Bhutan vs Malawi
On research quality in 2022-now, Malawi ranks #61 in the world and Bhutan #140, of 189 countries. Bhutan stands higher in 0 of the 4 fields both publish in, Malawi in 4.
Research profiles alike: 0.87very 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.
Malawi
- World rank, 2022-now
- #61
- #55 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 3k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 9.5%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 63%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Forestry, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Parasitology.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Malawi leads on 7 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, citations per work, international co-authorship and growth. Bhutan leads on 1 of 9 measures: open access. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.
- #140Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#61
- 0.75×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected1.12×
- 917Outputfractional works, 2022-now3k
- 4.9%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited9.5%
- 8.2Citations per workall time, per fractional work16.6
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 74%Open accessof its works free to read, all time63%
- 35%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time49%
- +32%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+46%
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 4 fields, Malawi in 4. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
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 rank | Malawi rank | Bhutan top 10% | Malawi top 10% | Bhutan works | Malawi works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | - | #51 | - | 11.7% | - | 336 |
| Environmental Science | - | #72 | - | 7.4% | - | 275 |
| Medicine | - | #45 | - | 11.8% | - | 641 |
| Social Sciences | - | #65 | - | 8.2% | - | 534 |
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
- Model Evaluation
- Occupancy Rates
- Vulnerability
- Higher-Order Thinking
- Nursing Education
- Population Dynamics
- Adaptation
- Biogeography
- Teacher Perception
- Conservation
- Higher Education
- Social Justice
- Meta-Analysis
- Teaching Strategies
- Remote Sensing
- Online Learning
- E-Learning
- Education
- Educational Technology
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Biodiversity
- Globalization
- Technology Integration
- Environmental Impact
- Renewable Energy
- Mobile Learning
- Invasive Species
- Student Satisfaction
- Student Engagement
- Google Classroom
- 21st Century Skills
- Habitat Fragmentation
- Global Change
- Critical Thinking Skills
- Habitat Selection
- Instructional Interventions
- Animal Movement
- Teacher Professional Development
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Climate Change90▲ 3.3×71 topics
- Sustainability48▲ 1.96×55 topics
- Epidemiology46▲ 1.16×75 topics
- Educational Technology40▲ 3.4×22 topics
- Biodiversity37▲ 4.9×22 topics
- Education37▲ 2.2×28 topics
- Globalization33▲ 1.65×37 topics
- E-Learning29▲ 3.0×11 topics
- Technology Integration28▲ 8.7×8 topics
- Online Learning27▲ 3.3×9 topics
- Environmental Impact27▲ 1.59×31 topics
- Remote Sensing27▲ 2.2×21 topics
- Renewable Energy25▲ 1.73×28 topics
- Teaching Strategies24▲ 8.4×5 topics
- Mobile Learning22▲ 6.3×4 topics
- Meta-Analysis21▲ 3.5×11 topics
- Invasive Species20▲ 4.8×16 topics
- Social Justice19▲ 3.2×13 topics
- Student Satisfaction19▲ 10×2 topics
- Higher Education18▲ 3.3×14 topics
- Student Engagement18▲ 4.4×10 topics
- Conservation17▲ 3.9×16 topics
- Google Classroom16▲ 16×1 topic
- Teacher Perception16▲ 15×1 topic
- 21st Century Skills16▲ 5.6×6 topics
- Biogeography16▲ 5.6×13 topics
- Habitat Fragmentation15▲ 7.0×5 topics
- Adaptation15▲ 4.9×6 topics
- Global Change15▲ 5.5×5 topics
- Population Dynamics14▲ 5.6×8 topics
- Critical Thinking Skills14▲ 7.8×2 topics
- Nursing Education14▲ 10×2 topics
- Habitat Selection12▲ 17×2 topics
- Higher-Order Thinking12▲ 16×1 topic
- Instructional Interventions12▲ 16×1 topic
- Vulnerability12▲ 5.4×7 topics
- Animal Movement12▲ 23×1 topic
- Occupancy Rates12▲ 23×1 topic
- Teacher Professional Development12▲ 7.2×5 topics
- Model Evaluation11▲ 8.7×2 topics
Malawi
- Global Health
- Livelihood Diversification
- Preexposure Prophylaxis
- Vulnerability
- Gender Inequality
- Water Sanitation Hygiene
- Technology Adoption
