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Cambodia vs Palestine

On research quality in 2022-now, Palestine ranks #86 in the world and Cambodia #95, of 189 countries. Cambodia stands higher in 4 of the 10 fields both publish in, Palestine in 6.

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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.

Palestine

World rank, 2022-now
#86
#109 all time
Works, 2022-now
6.9k
fractional
Top-10% rate
12.4%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
63%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Research and Theory, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Accounting.

Who leads, measure by measure?

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

Cambodia 31 level5 Palestine
  1. #95Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#86
  2. 0.62×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.93×
  3. 5.4kOutputfractional works, 2022-now6.9k
  4. 6.8%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited12.4%
  5. 10.0Citations per workall time, per fractional work11.4
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 67%Open accessof its works free to read, all time63%
  8. 62%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time35%
  9. +126%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+60%

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 4 of 10 fields, Palestine in 6. Palestine leads most in Business, Management and Accounting (#68 against #89); Cambodia leads most in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#86 against #105). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Cambodia 46 Palestine
  1. #86Agricultural and Biological Sciences#105
  2. -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#75
  3. #89Business, Management and Accounting#68
  4. #89Computer Science#72
  5. #105Engineering#80
  6. #94Environmental Science#102
  7. -Health Professions#62
  8. #73Medicine#89
  9. #77Psychology#65
  10. #79Social Sciences#86

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 rankPalestine rank Cambodia top 10%Palestine top 10% Cambodia worksPalestine works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #86 #105 6.2% 11.8% 312 224
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - #75 - 10.3% - 214
Business, Management and Accounting #89 #68 6.2% 16.6% 241 437
Computer Science #89 #72 7.6% 13.2% 331 646
Engineering #105 #80 4.2% 12.1% 395 603
Environmental Science #94 #102 4.6% 10.5% 319 237
Health Professions - #62 - 19.3% - 314
Medicine #73 #89 4.9% 9.1% 1.5k 1.6k
Psychology #77 #65 5.1% 14.8% 206 356
Social Sciences #79 #86 11.2% 13.1% 972 1.1k

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

Palestine

▲ 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. Epidemiology447▲ 1.38×133 topics
  2. Machine Learning411▲ 1.52×87 topics
  3. Mental Health286▲ 2.5×40 topics
  4. Deep Learning260◆ 0.93×81 topics
  5. Public Health227▲ 1.92×55 topics
  6. Globalization225▲ 1.41×83 topics
  7. Healthcare207▲ 2.2×28 topics
  8. Corporate Governance195▲ 3.3×22 topics
  9. Supply Chain Management188▲ 2.6×23 topics
  10. Human Rights173▲ 2.1×48 topics
  11. Depression166▲ 2.3×24 topics
  12. Risk Management146▲ 3.8×14 topics
  13. Mortality139▲ 3.0×13 topics
  14. Digital Transformation135▲ 3.1×22 topics
  15. Customer Satisfaction131▲ 5.1×8 topics
  16. Discrimination123▲ 7.2×6 topics
  17. Palestine122▲ 28×2 topics
  18. Nationalism120▲ 3.3×18 topics
  19. Technology Integration117▲ 4.6×11 topics
  20. Health117▲ 3.6×18 topics
  21. IoT116▲ 3.8×14 topics
  22. Israel113▲ 42×2 topics
  23. Organizational Performance111▲ 5.2×11 topics
  24. Ethnic Identity110▲ 12×3 topics
  25. Occupation110▲ 22×2 topics
  26. Smart Cities110▲ 5.1×8 topics
  27. Segregation109▲ 18×2 topics
  28. Intifada109▲ 50×1 topic
  29. Settler Colonialism109▲ 32×2 topics
  30. Finance108▲ 7.3×3 topics
  31. Trauma103▲ 6.1×7 topics
  32. Performance Analysis101▲ 6.0×5 topics
  33. Financial Stability101▲ 6.5×4 topics
  34. Conflict95▲ 7.2×10 topics
  35. Global Financial Crisis92▲ 8.7×3 topics
  36. Ethical Identity91▲ 9.7×1 topic
  37. Shariah Supervision91▲ 9.7×1 topic
  38. Social Media Marketing86▲ 22×1 topic
  39. Violence85▲ 7.1×6 topics
  40. Peacebuilding82▲ 15×6 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?

Palestine has out-published Cambodia every year since 2007, when it overtook it.

still counting1k2k3kPalestine2,166 in 2025Cambodia1,946 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%Palestine0.037% in 2025Cambodia0.033% 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%Palestine14.3% 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 Palestine
  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 Palestine?

Palestine publishes 1.3× as much research as Cambodia in 2022-now (6.9k against 5.4k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Cambodia or Palestine?

12.4% of Palestine's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.8% for Cambodia.

Is Cambodia or Palestine growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +126% against 2018-21 for Cambodia, and +60% for Palestine.

Which has more open access research, Cambodia or Palestine?

67% of Cambodia's research is free to read, against 63% of Palestine's.

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

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

Palestine

  1. 1An-Najah National University14.5% top 10% · 1.7k works
  2. 2Arab American University15.7% top 10% · 693 works
  3. 3Al-Quds University8.2% top 10% · 834 works
  4. 4Birzeit University11.7% top 10% · 504 works
  5. 5Islamic University of Gaza16.1% top 10% · 463 works
  6. 6University College of Applied Science11.1% top 10% · 166 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

Palestine

  1. 1 Bassam A. Tayeh #1,813 worldwide 17k citations · 233 works
  2. 2 Amira A Shaheen #16,599 worldwide 119k citations · 109 works
  3. 3 Majdi M. Mafarja #38,171 worldwide 18k citations · 104 works
  4. 4 Niveen ME Abu-Rmeileh #50,160 worldwide 43k citations · 40 works
  5. 5 Mohammad A.A. Zaid #62,516 worldwide 1.7k citations · 35 works