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Bhutan vs Cape Verde

On research quality in 2022-now, Bhutan ranks #140 in the world and Cape Verde #177, of 189 countries.

Research profiles alike: 0.88very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured

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Bhutan

World rank, 2022-now
#140
#160 all time
Works, 2022-now
917
fractional
Top-10% rate
4.9%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
74%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Virology.

Cape Verde

World rank, 2022-now
#177
#165 all time
Works, 2022-now
240
fractional
Top-10% rate
6.8%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
79%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Development, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Cape Verde leads on 5 of 9 measures: excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, open access, international co-authorship and growth. Bhutan leads on 3 of 9 measures: research quality, output and citations per work. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Bhutan 31 level5 Cape Verde
  1. #140Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#177
  2. 0.75×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.93×
  3. 917Outputfractional works, 2022-now240
  4. 4.9%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.8%
  5. 8.2Citations per workall time, per fractional work4.6
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 74%Open accessof its works free to read, all time79%
  8. 35%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time47%
  9. +32%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+39%

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.

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.

Bhutan

▲ 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 Change90▲ 3.3×71 topics
  2. Sustainability48▲ 1.96×55 topics
  3. Epidemiology46▲ 1.16×75 topics
  4. Educational Technology40▲ 3.4×22 topics
  5. Biodiversity37▲ 4.9×22 topics
  6. Education37▲ 2.2×28 topics
  7. Globalization33▲ 1.65×37 topics
  8. E-Learning29▲ 3.0×11 topics
  9. Technology Integration28▲ 8.7×8 topics
  10. Online Learning27▲ 3.3×9 topics
  11. Environmental Impact27▲ 1.59×31 topics
  12. Remote Sensing27▲ 2.2×21 topics
  13. Renewable Energy25▲ 1.73×28 topics
  14. Teaching Strategies24▲ 8.4×5 topics
  15. Mobile Learning22▲ 6.3×4 topics
  16. Meta-Analysis21▲ 3.5×11 topics
  17. Invasive Species20▲ 4.8×16 topics
  18. Social Justice19▲ 3.2×13 topics
  19. Student Satisfaction19▲ 10×2 topics
  20. Higher Education18▲ 3.3×14 topics
  21. Student Engagement18▲ 4.4×10 topics
  22. Conservation17▲ 3.9×16 topics
  23. Google Classroom16▲ 16×1 topic
  24. Teacher Perception16▲ 15×1 topic
  25. 21st Century Skills16▲ 5.6×6 topics
  26. Biogeography16▲ 5.6×13 topics
  27. Habitat Fragmentation15▲ 7.0×5 topics
  28. Adaptation15▲ 4.9×6 topics
  29. Global Change15▲ 5.5×5 topics
  30. Population Dynamics14▲ 5.6×8 topics
  31. Critical Thinking Skills14▲ 7.8×2 topics
  32. Nursing Education14▲ 10×2 topics
  33. Habitat Selection12▲ 17×2 topics
  34. Higher-Order Thinking12▲ 16×1 topic
  35. Instructional Interventions12▲ 16×1 topic
  36. Vulnerability12▲ 5.4×7 topics
  37. Animal Movement12▲ 23×1 topic
  38. Occupancy Rates12▲ 23×1 topic
  39. Teacher Professional Development12▲ 7.2×5 topics
  40. Model Evaluation11▲ 8.7×2 topics

