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Bhutan vs Kyrgyzstan

On research quality in 2022-now, Bhutan ranks #140 in the world and Kyrgyzstan #142, of 189 countries. Bhutan stands higher in 0 of the 10 fields both publish in, Kyrgyzstan in 10.

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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.

Kyrgyzstan

World rank, 2022-now
#142
#162 all time
Works, 2022-now
6.4k
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.1%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
73%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Anatomy, Fuel Technology, Archeology.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Bhutan leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, citations per work and international co-authorship. Kyrgyzstan leads on 2 of 9 measures: output and growth. The two are level on top-10% rate, institutions in the world top 100 and open access.

Bhutan 43 level2 Kyrgyzstan
  1. #140Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#142
  2. 0.75×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.41×
  3. 917Outputfractional works, 2022-now6.4k
  4. 4.9%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.1%
  5. 8.2Citations per workall time, per fractional work2.6
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 74%Open accessof its works free to read, all time73%
  8. 35%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time25%
  9. +32%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+87%

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?

Bhutan stands higher in 0 of 10 fields, Kyrgyzstan in 10. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Bhutan 010 Kyrgyzstan
  1. -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#115
  2. -Arts and Humanities#74
  3. -Business, Management and Accounting#80
  4. -Computer Science#116
  5. -Economics, Econometrics and Finance#84
  6. -Engineering#119
  7. -Environmental Science#101
  8. -Medicine#145
  9. -Psychology#86
  10. -Social Sciences#80

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 Bhutan rankKyrgyzstan rank Bhutan top 10%Kyrgyzstan top 10% Bhutan worksKyrgyzstan works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences - #115 - 5.4% - 276
Arts and Humanities - #74 - 9.5% - 373
Business, Management and Accounting - #80 - 7.5% - 222
Computer Science - #116 - 4.0% - 503
Economics, Econometrics and Finance - #84 - 6.4% - 309
Engineering - #119 - 3.4% - 455
Environmental Science - #101 - 4.1% - 229
Medicine - #145 - 2.7% - 1k
Psychology - #86 - 3.3% - 220
Social Sciences - #80 - 7.0% - 1.9k

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

Kyrgyzstan

▲ 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. Education583▲ 4.3×88 topics
  2. Globalization536▲ 3.5×103 topics
  3. Sustainable Development521▲ 4.3×91 topics
  4. Innovation487▲ 6.1×59 topics
  5. Educational Technology440▲ 4.8×42 topics
  6. Pedagogy407▲ 10×17 topics
  7. Sustainability373▲ 1.96×98 topics
  8. E-Learning359▲ 4.8×23 topics
  9. Climate Change352▲ 1.66×107 topics
  10. Online Learning304▲ 4.7×23 topics
  11. Digital Education302▲ 26×6 topics
  12. Digital Economy282▲ 18×17 topics
  13. Artificial Intelligence280▲ 2.5×61 topics
  14. Economic Development279▲ 4.5×38 topics
  15. Educational Technologies274▲ 39×2 topics
  16. Public Health272▲ 2.4×57 topics
  17. Language Teaching267▲ 13×8 topics
  18. Social Media256▲ 2.4×32 topics
  19. Teacher Training255▲ 5.3×21 topics
  20. Central Asia253▲ 46×4 topics
  21. Tourism Development246▲ 23×2 topics
  22. Teaching Methods241▲ 19×10 topics
  23. Critical Thinking237▲ 26×4 topics
  24. International Relations237▲ 13×25 topics
  25. Entrepreneurship235▲ 7.6×14 topics
  26. Formative Assessment233▲ 36×2 topics
  27. Artistic Education232▲ 46×1 topic
  28. Student Competencies232▲ 46×1 topic
  29. Cultural Diplomacy224▲ 35×5 topics
  30. Digital Transformation222▲ 5.3×26 topics
  31. Migration219▲ 8.2×22 topics
  32. Geopolitics214▲ 18×10 topics
  33. Security205▲ 3.9×26 topics
  34. Distance Learning205▲ 7.6×10 topics
  35. Digitalization203▲ 13×13 topics
  36. Language192▲ 9.9×11 topics
  37. Belt and Road Initiative182▲ 61×3 topics
  38. Soft Power146▲ 46×3 topics
  39. Eurasian integration142▲ 153×1 topic
  40. Russia-China cooperation142▲ 153×1 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?

Kyrgyzstan has out-published Bhutan every year since 1987, when it overtook it.

still counting1k2k3kKyrgyzstan2,414 in 2025Bhutan213 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%0.060%Kyrgyzstan0.041% in 2025Bhutan0.0036% 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%Bhutan5.7% in 2025Kyrgyzstan5.1% 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 Kyrgyzstan
  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 Kyrgyzstan?

Kyrgyzstan publishes 7.0× as much research as Bhutan in 2022-now (6.4k against 917 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Bhutan or Kyrgyzstan?

5.1% of Kyrgyzstan's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.9% for Bhutan.

Is Bhutan or Kyrgyzstan growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +87% against 2018-21 for Kyrgyzstan, and +32% for Bhutan.

Which has more open access research, Bhutan or Kyrgyzstan?

74% of Bhutan's research is free to read, against 73% of Kyrgyzstan's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Bhutan or Kyrgyzstan?

Bhutan holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Kyrgyzstan 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

Kyrgyzstan

  1. 1Kyrgyz State National University2.5% top 10% · 1.2k works
  2. 2Kyrgyz-Türkish Manas Üniversity8.5% top 10% · 716 works
  3. 3Osh State University4.4% top 10% · 914 works
  4. 4Aga Khan Foundation6.4% top 10% · 285 works
  5. 5University of Central Asia12.5% top 10% · 219 works
  6. 6International University of Kyrgyzstan6.7% top 10% · 311 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

Kyrgyzstan

  1. 1 Erkin Mirsaidovich Mirrakhimov #910 worldwide 238k citations · 309 works
  2. 2 Alina S Kerimkulova #184,365 worldwide 54k citations · 73 works
  3. 3 Kashif Hasan Khan #402,554 worldwide 217 citations · 36 works
  4. 4 Kubatbek Sh. Tabaldiev #510,674 worldwide 2.5k citations · 44 works
  5. 5 Ayman Aljarbouh #536,372 worldwide 1.2k citations · 66 works