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Bhutan vs New Caledonia

On research quality in 2022-now, New Caledonia ranks #137 in the world and Bhutan #140, of 189 countries.

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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.

New Caledonia

World rank, 2022-now
#137
#126 all time
Works, 2022-now
498
fractional
Top-10% rate
6.0%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
41%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Linguistics and Language, Parasitology, Oceanography.

Who leads, measure by measure?

New Caledonia leads on 6 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work, international co-authorship and growth. Bhutan leads on 2 of 9 measures: output and open access. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Bhutan 21 level6 New Caledonia
  1. #140Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#137
  2. 0.75×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.97×
  3. 917Outputfractional works, 2022-now498
  4. 4.9%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.0%
  5. 8.2Citations per workall time, per fractional work21.3
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 74%Open accessof its works free to read, all time41%
  8. 35%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time50%
  9. +32%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+40%

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

New Caledonia

▲ 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. Globalization74▲ 6.9×46 topics
  2. Climate Change71▲ 4.8×69 topics
  3. Decolonization48▲ 108×5 topics
  4. Sustainability47▲ 3.5×29 topics
  5. Identity35▲ 8.9×21 topics
  6. Colonialism33▲ 13×17 topics
  7. Economic Development32▲ 7.4×9 topics
  8. Vulnerability32▲ 25×7 topics
  9. Governance32▲ 18×8 topics
  10. Sociolinguistics30▲ 30×7 topics
  11. Resilience30▲ 11×7 topics
  12. Pacific27▲ 263×2 topics
  13. Islands27▲ 438×1 topic
  14. Migration27▲ 14×10 topics
  15. Small States27▲ 438×1 topic
  16. Public Health26▲ 3.2×31 topics
  17. Social Justice24▲ 7.4×17 topics
  18. Cultural Diversity24▲ 20×7 topics
  19. Multiculturalism22▲ 22×4 topics
  20. Environmental Impact21▲ 2.3×28 topics
  21. Ethnicity21▲ 10×8 topics
  22. Indigenous Peoples21▲ 151×3 topics
  23. Multilingualism21▲ 24×4 topics
  24. Cultural Defense19▲ 1623×1 topic
  25. Postcolonial Theory19▲ 131×1 topic
  26. Ocean Acidification17▲ 42×3 topics
  27. Population Dynamics17▲ 12×11 topics
  28. Conservation16▲ 6.8×16 topics
  29. Marine Ecosystems16▲ 53×2 topics
  30. Ecosystem Services15▲ 6.9×8 topics
  31. Community Engagement14▲ 7.8×8 topics
  32. Healthcare Access14▲ 9.2×5 topics
  33. Social Inequality14▲ 9.4×6 topics
  34. Nationalism14▲ 5.5×10 topics
  35. Language Policy14▲ 18×3 topics
  36. Vaccine Development13▲ 9.3×8 topics
  37. Discrimination13▲ 11×4 topics
  38. French Territories12▲ 234×1 topic
  39. Migrant Workers12▲ 234×1 topic
  40. Bleaching12▲ 64×1 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 New Caledonia every year since 2019, when it overtook it.

still counting200400Bhutan213 in 2025New Caledonia134 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 2025New Caledonia0.0023% 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 counting10%20%New Caledonia6.6% in 2025Bhutan5.7% 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.

Bhutan 05 level0 New Caledonia
  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 New Caledonia?

Bhutan publishes 1.8× as much research as New Caledonia in 2022-now (917 against 498 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Bhutan or New Caledonia?

6.0% of New Caledonia's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.9% for Bhutan.

Is Bhutan or New Caledonia growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +40% against 2018-21 for New Caledonia, and +32% for Bhutan.

Which has more open access research, Bhutan or New Caledonia?

74% of Bhutan's research is free to read, against 41% of New Caledonia's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Bhutan or New Caledonia?

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

New Caledonia

  1. 1University of New Caledonia4.9% top 10% · 353 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

New Caledonia

  1. 1 Johann D. Bell #196,760 worldwide 12k citations · 139 works
  2. 2 Valérie Allain #399,816 worldwide 3.9k citations · 94 works
  3. 3 Myrielle Dupont‐Rouzeyrol #497,548 worldwide 4k citations · 92 works
  4. 4 Dominique Cluzel #514,954 worldwide 6k citations · 153 works
  5. 5 John Hampton #647,659 worldwide 5.8k citations · 119 works