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Cambodia vs Myanmar

On research quality in 2022-now, Cambodia ranks #95 in the world and Myanmar #129, of 189 countries. Cambodia stands higher in 8 of the 9 fields both publish in, Myanmar in 1.

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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.

Myanmar

World rank, 2022-now
#129
#121 all time
Works, 2022-now
3.4k
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.6%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
45%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: General Dentistry, Orthodontics, Dentistry.

Who leads, measure by measure?

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

Cambodia 71 level1 Myanmar
  1. #95Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#129
  2. 0.62×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.55×
  3. 5.4kOutputfractional works, 2022-now3.4k
  4. 6.8%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.6%
  5. 10.0Citations per workall time, per fractional work10.3
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 67%Open accessof its works free to read, all time45%
  8. 62%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time41%
  9. +126%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+3%

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 9 fields, Myanmar in 1. Cambodia leads most in Social Sciences (#79 against #140). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Cambodia 81 Myanmar
  1. #86Agricultural and Biological Sciences-
  2. #89Business, Management and Accounting-
  3. #89Computer Science#109
  4. #105Engineering#116
  5. #94Environmental Science-
  6. -Health Professions#96
  7. #73Medicine#97
  8. #77Psychology-
  9. #79Social Sciences#140

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 rankMyanmar rank Cambodia top 10%Myanmar top 10% Cambodia worksMyanmar works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #86 - 6.2% - 312 -
Business, Management and Accounting #89 - 6.2% - 241 -
Computer Science #89 #109 7.6% 3.3% 331 359
Engineering #105 #116 4.2% 4.6% 395 314
Environmental Science #94 - 4.6% - 319 -
Health Professions - #96 - 5.2% - 204
Medicine #73 #97 4.9% 6.0% 1.5k 778
Psychology #77 - 5.1% - 206 -
Social Sciences #79 #140 11.2% 7.3% 972 414

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

Myanmar

▲ 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. Epidemiology296▲ 1.79×133 topics
  2. Deep Learning227▲ 1.58×80 topics
  3. Machine Learning181▲ 1.30×85 topics
  4. Quality of Life158▲ 2.6×58 topics
  5. Inflammation108▲ 1.22×82 topics
  6. COVID-19102▲ 1.89×31 topics
  7. Public Health90▲ 1.48×66 topics
  8. Risk Factors85▲ 1.86×36 topics
  9. Neural Networks85▲ 1.32×36 topics
  10. Artificial Intelligence81▲ 1.37×50 topics
  11. Healthcare78▲ 1.65×34 topics
  12. Global Burden71▲ 3.1×12 topics
  13. Convolutional Neural Networks68▲ 2.3×14 topics
  14. Ethnicity68▲ 4.4×13 topics
  15. Clinical Trials62▲ 2.2×19 topics
  16. Dental Caries62▲ 15×2 topics
  17. Prevention56▲ 3.2×15 topics
  18. Bone Regeneration44▲ 9.2×2 topics
  19. Diabetes Mellitus41▲ 4.7×8 topics
  20. Social Determinants40▲ 4.6×7 topics
  21. Oral Health37▲ 15×3 topics
  22. Dental Implants37▲ 18×1 topic
  23. Peri-implant Diseases37▲ 18×1 topic
  24. Conflict36▲ 5.4×9 topics
  25. Infection Control36▲ 10×3 topics
  26. Political Transition35▲ 17×4 topics
  27. Dental Materials34▲ 15×1 topic
  28. Restorative Dentistry34▲ 15×1 topic
  29. Fluoride33▲ 14×2 topics
  30. Dental Students32▲ 33×2 topics
  31. Leadership Development32▲ 21×4 topics
  32. Aerosols31▲ 11×2 topics
  33. Remineralization31▲ 18×1 topic
  34. Dental Practice31▲ 17×1 topic
  35. Inflammatory Pathways31▲ 11×2 topics
  36. Transmission Routes31▲ 17×1 topic
  37. Career Choice31▲ 26×2 topics
  38. Oral Microbiome30▲ 12×1 topic
  39. Periodontal Diseases30▲ 12×1 topic
  40. Myanmar30▲ 52×1 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 Myanmar every year since 2021, when it overtook it.

still counting1k2kCambodia1,946 in 2025Myanmar1,139 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 2025Myanmar0.019% 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%Cambodia6.8% in 2025Myanmar5.9% 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 Myanmar
  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 Myanmar?

Cambodia publishes 1.6× as much research as Myanmar in 2022-now (5.4k against 3.4k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Cambodia or Myanmar?

6.8% of Cambodia's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.6% for Myanmar.

Is Cambodia or Myanmar growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +126% against 2018-21 for Cambodia, and +3% for Myanmar.

Which has more open access research, Cambodia or Myanmar?

67% of Cambodia's research is free to read, against 45% of Myanmar's.

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

Cambodia holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Myanmar 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

Myanmar

  1. 1Department of Public Health10.4% top 10% · 277 works
  2. 2University Of Information Technology3.4% top 10% · 311 works
  3. 3University of Computer Studies Mandalay2.4% top 10% · 165 works
  4. 4University of Dental Medicine2.9% top 10% · 453 works
  5. 5University Of Medicine 1 Yangon8.6% top 10% · 162 works
  6. 6Ministry of Health5.1% top 10% · 206 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

Myanmar

  1. 1 A. Y. Rodriguez #51,897 worldwide 20k citations · 132 works
  2. 2 Frank M. Smithuis #154,783 worldwide 5.5k citations · 124 works
  3. 3 Ye Htut #331,129 worldwide 4.9k citations · 30 works
  4. 4 Khin Maung Win #486,527 worldwide 4.8k citations · 88 works
  5. 5 Thae Maung Maung #489,374 worldwide 2.2k citations · 57 works