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Cambodia vs Fiji

On research quality in 2022-now, Cambodia ranks #95 in the world and Fiji #102, of 189 countries. Cambodia stands higher in 8 of the 8 fields both publish in, Fiji in 0.

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Cambodia

World rank, 2022-now
#95
#87 all time
Works, 2022-now
5.4k
fractional
Top-10% rate
6.8%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
67%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Leadership and Management, Health Informatics, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.

Fiji

World rank, 2022-now
#102
#116 all time
Works, 2022-now
1.6k
fractional
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
47%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Public Administration, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management, Demography.

Who leads, measure by measure?

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

Cambodia 51 level3 Fiji
  1. #95Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#102
  2. 0.62×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.89×
  3. 5.4kOutputfractional works, 2022-now1.6k
  4. 6.8%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited10.1%
  5. 10.0Citations per workall time, per fractional work14.6
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 67%Open accessof its works free to read, all time47%
  8. 62%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time42%
  9. +126%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+16%

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?

Cambodia stands higher in 8 of 8 fields, Fiji in 0. Cambodia leads most in Medicine (#73 against #105). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Cambodia 80 Fiji
  1. #86Agricultural and Biological Sciences-
  2. #89Business, Management and Accounting-
  3. #89Computer Science-
  4. #105Engineering-
  5. #94Environmental Science-
  6. #73Medicine#105
  7. #77Psychology-
  8. #79Social Sciences#95

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 Cambodia rankFiji rank Cambodia top 10%Fiji top 10% Cambodia worksFiji works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #86 - 6.2% - 312 -
Business, Management and Accounting #89 - 6.2% - 241 -
Computer Science #89 - 7.6% - 331 -
Engineering #105 - 4.2% - 395 -
Environmental Science #94 - 4.6% - 319 -
Medicine #73 #105 4.9% 5.4% 1.5k 238
Psychology #77 - 5.1% - 206 -
Social Sciences #79 #95 11.2% 12.2% 972 327

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.

Cambodia

▲ 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. Epidemiology453▲ 1.70×137 topics
  2. Human Rights262▲ 3.8×64 topics
  3. Sustainability244▲ 1.50×104 topics
  4. Climate Change235▲ 1.30×115 topics
  5. Globalization221▲ 1.69×117 topics
  6. Machine Learning218◆ 0.98×88 topics
  7. Political Transition208▲ 62×4 topics
  8. Education Reform205▲ 127×3 topics
  9. Memory202▲ 12×14 topics
  10. Civil Society199▲ 27×6 topics
  11. Genocide195▲ 56×3 topics
  12. Demography191▲ 63×2 topics
  13. Cambodia191▲ 426×1 topic
  14. Land Rights191▲ 184×1 topic
  15. Inflammation175▲ 1.23×83 topics
  16. Education140▲ 1.22×101 topics
  17. Sustainable Development134▲ 1.28×87 topics
  18. Educational Technology130▲ 1.66×45 topics
  19. Quality of Life130▲ 1.36×59 topics
  20. COVID-19125▲ 1.45×32 topics
  21. Treatment125▲ 1.55×52 topics
  22. Artificial Intelligence121▲ 1.28×53 topics
  23. Economic Development118▲ 2.2×41 topics
  24. Innovation105▲ 1.53×58 topics
  25. Pedagogy104▲ 3.1×21 topics
  26. Diagnosis103▲ 1.65×41 topics
  27. Language Teaching92▲ 5.2×6 topics
  28. Meta-Analysis84▲ 2.1×20 topics
  29. Global Burden84▲ 2.3×12 topics
  30. Higher Education81▲ 2.3×27 topics
  31. Entrepreneurship74▲ 2.8×20 topics
  32. Vaccine Development66▲ 3.8×11 topics
  33. Digital Education64▲ 6.5×6 topics
  34. Teaching Methods61▲ 5.7×8 topics
  35. Tourism Development61▲ 6.7×2 topics
  36. Formative Assessment57▲ 10×2 topics
  37. Critical Thinking56▲ 7.2×5 topics
  38. Educational Technologies56▲ 9.1×2 topics
  39. Artistic Education52▲ 12×1 topic
  40. Student Competencies52▲ 12×1 topic

