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Burundi vs Tajikistan

On research quality in 2022-now, Burundi ranks #175 in the world and Tajikistan #189, of 189 countries. Burundi stands higher in 1 of the 14 fields both publish in, Tajikistan in 13.

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Burundi

World rank, 2022-now
#175
#157 all time
Works, 2022-now
1.4k
fractional
Top-10% rate
8.9%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
54%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Linguistics and Language, History and Philosophy of Science, Horticulture.

Tajikistan

World rank, 2022-now
#189
#203 all time
Works, 2022-now
7.1k
fractional
Top-10% rate
7.3%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
44%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Development, Filtration and Separation, Fuel Technology.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Burundi leads on 5 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work and open access. Tajikistan leads on 3 of 9 measures: output, international co-authorship and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Burundi 51 level3 Tajikistan
  1. #175Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#189
  2. 1.01×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.35×
  3. 1.4kOutputfractional works, 2022-now7.1k
  4. 8.9%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited7.3%
  5. 15.1Citations per workall time, per fractional work5.4
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 54%Open accessof its works free to read, all time44%
  8. 53%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time73%
  9. +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?

Burundi stands higher in 1 of 14 fields, Tajikistan in 13. Burundi leads most in Social Sciences (#132 against #141). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Burundi 113 Tajikistan
  1. -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#124
  2. -Arts and Humanities#100
  3. -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#105
  4. -Business, Management and Accounting#110
  5. -Computer Science#128
  6. -Earth and Planetary Sciences#75
  7. -Economics, Econometrics and Finance#106
  8. -Engineering#131
  9. -Environmental Science#122
  10. -Materials Science#86
  11. -Mathematics#77
  12. -Medicine#149
  13. -Physics and Astronomy#76
  14. #132Social Sciences#141

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 Burundi rankTajikistan rank Burundi top 10%Tajikistan top 10% Burundi worksTajikistan works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences - #124 - 8.6% - 301
Arts and Humanities - #100 - 8.4% - 428
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - #105 - 6.9% - 294
Business, Management and Accounting - #110 - 6.9% - 223
Computer Science - #128 - 7.2% - 354
Earth and Planetary Sciences - #75 - 4.1% - 315
Economics, Econometrics and Finance - #106 - 10.0% - 291
Engineering - #131 - 6.7% - 689
Environmental Science - #122 - 8.2% - 317
Materials Science - #86 - 6.6% - 204
Mathematics - #77 - 6.4% - 248
Medicine - #149 - 5.7% - 733
Physics and Astronomy - #76 - 6.7% - 273
Social Sciences #132 #141 11.2% 8.2% 376 1.8k

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.

Burundi

▲ 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. Globalization80▲ 2.4×92 topics
  2. Climate Change79▲ 1.72×89 topics
  3. Sustainability62▲ 1.49×66 topics
  4. Sustainable Development54▲ 2.0×41 topics
  5. Social Justice54▲ 5.3×30 topics
  6. Gender47▲ 5.2×41 topics
  7. Education47▲ 1.60×72 topics
  8. Community Engagement44▲ 8.1×13 topics
  9. Colonialism44▲ 5.5×36 topics
  10. Public Policy42▲ 5.3×16 topics
  11. Territorial Governance41▲ 21×4 topics
  12. History40▲ 3.4×53 topics
  13. Local Development40▲ 23×2 topics
  14. Identity40▲ 3.2×54 topics
  15. Smallholder Farmers36▲ 10×5 topics
  16. Religion35▲ 4.4×27 topics
  17. Citizen Participation31▲ 16×1 topic
  18. Environmental Participation31▲ 26×1 topic
  19. Gender Studies30▲ 12×9 topics
  20. Sociolinguistics30▲ 9.6×8 topics
  21. Ethics28▲ 3.3×31 topics
  22. Social Movements27▲ 5.4×17 topics
  23. Migration26▲ 4.5×17 topics
  24. Democracy26▲ 4.4×14 topics
  25. Agroecology26▲ 11×4 topics
  26. Adaptation25▲ 5.0×11 topics
  27. Diversity24▲ 7.9×8 topics
  28. Multilingualism22▲ 8.2×5 topics
  29. Agricultural Development22▲ 8.5×5 topics
  30. Islam21▲ 6.1×5 topics
  31. Livestock Farming21▲ 21×2 topics
  32. Multifunctionality21▲ 27×2 topics
  33. Work Organization21▲ 32×1 topic
  34. Ethnographic Research21▲ 25×3 topics
  35. Educational Policies20▲ 11×2 topics
  36. Sociological Analysis20▲ 22×2 topics
  37. Professional Practices20▲ 34×1 topic
  38. Public Action20▲ 34×1 topic
  39. Social Change19▲ 9.3×11 topics
  40. Archaeology19▲ 8.7×10 topics

