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British Virgin Islands vs Greenland

On research quality in 2022-now, Greenland ranks #171 in the world and the British Virgin Islands #172, of 189 countries. The British Virgin Islands stands higher in 1 of the 1 fields both publish in, Greenland in 0.

Research profiles alike: 0.17somewhat alike shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured

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British Virgin Islands

World rank, 2022-now
#172
#134 all time
Works, 2022-now
627
fractional
Top-10% rate
2.1%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
4%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Ocean Engineering, Geophysics, Geology.

Greenland

World rank, 2022-now
#171
#138 all time
Works, 2022-now
223
fractional
Top-10% rate
9.1%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
51%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Oceanography.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Greenland leads on 7 of 9 measures: research quality, citation excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work, open access, international co-authorship and growth. The British Virgin Islands leads on 1 of 9 measures: output. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

British Virgin Islands 11 level7 Greenland
  1. #172Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#171
  2. 0.71×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.94×
  3. 627Outputfractional works, 2022-now223
  4. 2.1%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited9.1%
  5. 9.8Citations per workall time, per fractional work20.0
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 4%Open accessof its works free to read, all time51%
  8. 35%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time61%
  9. -68%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+3%

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, citation excellence and the top-10% rate are explained in the methodology.

Who leads in each field?

British Virgin Islands stands higher in 1 of 1 fields, Greenland in 0. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

British Virgin Islands 10 Greenland
  1. #112Engineering-

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 British Virgin Islands rankGreenland rank British Virgin Islands top 10%Greenland top 10% British Virgin Islands worksGreenland works
Engineering #112 - 0.8% - 390 -

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.

British Virgin Islands

▲ 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. Optimization92▲ 31×5 topics
  2. Uncertainty Quantification91▲ 176×2 topics
  3. Data Assimilation91▲ 85×1 topic
  4. Ensemble Kalman Filter91▲ 136×1 topic
  5. Machine Learning90▲ 4.1×20 topics
  6. CO2 Sequestration80▲ 62×4 topics
  7. Vibration Analysis76▲ 43×3 topics
  8. Nanoparticles75▲ 9.1×5 topics
  9. Rheological Properties75▲ 64×2 topics
  10. Drilling Fluids75▲ 217×1 topic
  11. Well Integrity75▲ 217×1 topic
  12. Hydraulic Fracturing74▲ 106×2 topics
  13. Fracture Propagation70▲ 179×1 topic
  14. Shale Gas Reservoirs70▲ 179×1 topic
  15. Fault Diagnosis63▲ 67×3 topics
  16. Predictive Maintenance63▲ 130×3 topics
  17. Data Analytics62▲ 211×2 topics
  18. Artificial Lift Systems62▲ 344×1 topic
  19. Electric Submersible Pumps62▲ 344×1 topic
  20. Geophysical Imaging45▲ 129×2 topics
  21. Inverse Problems42▲ 57×2 topics
  22. Full-Waveform Tomography42▲ 152×1 topic
  23. Seismic Waveform Inversion42▲ 152×1 topic
  24. Shale Gas28▲ 36×2 topics
  25. Gas Permeability24▲ 39×2 topics
  26. Pore Structure24▲ 30×2 topics
  27. Mudstones24▲ 50×1 topic
  28. Thermal Maturity24▲ 50×1 topic
  29. Porous Media14▲ 17×2 topics
  30. Tomography14▲ 12×4 topics
  31. Seismic Noise13▲ 42×1 topic
  32. Surface Wave13▲ 42×1 topic
  33. Pore-scale Modeling11▲ 44×1 topic
  34. X-ray Computed Tomography11▲ 44×1 topic
  35. Geological Conditions9▲ 37×2 topics
  36. Performance Prediction9▲ 20×2 topics
  37. Geological Mapping9▲ 18×2 topics
  38. TBM9▲ 53×1 topic
  39. rock fragmentation9▲ 53×1 topic
  40. Continental Margin9▲ 24×2 topics

