Burkina Faso vs Cameroon
On research quality in 2022-now, Burkina Faso ranks #116 in the world and Cameroon #133, of 189 countries. Burkina Faso stands higher in 4 of the 17 fields both publish in, Cameroon in 13.
Research profiles alike: 0.84very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured
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Burkina Faso
- World rank, 2022-now
- #116
- #94 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 4.4k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 6.1%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 66%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Horticulture, Forestry, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.
Cameroon
- World rank, 2022-now
- #133
- #103 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 14k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 6.3%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 65%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Horticulture, Forestry, Medical Terminology.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Burkina Faso leads on 3 of 9 measures: research quality, international co-authorship and growth. Cameroon leads on 3 of 9 measures: citation excellence for its fields, output and citations per work. The two are level on top-10% rate, institutions in the world top 100 and open access.
- #116Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#133
- 0.59×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.64×
- 4.4kOutputfractional works, 2022-now14k
- 6.1%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.3%
- 10.1Citations per workall time, per fractional work12.2
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 66%Open accessof its works free to read, all time65%
- 42%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time34%
- +57%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+29%
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?
Burkina Faso stands higher in 4 of 17 fields, Cameroon in 13. Cameroon leads most in Engineering (#115 against #127); Burkina Faso leads most in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#72 against #101). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- #72Agricultural and Biological Sciences#101
- -Arts and Humanities#102
- -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#77
- -Business, Management and Accounting#104
- -Computer Science#120
- -Earth and Planetary Sciences#74
- -Economics, Econometrics and Finance#83
- #127Engineering#115
- #99Environmental Science#107
- -Health Professions#99
- -Immunology and Microbiology#63
- -Materials Science#85
- -Mathematics#79
- #96Medicine#107
- -Physics and Astronomy#73
- -Psychology#102
- #130Social Sciences#138
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 | Burkina Faso rank | Cameroon rank | Burkina Faso top 10% | Cameroon top 10% | Burkina Faso works | Cameroon works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | #72 | #101 | 6.5% | 5.8% | 964 | 2k |
| Arts and Humanities | - | #102 | - | 5.5% | - | 323 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | - | #77 | - | 5.0% | - | 520 |
| Business, Management and Accounting | - | #104 | - | 4.8% | - | 420 |
| Computer Science | - | #120 | - | 7.7% | - | 807 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | - | #74 | - | 5.9% | - | 381 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | - | #83 | - | 9.7% | - | 686 |
| Engineering | #127 | #115 | 6.0% | 7.1% | 354 | 1.3k |
| Environmental Science | #99 | #107 | 5.6% | 6.2% | 259 | 962 |
| Health Professions | - | #99 | - | 10.2% | - | 389 |
| Immunology and Microbiology | - | #63 | - | 5.0% | - | 202 |
| Materials Science | - | #85 | - | 5.0% | - | 271 |
| Mathematics | - | #79 | - | 4.8% | - | 202 |
| Medicine | #96 | #107 | 4.2% | 4.8% | 1k | 2.5k |
| Physics and Astronomy | - | #73 | - | 5.8% | - | 408 |
| Psychology | - | #102 | - | 4.9% | - | 237 |
| Social Sciences | #130 | #138 | 12.5% | 7.7% | 354 | 1.7k |
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.
Burkina Faso
- Drought Tolerance
- Child Mortality
- Community Health Workers
- Plasmodium falciparum
- Medicinal Plants
- Vaccine
- Vector Control
- Insecticide Resistance
- Genetic Diversity
- Environmental Impact
- Indigenous Fruits
- Vaccine Development
- Agroforestry
- Climate Resilience
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Multifunctionality
- Livestock Farming
- Diversity
- Sustainability
- Smallholder Farmers
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Adaptation
- Agroecology
- Agricultural Development
- Work Organization
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Public Health
- Nutritional Value
- Rural Livelihoods
- Tree Domestication
- Global Burden
- Immune Response
- Governance
- Genome Sequence
- Maternal Mortality
- Artemisinin Resistance
- Health Inequalities
- Socio-economic Factors
- Health Systems
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology493▲ 2.4×122 topics
- Smallholder Farmers430▲ 40×6 topics
- Climate Change429▲ 3.1×88 topics
- Sustainability391▲ 3.1×78 topics
- Adaptation280▲ 18×10 topics
- Diversity265▲ 30×9 topics
- Agroecology254▲ 35×3 topics
- Livestock Farming248▲ 82×3 topics
- Agricultural Development247▲ 32×4 topics
- Multifunctionality245▲ 103×2 topics
- Work Organization245▲ 124×1 topic
- Sustainable Agriculture210▲ 13×11 topics
- Biodiversity Conservation200▲ 10×16 topics
- Climate Resilience186▲ 61×2 topics
- Public Health185▲ 2.5×58 topics
- Agroforestry182▲ 53×3 topics
- Nutritional Value177▲ 31×4 topics