Fiji

▲ 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. Sustainability123▲ 2.8×62 topics
  2. Climate Change120▲ 2.4×83 topics
  3. Vulnerability92▲ 22×7 topics
  4. Globalization90▲ 2.5×51 topics
  5. Epidemiology74◆ 1.02×109 topics
  6. Environmental Impact71▲ 2.3×44 topics
  7. Machine Learning69◆ 1.14×64 topics
  8. Resilience68▲ 7.5×14 topics
  9. Economic Development64▲ 4.4×22 topics
  10. Governance55▲ 9.2×11 topics
  11. Deep Learning55◆ 0.87×57 topics
  12. Decolonization51▲ 34×5 topics
  13. Renewable Energy49▲ 1.84×31 topics
  14. Public Health48▲ 1.81×47 topics
  15. Pacific47▲ 135×2 topics
  16. Islands46▲ 225×1 topic
  17. Small States46▲ 225×1 topic
  18. COVID-1936▲ 1.50×22 topics
  19. Economic Growth33▲ 2.2×20 topics
  20. Community Empowerment31▲ 2.4×11 topics
  21. Child Development31▲ 4.1×7 topics
  22. Adaptation30▲ 5.5×10 topics
  23. Non-Communicable Diseases28▲ 5.7×5 topics
  24. Food Security28▲ 2.8×18 topics
  25. Health Education28▲ 3.5×7 topics
  26. Agriculture26▲ 3.7×9 topics
  27. Migration25▲ 4.0×7 topics
  28. Sea-Level Rise25▲ 12×5 topics
  29. Global Warming25▲ 3.2×11 topics
  30. Genetic Diversity24▲ 3.1×19 topics
  31. COVID-19 Impact23▲ 7.4×6 topics
  32. Resettlement22▲ 14×3 topics
  33. Maternal Health21▲ 4.5×4 topics
  34. Environmental Refugees21▲ 55×1 topic
  35. Natural Disasters21▲ 55×1 topic
  36. Breastfeeding21▲ 5.0×2 topics
  37. Technology Integration21▲ 3.6×8 topics
  38. Path Planning18▲ 7.8×3 topics
  39. Child Nutrition17▲ 5.1×1 topic
  40. Stunting17▲ 5.1×1 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?

Cambodia has out-published Fiji every year since 1980.

still counting1k2kCambodia1,946 in 2025Fiji441 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%Cambodia0.033% in 2025Fiji0.0075% 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%Fiji10.2% in 2025Cambodia6.8% 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.

Cambodia 05 level0 Fiji
  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, Cambodia or Fiji?

Cambodia publishes 3.3× as much research as Fiji in 2022-now (5.4k against 1.6k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Cambodia or Fiji?

10.1% of Fiji's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.8% for Cambodia.

Is Cambodia or Fiji growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +126% against 2018-21 for Cambodia, and +16% for Fiji.

Which has more open access research, Cambodia or Fiji?

67% of Cambodia's research is free to read, against 47% of Fiji's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Cambodia or Fiji?

Cambodia holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Fiji 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%.

Cambodia

  1. 1International University5.3% top 10% · 1.1k works
  2. 2Institute of Technology of Cambodia5.5% top 10% · 537 works
  3. 3Royal University of Phnom Penh9.0% top 10% · 203 works
  4. 4University of Cambodia11.8% top 10% · 181 works
  5. 5Angkor Hospital for Children18.9% top 10% · 104 works
  6. 6Royal University of Agriculture, Cambodia2.6% top 10% · 215 works

Fiji

  1. 1University of the South Pacific12.2% top 10% · 623 works
  2. 2Fiji National University10.5% top 10% · 424 works
  3. 3Ministry Of Health5.0% top 10% · 313 works
  4. 4University of Fiji8.6% top 10% · 135 works
  5. 5Ministry of Agriculture11.0% top 10% · 111 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.

Cambodia

  1. 1 Seila Suon #65,593 worldwide 11k citations · 44 works
  2. 2 Duong Socheat #78,195 worldwide 18k citations · 123 works
  3. 3 Dysoley Lek #94,977 worldwide 4.2k citations · 120 works
  4. 4 Sokunthea Sreng #111,411 worldwide 9.7k citations · 39 works
  5. 5 Chea Nguon #118,509 worldwide 9.2k citations · 106 works

Fiji

  1. 1 Sangeeta Mangubhai #35,741 worldwide 6.3k citations · 189 works
  2. 2 Stacy D. Jupiter #71,945 worldwide 9.3k citations · 212 works
  3. 3 Shavneet Sharma #82,714 worldwide 2.3k citations · 79 works
  4. 4 Ramendra Prasad #86,233 worldwide 3.5k citations · 63 works
  5. 5 Abirami Ramu Ganesan #172,746 worldwide 3.1k citations · 59 works