Botswana vs Papua New Guinea
On research quality in 2022-now, Botswana ranks #92 in the world and Papua New Guinea #125, of 189 countries. Botswana stands higher in 6 of the 6 fields both publish in, Papua New Guinea in 0.
Research profiles alike: 0.75very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured
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Botswana
- World rank, 2022-now
- #92
- #91 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 3k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 8.5%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 47%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Archeology, Forestry, Statistics and Probability.
Papua New Guinea
- World rank, 2022-now
- #125
- #125 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 764
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 7.2%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 35%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Horticulture, Agronomy and Crop Science, Theoretical Computer Science.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Botswana leads on 5 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate and open access. Papua New Guinea leads on 3 of 9 measures: citations per work, international co-authorship and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.
- #92Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#125
- 0.90×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.85×
- 3kOutputfractional works, 2022-now764
- 8.5%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited7.2%
- 12.4Citations per workall time, per fractional work14.9
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 47%Open accessof its works free to read, all time35%
- 33%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time38%
- +16%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+48%
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?
Botswana stands higher in 6 of 6 fields, Papua New Guinea in 0. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- #80Agricultural and Biological Sciences-
- #101Computer Science-
- #75Engineering-
- #69Environmental Science-
- #86Medicine-
- #114Social 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 | Botswana rank | Papua New Guinea rank | Botswana top 10% | Papua New Guinea top 10% | Botswana works | Papua New Guinea works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | #80 | - | 10.7% | - | 308 | - |
| Computer Science | #101 | - | 7.0% | - | 208 | - |
| Engineering | #75 | - | 10.7% | - | 360 | - |
| Environmental Science | #69 | - | 8.7% | - | 284 | - |
| Medicine | #86 | - | 9.0% | - | 335 | - |
| Social Sciences | #114 | - | 7.4% | - | 471 | - |
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.
Botswana
- HIV Transmission
- Child Mortality
- Livelihoods
- Generalized Exponential
- Land Reform
- Nutritional Value
- Health Inequalities
- Community Health Workers
- Land Use Change
- Smallholder Farmers
- Adaptation
- Higher Education
- Risk Management
- Development
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Economic Growth
- Renewable Energy
- Environmental Impact
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
- Machine Learning
- Globalization
- Deep Learning
- Remote Sensing
- Colonialism
- Social Justice
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Genetic Diversity
- Political Economy
- Poverty Reduction
- Maternal Mortality
- Bayesian Inference
- Mortality Rates
- Gender Inequality
- Weibull Distribution
- Skew Distributions
- Phytochemicals
- Health Systems
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Climate Change192▲ 2.1×87 topics
- Sustainability159▲ 1.89×75 topics
- Machine Learning144▲ 1.26×77 topics
- Epidemiology104▼ 0.76×111 topics
- Globalization95▲ 1.40×72 topics
- Environmental Impact91▲ 1.55×52 topics
- Deep Learning89▼ 0.76×67 topics
- Renewable Energy73▲ 1.46×40 topics
- Remote Sensing70▲ 1.67×31 topics
- Economic Growth66▲ 2.4×27 topics
- Colonialism66▲ 4.0×14 topics
- Antiretroviral Therapy48▲ 8.6×6 topics
- Social Justice47▲ 2.3×26 topics
- Development46▲ 3.8×19 topics
- Biodiversity Conservation46▲ 3.6×13 topics
- Risk Management46▲ 2.8×13 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture44▲ 4.1×12 topics
- Higher Education42▲ 2.3×17 topics
- Genetic Diversity41▲ 2.7×20 topics
- Adaptation40▲ 4.0×11 topics
- Political Economy40▲ 4.5×11 topics
- Smallholder Farmers37▲ 5.1×5 topics
- Poverty Reduction36▲ 8.1×5 topics
- Land Use Change35▲ 3.4×7 topics
- Maternal Mortality31▲ 4.1×5 topics
- Community Health Workers31▲ 10×2 topics
- Bayesian Inference30▲ 8.9×4 topics
- Health Inequalities28▲ 6.8×3 topics
- Mortality Rates28▲ 8.5×2 topics
- Nutritional Value27▲ 7.0×4 topics
- Gender Inequality27▲ 5.7×6 topics
- Land Reform27▲ 17×2 topics