Greenland

▲ 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 Change82▲ 12×43 topics
  2. Arctic23▲ 79×4 topics
  3. Food Security21▲ 15×3 topics
  4. Vulnerability19▲ 31×3 topics
  5. Ecological Knowledge19▲ 168×2 topics
  6. Nutrition Transition18▲ 219×2 topics
  7. Arctic Indigenous Peoples18▲ 403×1 topic
  8. Traditional Knowledge18▲ 166×1 topic
  9. Population Dynamics17▲ 25×6 topics
  10. Remote Sensing16▲ 5.0×12 topics
  11. Conservation14▲ 13×12 topics
  12. Sustainability12▲ 1.88×17 topics
  13. Predator-Prey Interactions12▲ 57×2 topics
  14. Acoustic Communication11▲ 84×2 topics
  15. Ocean Circulation11▲ 31×3 topics
  16. Anthropogenic Noise11▲ 147×1 topic
  17. Marine Mammals11▲ 147×1 topic
  18. Fisheries Sustainability10▲ 46×2 topics
  19. Decline10▲ 144×1 topic
  20. Sea Ice10▲ 144×1 topic
  21. Trophic Cascades9▲ 39×2 topics
  22. Governance8▲ 9.3×3 topics
  23. Geopolitics8▲ 19×2 topics
  24. Hydrology8▲ 22×3 topics
  25. International Relations8▲ 12×2 topics
  26. Northern Sea Route7▲ 108×1 topic
  27. Shipping7▲ 57×1 topic
  28. Ecosystem Management7▲ 45×1 topic
  29. Marine Fisheries7▲ 66×1 topic
  30. Invasive Species7▲ 6.0×11 topics
  31. Health Effects6▲ 4.1×14 topics
  32. Permafrost6▲ 51×2 topics
  33. Health Equity5▲ 6.5×4 topics
  34. Biogeography5▲ 6.5×7 topics
  35. Social Sciences4▲ 12×2 topics
  36. Habitat Selection4▲ 22×2 topics
  37. Benthic Communities4▲ 26×2 topics
  38. Marine Biodiversity4▲ 26×2 topics
  39. Decolonization4▲ 19×3 topics
  40. Methane Emissions4▲ 30×2 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?

The British Virgin Islands has out-published Greenland every year since 2025, when it overtook it.

still counting250500750British Virgin Islands64 in 2025Greenland44 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 counting0.010%0.020%0.030%British Virgin Islands0.0011% in 2025Greenland0.00075% 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%Greenland12.0% in 2025British Virgin Islands6.0% 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.

British Virgin Islands 05 level0 Greenland
  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, British Virgin Islands or Greenland?

The British Virgin Islands publishes 2.8× as much research as Greenland in 2022-now (627 against 223 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, British Virgin Islands or Greenland?

9.1% of Greenland's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 2.1% for the British Virgin Islands.

Is British Virgin Islands or Greenland growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +3% against 2018-21 for Greenland, and -68% for the British Virgin Islands.

Which has more open access research, British Virgin Islands or Greenland?

51% of Greenland's research is free to read, against 4% of the British Virgin Islands's.

Which has more world-class institutions, British Virgin Islands or Greenland?

The British Virgin Islands holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Greenland 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%.

Greenland

  1. 1Ilisimatusarfik7.5% top 10% · 99 works
  2. 2Grønlands Naturinstitut11.5% top 10% · 88 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.

British Virgin Islands

  1. 1 Oliver C. Mullins #391,740 worldwide 19k citations · 399 works
  2. 2 William E. Kenyon #708,981 worldwide 2.9k citations · 27 works
  3. 3 M. W. O’Keefe #928,836 worldwide 592 citations · 17 works
  4. 4 Christopher N. Fredd #1,017,027 worldwide 2.9k citations · 45 works
  5. 5 Marc J. Thiercelin #1,070,070 worldwide 3.2k citations · 71 works

Greenland

  1. 1 Lorenz Meire #298,354 worldwide 3.2k citations · 174 works
  2. 2 John Mortensen #323,266 worldwide 3.8k citations · 99 works
  3. 3 Alexandra Messerli #413,578 worldwide 351 citations · 1,945 works
  4. 4 Erik W. Born #443,074 worldwide 11k citations · 227 works
  5. 5 Malene J. Simon #444,230 worldwide 2.8k citations · 88 works