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British Virgin Islands vs Norway

On research quality in 2022-now, Norway ranks #21 in the world and the British Virgin Islands #172, of 189 countries. The British Virgin Islands stands higher in 0 of the 24 fields both publish in, Norway in 24.

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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.

Norway

World rank, 2022-now
#21
#21 all time
Works, 2022-now
81k
fractional
Top-10% rate
12.8%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
47%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Public Administration, Research and Theory, Ocean Engineering.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Norway leads on 7 of 9 measures: research quality, citation 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 Norway
  1. #172Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#21
  2. 0.71×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected1.27×
  3. 627Outputfractional works, 2022-now81k
  4. 2.1%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited12.8%
  5. 9.8Citations per workall time, per fractional work26.2
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 4%Open accessof its works free to read, all time47%
  8. 35%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time31%
  9. -68%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+4%

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 0 of 24 fields, Norway in 24. Norway leads most in Engineering (#21 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 024 Norway
  1. -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#27
  2. -Arts and Humanities#17
  3. -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#23
  4. -Business, Management and Accounting#19
  5. -Chemical Engineering#23
  6. -Chemistry#34
  7. -Computer Science#22
  8. -Decision Sciences#17
  9. -Dentistry#26
  10. -Earth and Planetary Sciences#10
  11. -Economics, Econometrics and Finance#19
  12. -Energy#16
  13. #112Engineering#21
  14. -Environmental Science#13
  15. -Health Professions#16
  16. -Immunology and Microbiology#21
  17. -Materials Science#24
  18. -Mathematics#23
  19. -Medicine#19
  20. -Neuroscience#20
  21. -Nursing#26
  22. -Physics and Astronomy#24
  23. -Psychology#14
  24. -Social Sciences#15

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 rankNorway rank British Virgin Islands top 10%Norway top 10% British Virgin Islands worksNorway works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences - #27 - 12.7% - 2.2k
Arts and Humanities - #17 - 14.9% - 3.2k
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - #23 - 10.9% - 3.3k
Business, Management and Accounting - #19 - 14.4% - 2.5k
Chemical Engineering - #23 - 8.5% - 238
Chemistry - #34 - 8.5% - 541
Computer Science - #22 - 12.7% - 5.1k
Decision Sciences - #17 - 13.0% - 1.2k
Dentistry - #26 - 13.2% - 273
Earth and Planetary Sciences - #10 - 11.8% - 2.6k
Economics, Econometrics and Finance - #19 - 13.1% - 1.7k
Energy - #16 - 11.6% - 710
Engineering #112 #21 0.8% 10.1% 390 11k
Environmental Science - #13 - 11.2% - 5.9k
Health Professions - #16 - 13.1% - 3.1k
Immunology and Microbiology - #21 - 12.2% - 773
Materials Science - #24 - 9.8% - 1.2k
Mathematics - #23 - 12.6% - 749
Medicine - #19 - 14.0% - 14k
Neuroscience - #20 - 11.1% - 1.4k
Nursing - #26 - 12.6% - 356
Physics and Astronomy - #24 - 10.2% - 1.3k
Psychology - #14 - 13.7% - 5.1k
Social Sciences - #15 - 15.5% - 13k

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

Norway

▲ 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 Change4,529▲ 1.81×130 topics
  2. Epidemiology3,392◆ 0.93×140 topics
  3. Sustainability2,832▲ 1.26×137 topics
  4. Machine Learning2,813◆ 0.92×97 topics
  5. Deep Learning2,229▼ 0.70×85 topics
  6. Globalization2,190▲ 1.21×181 topics
  7. Mental Health2,024▲ 1.54×48 topics
  8. Renewable Energy1,984▲ 1.49×61 topics
  9. Environmental Impact1,867▲ 1.19×74 topics
  10. Public Health1,651▲ 1.23×76 topics
  11. Inflammation1,586▼ 0.81×83 topics
  12. Education1,547◆ 0.98×157 topics
  13. Quality of Life1,464◆ 1.10×61 topics
  14. Remote Sensing1,286◆ 1.14×40 topics
  15. Depression1,172▲ 1.45×26 topics
  16. Cardiovascular Disease1,141◆ 1.09×39 topics
  17. Human Rights1,138▲ 1.21×88 topics
  18. Risk Factors1,114◆ 1.10×37 topics
  19. Ethics917▲ 1.97×59 topics
  20. Resilience899▲ 1.99×19 topics
  21. Democracy824▲ 2.6×30 topics
  22. Global Warming762▲ 1.94×16 topics
  23. Embodiment756▲ 4.4×7 topics
  24. Religion751▲ 1.76×43 topics
  25. Invasive Species740▲ 1.90×21 topics
  26. Well-being708▲ 1.98×14 topics
  27. Aquaculture699▲ 3.0×8 topics
  28. Tacit Knowledge638▲ 15×3 topics
  29. Arctic600▲ 5.9×4 topics
  30. Ethical Guidelines519▲ 11×4 topics
  31. Social Science508▲ 15×7 topics
  32. Ocean Circulation494▲ 3.9×3 topics
  33. Pragmatism481▲ 21×4 topics
  34. Dementia Care473▲ 42×2 topics
  35. Interactional Expertise460▲ 46×1 topic
  36. Technical Decision-making460▲ 46×1 topic
  37. Fisheries Sustainability459▲ 5.8×2 topics
  38. Constitutionalism432▲ 5.3×6 topics
  39. ECHR375▲ 12×1 topic
  40. European Legal Systems375▲ 12×1 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?

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

still counting10k20k30kNorway20k 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 counting0.20%0.40%0.60%Norway0.35% 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%Norway12.0% 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 02 level3 Norway
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 0In the top 5003
  4. 0In the top 1,0007
  5. #51Elite capacityrank among 204 countries#23

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 Norway?

Norway publishes 129.3× as much research as the British Virgin Islands in 2022-now (81k against 627 fractional works).

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

12.8% of Norway's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 2.1% for the British Virgin Islands.

Is British Virgin Islands or Norway growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +4% against 2018-21 for Norway, and -68% for the British Virgin Islands.

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

47% of Norway's research is free to read, against 4% of the British Virgin Islands's.

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

The British Virgin Islands holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Norway 0; in the top 1,000 it is 0 against 7.

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%.

Norway

  1. 1Norwegian University of Science and Technology13.6% top 10% · 12k works
  2. 2University of Oslo14.4% top 10% · 13k works
  3. 3University of Bergen13.1% top 10% · 6.5k works
  4. 4University of Stavanger14.0% top 10% · 3.2k works
  5. 5UiT The Arctic University of Norway12.1% top 10% · 3.7k works
  6. 6Norwegian Institute of Public Health15.2% top 10% · 1k 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

Norway

  1. 1 Amandeep Dhir #8 worldwide 33k citations · 319 works
  2. 2 Glen P. Peters #264 worldwide 69k citations · 451 works
  3. 3 Puneet Kaur #1,322 worldwide 18k citations · 209 works
  4. 4 Edvard Ingjald Moser #1,526 worldwide 53k citations · 437 works
  5. 5 Simon Elias Bibri #1,816 worldwide 12k citations · 146 works

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