- Weibull Distribution26▲ 17×2 topics
- Generalized Exponential25▲ 44×1 topic
- Skew Distributions25▲ 44×1 topic
- Livelihoods25▲ 21×2 topics
- Phytochemicals25▲ 6.7×7 topics
- Child Mortality25▲ 10×1 topic
- Health Systems25▲ 10×1 topic
- HIV Transmission23▲ 8.7×2 topics
Papua New Guinea
- Health Systems
- Essential Oils
- Islands
- Pacific
- Climate Resilience
- Pacific Islands
- Community Health Workers
- Island Ecosystems
- Maternal Mortality
- Smallholder Farmers
- Ethical Considerations
- Nutritional Quality
- Drought Tolerance
- Agriculture
- Economic Development
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Vulnerability
- Machine Learning
- Genetic Diversity
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
- Environmental Impact
- Epidemiology
- Globalization
- Biodiversity
- Supply Chain Management
- Genetics
- Breeding
- Food Security
- Governance
- Decolonization
- Archaeology
- Pest Management
- Cultural History
- Health Inequalities
- settlement
- Marker Development
- Socio-economic Factors
- Small States
- Child Mortality
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Climate Change63▲ 2.6×71 topics
- Sustainability62▲ 2.8×52 topics
- Environmental Impact50▲ 3.2×43 topics
- Genetic Diversity45▲ 11×19 topics
- Epidemiology42▲ 1.16×77 topics
- Machine Learning41▲ 1.35×61 topics
- Globalization36▲ 2.0×34 topics
- Vulnerability22▲ 10×7 topics
- Biodiversity22▲ 3.1×24 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture20▲ 7.2×13 topics
- Supply Chain Management20▲ 2.4×14 topics
- Economic Development19▲ 2.6×16 topics
- Genetics19▲ 3.0×18 topics
- Agriculture19▲ 5.4×10 topics
- Breeding18▲ 27×5 topics
- Drought Tolerance18▲ 15×8 topics
- Food Security17▲ 3.5×20 topics
- Nutritional Quality16▲ 25×4 topics
- Governance15▲ 5.2×8 topics
- Ethical Considerations15▲ 4.8×11 topics
- Decolonization15▲ 20×5 topics
- Smallholder Farmers14▲ 7.4×6 topics
- Archaeology13▲ 11×2 topics
- Maternal Mortality13▲ 6.4×5 topics
- Pest Management13▲ 17×5 topics
- Island Ecosystems13▲ 44×2 topics
- Cultural History13▲ 12×2 topics
- Community Health Workers12▲ 16×2 topics
- Health Inequalities12▲ 11×3 topics
- Pacific Islands12▲ 113×1 topic
- settlement12▲ 113×1 topic
- Climate Resilience12▲ 22×3 topics
- Marker Development12▲ 28×3 topics
- Pacific12▲ 70×2 topics
- Socio-economic Factors12▲ 12×2 topics
- Islands12▲ 117×1 topic
- Small States12▲ 117×1 topic
- Essential Oils12▲ 12×3 topics
- Child Mortality12▲ 18×1 topic
- Health Systems12▲ 18×1 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?
Botswana has out-published Papua New Guinea every year since 1997, 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, Botswana or Papua New Guinea?
Botswana publishes 3.9× as much research as Papua New Guinea in 2022-now (3k against 764 fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Botswana or Papua New Guinea?
8.5% of Botswana's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 7.2% for Papua New Guinea.
Is Botswana or Papua New Guinea growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +48% against 2018-21 for Papua New Guinea, and +16% for Botswana.
Which has more open access research, Botswana or Papua New Guinea?
47% of Botswana's research is free to read, against 35% of Papua New Guinea's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Botswana or Papua New Guinea?
Botswana holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Papua New Guinea 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%.
Botswana
- 1University of Botswana7.6% top 10% · 1.4k works
- 2Botswana International University of Science and Technology8.6% top 10% · 674 works
- 3Botswana Geoscience Institute8.8% top 10% · 116 works
- 4Botho University8.5% top 10% · 148 works
- 5Ministry of Agriculture14.6% top 10% · 169 works
- 6Botswana Open University3.9% top 10% · 76 works
Papua New Guinea
- 1Papua New Guinea University of Technology6.3% top 10% · 258 works
- 2University of Papua New Guinea7.8% top 10% · 106 works
- 3National Agricultural Research Institute7.3% top 10% · 200 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.
Botswana
- 1 Godfrey Mutashambara Rwegerera #31,057 worldwide 54k citations · 105 works
- 2 John Weldon McNutt #207,426 worldwide 5.3k citations · 119 works
- 3 Joseph M. Makhema #280,791 worldwide 14k citations · 95 works
- 4 Peter Vuylsteke #396,259 worldwide 7.7k citations · 317 works
- 5 Sununguko Wata Mpoloka #453,404 worldwide 2.7k citations · 62 works
Papua New Guinea
- 1 Leanne J. Robinson #111,710 worldwide 7.4k citations · 206 works
- 2 Livingstone Tavul #186,317 worldwide 3k citations · 52 works
- 3 Enmoore Lin #330,527 worldwide 4.6k citations · 77 works
- 4 Peter Siba #342,115 worldwide 8.8k citations · 200 works
- 5 Michael P. Alpers #352,550 worldwide 16k citations · 278 works