- Global Burden of Disease
- Colonialism
- Poverty Reduction
- Rural Development
- Food Security
- Child Development
- Health Systems
- Biodiversity
- Health Inequalities
- Community Health Workers
- Maternal Mortality
- Globalization
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Environmental Impact
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Socio-economic Factors
- Child Mortality
- Smallholder Farmers
- Social Networks
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Global Burden
- Vaccine
- Genetic Diversity
- Mortality Rates
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition
- HIV Transmission
- Viral Load
- Agricultural Innovation
- Stigma and Discrimination
- Market Participation
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology245▲ 1.73×119 topics
- Climate Change202▲ 2.1×103 topics
- Sustainability141▲ 1.62×81 topics
- Globalization99▲ 1.41×86 topics
- Environmental Impact98▲ 1.61×51 topics
- Maternal Mortality91▲ 11×5 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture88▲ 8.0×13 topics
- Community Health Workers87▲ 28×2 topics
- Antiretroviral Therapy80▲ 14×6 topics
- Health Inequalities76▲ 18×4 topics
- Socio-economic Factors75▲ 19×2 topics
- Biodiversity74▲ 2.8×32 topics
- Child Mortality74▲ 29×1 topic
- Health Systems74▲ 29×1 topic
- Smallholder Farmers73▲ 9.8×6 topics
- Child Development72▲ 5.0×8 topics
- Social Networks70▲ 7.2×9 topics
- Food Security65▲ 3.4×20 topics
- Biodiversity Conservation65▲ 4.8×16 topics
- Rural Development64▲ 5.3×15 topics
- Global Burden62▲ 3.2×12 topics
- Poverty Reduction62▲ 13×5 topics
- Vaccine60▲ 4.2×11 topics
- Colonialism58▲ 3.5×17 topics
- Genetic Diversity58▲ 3.8×20 topics
- Global Burden of Disease57▲ 6.5×4 topics
- Mortality Rates53▲ 16×2 topics
- Technology Adoption53▲ 8.0×6 topics
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition52▲ 18×1 topic
- Water Sanitation Hygiene52▲ 18×1 topic
- HIV Transmission51▲ 19×2 topics
- Gender Inequality48▲ 9.7×6 topics
- Viral Load47▲ 17×2 topics
- Vulnerability47▲ 5.7×8 topics
- Agricultural Innovation44▲ 27×3 topics
- Preexposure Prophylaxis44▲ 26×1 topic
- Stigma and Discrimination44▲ 26×1 topic
- Livelihood Diversification44▲ 39×1 topic
- Market Participation44▲ 39×1 topic
- Global Health42▲ 7.6×6 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?
Malawi has out-published Bhutan every year since 1981.
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, Bhutan or Malawi?
Malawi publishes 3.3× as much research as Bhutan in 2022-now (3k against 917 fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Bhutan or Malawi?
9.5% of Malawi's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.9% for Bhutan.
Is Bhutan or Malawi growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +46% against 2018-21 for Malawi, and +32% for Bhutan.
Which has more open access research, Bhutan or Malawi?
74% of Bhutan's research is free to read, against 63% of Malawi's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Bhutan or Malawi?
Bhutan holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Malawi 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
- 1Royal University of Bhutan4.9% top 10% · 586 works
- 2Ministry of Agriculture and Forests5.1% top 10% · 159 works
- 3Centre for Bhutan Studies and GNH Research4.6% top 10% · 103 works
Malawi
- 1University of Malawi9.1% top 10% · 650 works
- 2Kamuzu Central Hospital12.3% top 10% · 279 works
- 3Ministry of Education Science and Technology7.7% top 10% · 312 works
- 4Mzuzu University6.9% top 10% · 241 works
- 5Malawi University of Science and Technology6.9% top 10% · 172 works
- 6Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources11.0% top 10% · 243 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 Sonam Wangchuk #879,489 worldwide 2.1k citations · 81 works
- 2 Karma Tempa #1,298,054 worldwide 366 citations · 27 works
- 3 Rajnish Ratna #1,299,859 worldwide 567 citations · 23 works
- 4 Pem Chuki #1,519,786 worldwide 503 citations · 21 works
- 5 Binay Thapa #1,532,348 worldwide 745 citations · 15 works
Malawi
- 1 Amelia Catharine Crampin #138,780 worldwide 23k citations · 372 works
- 2 Kelias Phiri Msyamboza #162,077 worldwide 12k citations · 53 works
- 3 Eduard E. Zijlstra #238,180 worldwide 4.8k citations · 91 works
- 4 Elsbeth Robson #239,786 worldwide 3k citations · 121 works
- 5 Felix Khuluza #244,579 worldwide 1.6k citations · 40 works