Tajikistan

▲ 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. Globalization592▲ 3.7×123 topics
  2. Climate Change469▲ 2.1×104 topics
  3. Sustainable Development463▲ 3.6×85 topics
  4. Digital Transformation363▲ 8.3×24 topics
  5. Economic Development341▲ 5.3×45 topics
  6. Innovation332▲ 4.0×63 topics
  7. Artificial Intelligence313▲ 2.7×61 topics
  8. Social Media296▲ 2.6×34 topics
  9. Language273▲ 14×15 topics
  10. Regional Development264▲ 9.5×19 topics
  11. Digital Economy263▲ 16×18 topics
  12. Pedagogy235▲ 5.8×22 topics
  13. Ethnicity226▲ 7.5×21 topics
  14. Legal Regulation221▲ 12×8 topics
  15. Identity213▲ 3.6×62 topics
  16. Nationalism183▲ 5.0×30 topics
  17. Media181▲ 15×14 topics
  18. Linguistics174▲ 14×8 topics
  19. Migration173▲ 6.2×26 topics
  20. International Relations170▲ 8.7×23 topics
  21. Economic Security162▲ 9.4×7 topics
  22. Digital Education157▲ 13×6 topics
  23. Geopolitics157▲ 13×10 topics
  24. Educational Technologies156▲ 21×2 topics
  25. Language Teaching150▲ 7.0×8 topics
  26. Politics149▲ 7.0×21 topics
  27. Discourse Analysis147▲ 7.5×8 topics
  28. Youth140▲ 12×6 topics
  29. Phraseology139▲ 24×3 topics
  30. Teaching Methods138▲ 11×10 topics
  31. Tourism Development136▲ 12×2 topics
  32. Coronavirus135▲ 8.4×4 topics
  33. Arctic132▲ 15×4 topics
  34. Critical Thinking132▲ 14×4 topics
  35. Formative Assessment132▲ 19×2 topics
  36. Artistic Education131▲ 25×1 topic
  37. Student Competencies131▲ 25×1 topic
  38. Cultural Communication130▲ 47×1 topic
  39. Persuasion Strategies130▲ 47×1 topic
  40. Global Economy129▲ 12×6 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?

Tajikistan has out-published Burundi every year since 1996, when it overtook it.

still counting1k2kTajikistan1,828 in 2025Burundi394 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 counting0.020%0.040%Tajikistan0.031% in 2025Burundi0.0067% 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%Burundi7.6% in 2025Tajikistan7.5% 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.

Burundi 05 level0 Tajikistan
  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, Burundi or Tajikistan?

Tajikistan publishes 5.0× as much research as Burundi in 2022-now (7.1k against 1.4k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Burundi or Tajikistan?

8.9% of Burundi's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 7.3% for Tajikistan.

Is Burundi or Tajikistan growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +48% against 2018-21 for Tajikistan, and +16% for Burundi.

Which has more open access research, Burundi or Tajikistan?

54% of Burundi's research is free to read, against 44% of Tajikistan's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Burundi or Tajikistan?

Burundi holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Tajikistan 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%.

Burundi

  1. 1Université du Burundi8.4% top 10% · 302 works
  2. 2École Normale Supérieure9.0% top 10% · 857 works
  3. 3Republic of Burundi6.2% top 10% · 72 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.

Burundi

  1. 1 Ildephonse Sindayigaya #134,682 worldwide 331 citations · 35 works
  2. 2 Arnaud Iradukunda #717,202 worldwide 8.5k citations · 29 works
  3. 3 Jacques Nkengurutse #1,125,088 worldwide 177 citations · 33 works
  4. 4 Juma Shabani #1,326,444 worldwide 369 citations · 53 works
  5. 5 Paterne Gahungu #1,535,436 worldwide 86 citations · 29 works

Tajikistan

  1. 1 Farukh S. Sharopov #487,438 worldwide 8.9k citations · 136 works
  2. 2 V. Minaev #491,403 worldwide 1.7k citations · 27 works
  3. 3 Ilhomjon Oimahmadov #548,681 worldwide 1.7k citations · 63 works
  4. 4 Mustafo Gadoev #561,339 worldwide 1.8k citations · 78 works
  5. 5 Anatoly Ischuk #798,321 worldwide 1.2k citations · 49 works