-now
- #164
- #158 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 516
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 7.0%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 56%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Archeology, Equine, Linguistics and Language.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Lesotho leads on 5 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work and growth. Benin leads on 3 of 9 measures: output, open access and international co-authorship. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.
- #166Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#164
- 0.51×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.85×
- 4.6kOutputfractional works, 2022-now516
- 6.1%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited7.0%
- 7.3Citations per workall time, per fractional work8.1
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 65%Open accessof its works free to read, all time56%
- 36%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time26%
- -1%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+52%
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 6 of 6 fields, Lesotho in 0. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- #78Agricultural and Biological Sciences-
- #130Engineering-
- #109Environmental Science-
- #102Health Professions-
- #137Medicine-
- #139Social Sciences-
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 | Lesotho rank | Benin top 10% | Lesotho top 10% | Benin works | Lesotho works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | #78 | - | 8.3% | - | 1k | - |
| Engineering | #130 | - | 2.9% | - | 266 | - |
| Environmental Science | #109 | - | 3.8% | - | 385 | - |
| Health Professions | #102 | - | 9.1% | - | 205 | - |
| Medicine | #137 | - | 3.9% | - | 730 | - |
| Social Sciences | #139 | - | 8.2% | - | 672 | - |
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
Lesotho
- Public Participation
- Legal Research
- Land Reform
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Judicial Review
- Lifelong Learning
- School Subsidies
- Governance
- Teacher Professional Development
- Reflective Practice
- Bilingual Education
- Gender Inequality
- Political Economy
- Teacher Training
- Social Capital
- Social Justice
- Poverty Reduction
- Higher Education
- Education
- Human Rights
- Globalization
- Colonialism
- Mental Health
- Economic Growth
- Nationalism
- Technology Integration
- Development
- Gender Equality
- Social Impact
- Multilingualism
- Language Policy
- Professional Development
- Student Perceptions
- Conditional Cash Transfers
- Sociolinguistics
- South Africa
- Inequality
- Environmental Governance
- Equality
- Consumer Protection
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Globalization35▲ 3.1×43 topics
- Human Rights27▲ 4.5×33 topics
- Colonialism25▲ 9.1×11 topics
- Education23▲ 2.3×29 topics
- Mental Health21▲ 2.6×19 topics
- Higher Education20▲ 6.5×12 topics
- Economic Growth18▲ 3.9×16 topics
- Poverty Reduction18▲ 24×5 topics
- Nationalism18▲ 6.9×6 topics
- Social Justice16▲ 4.5×19 topics
- Technology Integration14▲ 7.9×6 topics
- Social Capital14▲ 4.7×12 topics
- Development14▲ 6.6×13 topics
- Teacher Training14▲ 3.8×10 topics
- Gender Equality13▲ 8.0×10 topics
- Political Economy13▲ 8.6×9 topics
- Social Impact12▲ 5.5×6 topics
- Gender Inequality12▲ 15×5 topics
- Multilingualism12▲ 12×3 topics
- Bilingual Education11▲ 17×2 topics
- Language Policy11▲ 14×2 topics
- Reflective Practice11▲ 10×5 topics
- Professional Development11▲ 9.2×8 topics
- Teacher Professional Development11▲ 11×4 topics
- Student Perceptions11▲ 10×7 topics
- Governance10▲ 5.3×8 topics
- Conditional Cash Transfers10▲ 48×1 topic
- School Subsidies10▲ 48×1 topic
- Sociolinguistics10▲ 9.3×3 topics
- Lifelong Learning10▲ 7.9×7 topics
- South Africa9▲ 56×4 topics
- Judicial Review9▲ 18×2 topics
- Inequality9▲ 6.6×4 topics
- Antiretroviral Therapy8▲ 8.9×6 topics
- Environmental Governance8▲ 21×4 topics
- Land Reform8▲ 30×2 topics
- Equality8▲ 24×4 topics
- Legal Research8▲ 12×2 topics
- Consumer Protection8▲ 31×2 topics
- Public Participation8▲ 61×2 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?
Benin has out-published Lesotho every year since 1986, 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, Benin or Lesotho?
Benin publishes 8.9× as much research as Lesotho in 2022-now (4.6k against 516 fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Benin or Lesotho?
7.0% of Lesotho's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.1% for Benin.
Is Benin or Lesotho growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +52% against 2018-21 for Lesotho, and -1% for Benin.
Which has more open access research, Benin or Lesotho?
65% of Benin's research is free to read, against 56% of Lesotho's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Benin or Lesotho?
Benin holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Lesotho 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
Lesotho
- 1National University of Lesotho6.7% top 10% · 482 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
Lesotho
- 1 Rethabile Rosemary Molefi #560,261 worldwide 518 citations · 24 works
- 2 John Batani #1,060,934 worldwide 1.2k citations · 55 works
- 3 Lucy Nthabiseng Makoae #1,254,679 worldwide 1.6k citations · 23 works
- 4 Makhulu Alice Makumane #1,641,636 worldwide 171 citations · 27 works
- 5 Ramaele Moshoeshoe #2,029,182 worldwide 69 citations · 18 works