- Vaccine Development160▲ 12×11 topics
- Rural Livelihoods155▲ 56×2 topics
- Indigenous Fruits154▲ 131×1 topic
- Tree Domestication154▲ 131×1 topic
- Environmental Impact152▲ 1.74×59 topics
- Global Burden131▲ 4.7×12 topics
- Genetic Diversity128▲ 5.8×20 topics
- Immune Response107▲ 3.7×21 topics
- Insecticide Resistance98▲ 24×4 topics
- Governance95▲ 5.7×10 topics
- Vector Control94▲ 16×4 topics
- Genome Sequence93▲ 22×4 topics
- Vaccine90▲ 4.4×11 topics
- Maternal Mortality89▲ 7.8×5 topics
- Medicinal Plants87▲ 4.4×17 topics
- Artemisinin Resistance77▲ 46×1 topic
- Plasmodium falciparum77▲ 46×1 topic
- Health Inequalities76▲ 12×4 topics
- Community Health Workers74▲ 16×2 topics
- Socio-economic Factors71▲ 12×2 topics
- Child Mortality71▲ 19×1 topic
- Health Systems71▲ 19×1 topic
- Drought Tolerance65▲ 9.1×8 topics
Cameroon
- Tree Domestication
- Rural Livelihoods
- Vaccine Development
- Mobile Phones
- Poverty Reduction
- Anti-inflammatory
- ICT
- Institutional Quality
- Agroforestry
- Genetic Diversity
- Medicinal Plants
- Work Organization
- Multifunctionality
- Livestock Farming
- Agroecology
- Antioxidant
- Adaptation
- Renewable Energy
- Smallholder Farmers
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Environmental Impact
- Globalization
- Diversity
- Economic Growth
- Agricultural Development
- Governance
- Economic Development
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Global Burden
- Inequality
- Nutritional Value
- Climate Resilience
- Knowledge Economy
- Inclusive Development
- financial access
- Flavonoids
- Indigenous Fruits
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology981▲ 1.49×138 topics
- Climate Change918▲ 2.0×105 topics
- Sustainability787▲ 1.94×96 topics
- Smallholder Farmers612▲ 17×6 topics
- Environmental Impact485▲ 1.72×59 topics
- Renewable Energy466▲ 1.94×49 topics
- Globalization465▲ 1.43×120 topics
- Adaptation455▲ 9.2×15 topics
- Diversity382▲ 13×10 topics
- Antioxidant375▲ 3.3×50 topics
- Economic Growth374▲ 2.8×30 topics
- Agroecology373▲ 16×5 topics
- Agricultural Development364▲ 14×6 topics
- Livestock Farming363▲ 37×3 topics
- Governance362▲ 6.7×16 topics
- Multifunctionality360▲ 47×2 topics
- Economic Development360▲ 2.7×38 topics
- Work Organization359▲ 56×1 topic
- Biodiversity Conservation347▲ 5.6×16 topics
- Medicinal Plants332▲ 5.2×19 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture284▲ 5.5×15 topics
- Genetic Diversity271▲ 3.8×21 topics
- Global Burden267▲ 3.0×12 topics
- Agroforestry257▲ 23×4 topics
- Inequality252▲ 6.7×15 topics
- Institutional Quality250▲ 14×3 topics
- Nutritional Value239▲ 13×5 topics
- ICT238▲ 11×5 topics
- Climate Resilience227▲ 23×3 topics
- Anti-inflammatory222▲ 4.7×29 topics
- Knowledge Economy218▲ 12×9 topics
- Poverty Reduction209▲ 9.7×5 topics
- Inclusive Development207▲ 29×2 topics
- Mobile Phones206▲ 27×1 topic
- financial access206▲ 31×1 topic
- Vaccine Development201▲ 4.7×11 topics
- Flavonoids193▲ 4.6×12 topics
- Rural Livelihoods191▲ 21×3 topics
- Indigenous Fruits190▲ 50×1 topic
- Tree Domestication190▲ 50×1 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?
Cameroon has out-published Burkina Faso every year since 1980.
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, Burkina Faso or Cameroon?
Cameroon publishes 3.2× as much research as Burkina Faso in 2022-now (14k against 4.4k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Burkina Faso or Cameroon?
6.3% of Cameroon's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.1% for Burkina Faso.
Is Burkina Faso or Cameroon growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +57% against 2018-21 for Burkina Faso, and +29% for Cameroon.
Which has more open access research, Burkina Faso or Cameroon?
66% of Burkina Faso's research is free to read, against 65% of Cameroon's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Burkina Faso or Cameroon?
Burkina Faso holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Cameroon 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%.
Burkina Faso
- 1Nazi Boni University4.8% top 10% · 494 works
- 2Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo4.7% top 10% · 1.2k works
- 3Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé8.0% top 10% · 311 works
- 4Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique5.3% top 10% · 308 works
- 5University of Koudougou4.7% top 10% · 323 works
- 6Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Yalgado Ouédraogo2.1% top 10% · 295 works
Cameroon
- 1University of Ngaoundéré4.4% top 10% · 870 works
- 2University of Douala5.5% top 10% · 1.6k works
- 3Université de Dschang8.3% top 10% · 2.1k works
- 4University of Bamenda6.4% top 10% · 1.2k works
- 5University of Buea6.2% top 10% · 1.5k works
- 6Université de Yaoundé I5.2% top 10% · 3k 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.
Burkina Faso
- 1 Roch K. Dabiré #139,840 worldwide 11k citations · 440 works
- 2 Issaka Zongo #163,227 worldwide 5.1k citations · 111 works
- 3 N’Falé Sagnon #169,485 worldwide 5.6k citations · 113 works
- 4 Hermann Sorgho #169,773 worldwide 5k citations · 133 works
- 5 Antoine Sanou #178,067 worldwide 1.6k citations · 61 works
Cameroon
- 1 Simplice Anutechia Asongu #20,207 worldwide 26k citations · 1,463 works
- 2 Magellan Tchouakui #44,816 worldwide 2.4k citations · 117 works
- 3 Jean Jacques Noubiap #50,405 worldwide 171k citations · 401 works
- 4 Vanessa Simen Tchamyou #65,850 worldwide 4.4k citations · 111 works
- 5 Duncan W. Thomas #75,030 worldwide 12k citations · 102 works