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Cameroon vs Chad

On research quality in 2022-now, Cameroon ranks #133 in the world and Chad #168, of 189 countries. Cameroon stands higher in 17 of the 17 fields both publish in, Chad in 0.

Research profiles alike: 0.89very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured

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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.

Chad

World rank, 2022-now
#168
#171 all time
Works, 2022-now
545
fractional
Top-10% rate
4.2%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
79%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Forestry, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Geochemistry and Petrology.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Cameroon leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, output, top-10% rate and citations per work. Chad leads on 4 of 9 measures: excellence for its fields, open access, international co-authorship and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Cameroon 41 level4 Chad
  1. #133Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#168
  2. 0.64×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.75×
  3. 14kOutputfractional works, 2022-now545
  4. 6.3%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited4.2%
  5. 12.2Citations per workall time, per fractional work4.6
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 65%Open accessof its works free to read, all time79%
  8. 34%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time47%
  9. +29%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+104%

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?

Cameroon stands higher in 17 of 17 fields, Chad in 0. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Cameroon 170 Chad
  1. #101Agricultural and Biological Sciences-
  2. #102Arts and Humanities-
  3. #77Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-
  4. #104Business, Management and Accounting-
  5. #120Computer Science-
  6. #74Earth and Planetary Sciences-
  7. #83Economics, Econometrics and Finance-
  8. #115Engineering-
  9. #107Environmental Science-
  10. #99Health Professions-
  11. #63Immunology and Microbiology-
  12. #85Materials Science-
  13. #79Mathematics-
  14. #107Medicine-
  15. #73Physics and Astronomy-
  16. #102Psychology-
  17. #138Social Sciences-

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 Cameroon rankChad rank Cameroon top 10%Chad top 10% Cameroon worksChad works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #101 - 5.8% - 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 #115 - 7.1% - 1.3k -
Environmental Science #107 - 6.2% - 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 #107 - 4.8% - 2.5k -
Physics and Astronomy #73 - 5.8% - 408 -
Psychology #102 - 4.9% - 237 -
Social Sciences #138 - 7.7% - 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.

Cameroon

▲ 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. Epidemiology981▲ 1.49×138 topics
  2. Climate Change918▲ 2.0×105 topics
  3. Sustainability787▲ 1.94×96 topics
  4. Smallholder Farmers612▲ 17×6 topics
  5. Environmental Impact485▲ 1.72×59 topics
  6. Renewable Energy466▲ 1.94×49 topics
  7. Globalization465▲ 1.43×120 topics
  8. Adaptation455▲ 9.2×15 topics
  9. Diversity382▲ 13×10 topics
  10. Antioxidant375▲ 3.3×50 topics
  11. Economic Growth374▲ 2.8×30 topics
  12. Agroecology373▲ 16×5 topics
  13. Agricultural Development364▲ 14×6 topics
  14. Livestock Farming363▲ 37×3 topics
  15. Governance362▲ 6.7×16 topics
  16. Multifunctionality360▲ 47×2 topics
  17. Economic Development360▲ 2.7×38 topics
  18. Work Organization359▲ 56×1 topic
  19. Biodiversity Conservation347▲ 5.6×16 topics
  20. Medicinal Plants332▲ 5.2×19 topics
  21. Sustainable Agriculture284▲ 5.5×15 topics
  22. Genetic Diversity271▲ 3.8×21 topics
  23. Global Burden267▲ 3.0×12 topics
  24. Agroforestry257▲ 23×4 topics
  25. Inequality252▲ 6.7×15 topics
  26. Institutional Quality250▲ 14×3 topics
  27. Nutritional Value239▲ 13×5 topics
  28. ICT238▲ 11×5 topics
  29. Climate Resilience227▲ 23×3 topics
  30. Anti-inflammatory222▲ 4.7×29 topics
  31. Knowledge Economy218▲ 12×9 topics
  32. Poverty Reduction209▲ 9.7×5 topics
  33. Inclusive Development207▲ 29×2 topics
  34. Mobile Phones206▲ 27×1 topic
  35. financial access206▲ 31×1 topic
  36. Vaccine Development201▲ 4.7×11 topics
  37. Flavonoids193▲ 4.6×12 topics
  38. Rural Livelihoods191▲ 21×3 topics
  39. Indigenous Fruits190▲ 50×1 topic
  40. Tree Domestication190▲ 50×1 topic

