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British Virgin Islands vs Kuwait

On research quality in 2022-now, Kuwait ranks #104 in the world and the British Virgin Islands #172, of 189 countries. The British Virgin Islands stands higher in 0 of the 11 fields both publish in, Kuwait in 11.

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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.

Kuwait

World rank, 2022-now
#104
#137 all time
Works, 2022-now
9.9k
fractional
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
40%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Ocean Engineering, Microbiology, Numerical Analysis.

Who leads, measure by measure?

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

British Virgin Islands 11 level7 Kuwait
  1. #172Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#104
  2. 0.71×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.82×
  3. 627Outputfractional works, 2022-now9.9k
  4. 2.1%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited10.3%
  5. 9.8Citations per workall time, per fractional work14.4
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 4%Open accessof its works free to read, all time40%
  8. 35%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time32%
  9. -68%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+33%

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?

British Virgin Islands stands higher in 0 of 11 fields, Kuwait in 11. Kuwait leads most in Engineering (#74 against #112). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

British Virgin Islands 011 Kuwait
  1. -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#86
  2. -Business, Management and Accounting#82
  3. -Computer Science#86
  4. -Economics, Econometrics and Finance#92
  5. #112Engineering#74
  6. -Environmental Science#96
  7. -Health Professions#87
  8. -Materials Science#68
  9. -Medicine#106
  10. -Psychology#89
  11. -Social Sciences#125

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 rankKuwait rank British Virgin Islands top 10%Kuwait top 10% British Virgin Islands worksKuwait works
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - #86 - 7.9% - 375
Business, Management and Accounting - #82 - 17.1% - 408
Computer Science - #86 - 14.0% - 812
Economics, Econometrics and Finance - #92 - 13.9% - 243
Engineering #112 #74 0.8% 9.7% 390 2k
Environmental Science - #96 - 9.2% - 492
Health Professions - #87 - 11.5% - 214
Materials Science - #68 - 9.9% - 277
Medicine - #106 - 7.2% - 2.2k
Psychology - #89 - 11.3% - 268
Social Sciences - #125 - 11.3% - 1.1k

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

Kuwait

▲ 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. Epidemiology571▲ 1.25×135 topics
  2. Machine Learning541▲ 1.42×94 topics
  3. Deep Learning396◆ 1.00×82 topics
  4. Sustainability275◆ 0.98×91 topics
  5. Renewable Energy266▲ 1.60×49 topics
  6. Inflammation250◆ 1.03×83 topics
  7. Education215◆ 1.09×74 topics
  8. Environmental Impact214◆ 1.09×58 topics
  9. Treatment212▲ 1.52×51 topics
  10. Heat Transfer211▲ 3.8×19 topics
  11. Healthcare208▲ 1.59×26 topics
  12. Nanoparticles202▲ 1.39×43 topics
  13. Diagnosis194▲ 1.82×41 topics
  14. COVID-19184▲ 1.23×32 topics
  15. Cardiovascular Disease180▲ 1.38×38 topics
  16. Optimization174▲ 3.4×26 topics
  17. Supply Chain Management171▲ 1.66×23 topics
  18. Energy Efficiency168▲ 1.58×42 topics
  19. Risk Management165▲ 3.0×17 topics
  20. Online Learning160▲ 1.68×24 topics
  21. Corporate Governance149▲ 1.77×24 topics
  22. Data Assimilation133▲ 7.1×4 topics
  23. Islamic Education128▲ 3.4×4 topics
  24. Ensemble Kalman Filter125▲ 11×2 topics
  25. Uncertainty Quantification121▲ 13×2 topics
  26. Hydraulic Fracturing118▲ 9.6×2 topics
  27. Vibration Analysis118▲ 3.8×9 topics
  28. Closed-Loop Control116▲ 23×1 topic
  29. Well Placement116▲ 23×1 topic
  30. Experimental Investigation113▲ 9.5×5 topics
  31. Fracture Propagation111▲ 16×1 topic
  32. Shale Gas Reservoirs111▲ 16×1 topic
  33. Nanofluids108▲ 11×2 topics
  34. Rheological Properties102▲ 5.0×6 topics
  35. CO2 Sequestration101▲ 4.5×4 topics
  36. Thermal Conductivity90▲ 4.9×8 topics
  37. Review90▲ 6.5×4 topics
  38. Drilling Fluids83▲ 14×1 topic
  39. Well Integrity83▲ 14×1 topic
  40. Viscosity70▲ 8.7×3 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?

Kuwait has out-published the British Virgin Islands every year since 1980.

still counting1k2k3kKuwait2,814 in 2025British Virgin Islands64 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 counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Kuwait0.048% in 2025British Virgin Islands0.0011% 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%Kuwait11.4% 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 Kuwait
  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 Kuwait?

Kuwait publishes 15.8× as much research as the British Virgin Islands in 2022-now (9.9k against 627 fractional works).

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

10.3% of Kuwait's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 2.1% for the British Virgin Islands.

Is British Virgin Islands or Kuwait growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +33% against 2018-21 for Kuwait, and -68% for the British Virgin Islands.

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

40% of Kuwait's research is free to read, against 4% of the British Virgin Islands's.

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

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

Kuwait

  1. 1American University of the Middle East18.6% top 10% · 1.3k works
  2. 2Gulf University for Science & Technology22.2% top 10% · 693 works
  3. 3Kuwait College of Science and Technology15.0% top 10% · 434 works
  4. 4Kuwait University8.7% top 10% · 2.3k works
  5. 5Public Authority for Applied Education and Training7.1% top 10% · 658 works
  6. 6Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah7.1% top 10% · 435 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

Kuwait

  1. 1 Orhan Dönmez #35,990 worldwide 1.6k citations · 161 works
  2. 2 Yehia Ibrahim Alzoubi #65,602 worldwide 1.8k citations · 78 works
  3. 3 Waleed Al–Herz #102,870 worldwide 16k citations · 185 works
  4. 4 Ali M. Al-Hemoud #132,210 worldwide 2.4k citations · 82 works
  5. 5 Ismaeel Al Ridhawi #148,327 worldwide 3.3k citations · 97 works