Cape Verde

▲ 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 Change23▲ 3.1×45 topics
  2. Sustainability19▲ 2.9×37 topics
  3. Globalization19▲ 3.6×41 topics
  4. Epidemiology15▲ 1.42×43 topics
  5. Sustainable Development15▲ 3.5×32 topics
  6. Public Health13▲ 3.3×26 topics
  7. Public Policy11▲ 8.9×16 topics
  8. Education10▲ 2.2×27 topics
  9. Colonialism9▲ 7.2×11 topics
  10. Rural Development9▲ 9.4×12 topics
  11. Governance8▲ 9.5×9 topics
  12. Mental Health8▲ 2.1×17 topics
  13. Qualitative Research8▲ 3.5×11 topics
  14. COVID-198▲ 2.2×16 topics
  15. Urban Development8▲ 7.9×8 topics
  16. Community Participation7▲ 7.8×8 topics
  17. Social Impact7▲ 7.0×9 topics
  18. Population Dynamics7▲ 10×9 topics
  19. Biodiversity7▲ 3.5×17 topics
  20. Economic Growth7▲ 3.0×12 topics
  21. Sustainable Development Goals7▲ 14×5 topics
  22. Healthcare Access6▲ 8.9×8 topics
  23. Teacher Training6▲ 3.9×10 topics
  24. Conservation6▲ 5.5×11 topics
  25. Cultural Studies6▲ 6.3×7 topics
  26. Biodiversity Conservation6▲ 5.6×11 topics
  27. Food Security6▲ 3.9×11 topics
  28. Economic Impact6▲ 3.8×5 topics
  29. Vulnerability5▲ 8.6×6 topics
  30. Social Inequality5▲ 6.9×7 topics
  31. Imperialism5▲ 24×3 topics
  32. Community Development5▲ 9.6×4 topics
  33. Ecosystem Health5▲ 36×2 topics
  34. Stakeholder Engagement5▲ 19×2 topics
  35. Ecosystem-Based Management4▲ 51×1 topic
  36. Marine Spatial Planning4▲ 51×1 topic
  37. Environmental Education4▲ 10×5 topics
  38. Gender Dynamics4▲ 14×2 topics
  39. African History4▲ 65×1 topic
  40. Post-Colonial Africa4▲ 65×1 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?

Bhutan has out-published Cape Verde every year since 2015, when it overtook it.

still counting200400Bhutan213 in 2025Cape Verde63 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 counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Bhutan0.0036% in 2025Cape Verde0.0011% 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%Cape Verde8.9% in 2025Bhutan5.7% in 202520102020

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.

Bhutan 05 level0 Cape Verde
  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, Bhutan or Cape Verde?

Bhutan publishes 3.8× as much research as Cape Verde in 2022-now (917 against 240 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Bhutan or Cape Verde?

6.8% of Cape Verde's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.9% for Bhutan.

Is Bhutan or Cape Verde growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +39% against 2018-21 for Cape Verde, and +32% for Bhutan.

Which has more open access research, Bhutan or Cape Verde?

79% of Cape Verde's research is free to read, against 74% of Bhutan's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Bhutan or Cape Verde?

Bhutan holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Cape Verde 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%.

Bhutan

  1. 1Royal University of Bhutan4.9% top 10% · 586 works
  2. 2Ministry of Agriculture and Forests5.1% top 10% · 159 works
  3. 3Centre for Bhutan Studies and GNH Research4.6% top 10% · 103 works

Cape Verde

  1. 1University of Cape Verde8.1% top 10% · 129 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.

Bhutan

  1. 1 Sonam Wangchuk #879,489 worldwide 2.1k citations · 81 works
  2. 2 Karma Tempa #1,298,054 worldwide 366 citations · 27 works
  3. 3 Rajnish Ratna #1,299,859 worldwide 567 citations · 23 works
  4. 4 Pem Chuki #1,519,786 worldwide 503 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Binay Thapa #1,532,348 worldwide 745 citations · 15 works

Cape Verde

  1. 1 Herculano Andrade Dinis #1,168,953 worldwide 683 citations · 37 works
  2. 2 Adilson José DePina #1,241,128 worldwide 397 citations · 36 works
  3. 3 Rui Freitas #1,733,975 worldwide 817 citations · 44 works
  4. 4 Silvânia da Veiga Leal #1,796,476 worldwide 356 citations · 33 works
  5. 5 Lara Ferrero Gómez #2,279,391 worldwide 406 citations · 30 works