Chad

▲ 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. Epidemiology62▲ 2.3×83 topics
  2. Climate Change50▲ 2.8×47 topics
  3. Sustainability43▲ 2.6×36 topics
  4. Smallholder Farmers39▲ 28×6 topics
  5. Adaptation31▲ 16×5 topics
  6. Diversity26▲ 22×4 topics
  7. Livestock Farming26▲ 65×2 topics
  8. Agroecology26▲ 27×2 topics
  9. Agricultural Development25▲ 25×2 topics
  10. Multifunctionality25▲ 81×1 topic
  11. Work Organization25▲ 97×1 topic
  12. Renewable Energy20▲ 2.0×22 topics
  13. Immune Response19▲ 5.0×13 topics
  14. Public Health19▲ 1.92×34 topics
  15. Treatment19▲ 2.3×27 topics
  16. Genetic Diversity19▲ 6.4×15 topics
  17. Sustainable Agriculture18▲ 8.5×9 topics
  18. Remote Sensing17▲ 2.1×15 topics
  19. Antioxidant16▲ 3.5×26 topics
  20. Nutritional Value15▲ 20×2 topics
  21. Climate Resilience15▲ 38×3 topics
  22. Diabetes15▲ 4.4×11 topics
  23. Global Burden15▲ 4.1×12 topics
  24. Biodiversity Conservation14▲ 5.4×8 topics
  25. Governance13▲ 5.9×7 topics
  26. Agroforestry12▲ 27×4 topics
  27. Health Benefits12▲ 5.3×10 topics
  28. Indigenous Fruits12▲ 77×1 topic
  29. Tree Domestication12▲ 77×1 topic
  30. Vaccine12▲ 4.3×9 topics
  31. Global Burden of Disease10▲ 6.3×2 topics
  32. Maternal Mortality10▲ 6.9×5 topics
  33. Maternal and Child Undernutrition10▲ 19×1 topic
  34. Water Sanitation Hygiene10▲ 19×1 topic
  35. GIS10▲ 19×3 topics
  36. Antiviral Therapy9▲ 14×3 topics
  37. Antiretroviral Therapy9▲ 7.9×6 topics
  38. Community Health Workers9▲ 14×2 topics
  39. Institutional Quality9▲ 12×2 topics
  40. Liver Disease8▲ 14×2 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?

Cameroon has out-published Chad every year since 1980.

still counting2k4kCameroon3,634 in 2025Chad151 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 counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Cameroon0.062% in 2025Chad0.0026% 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%Cameroon6.5% in 2025Chad3.9% 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.

Cameroon 05 level0 Chad
  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, Cameroon or Chad?

Cameroon publishes 25.9× as much research as Chad in 2022-now (14k against 545 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Cameroon or Chad?

6.3% of Cameroon's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.2% for Chad.

Is Cameroon or Chad growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +104% against 2018-21 for Chad, and +29% for Cameroon.

Which has more open access research, Cameroon or Chad?

79% of Chad's research is free to read, against 65% of Cameroon's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Cameroon or Chad?

Cameroon holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Chad 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%.

Cameroon

  1. 1University of Ngaoundéré4.4% top 10% · 870 works
  2. 2University of Douala5.5% top 10% · 1.6k works
  3. 3Université de Dschang8.3% top 10% · 2.1k works
  4. 4University of Bamenda6.4% top 10% · 1.2k works
  5. 5University of Buea6.2% top 10% · 1.5k works
  6. 6Université de Yaoundé I5.2% top 10% · 3k works

Chad

  1. 1University of N'Djamena3.4% top 10% · 365 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.

Cameroon

  1. 1 Simplice Anutechia Asongu #20,207 worldwide 26k citations · 1,463 works
  2. 2 Magellan Tchouakui #44,816 worldwide 2.4k citations · 117 works
  3. 3 Jean Jacques Noubiap #50,405 worldwide 171k citations · 401 works
  4. 4 Vanessa Simen Tchamyou #65,850 worldwide 4.4k citations · 111 works
  5. 5 Duncan W. Thomas #75,030 worldwide 12k citations · 102 works

Chad

  1. 1 Andossa Likius #853,994 worldwide 4.6k citations · 80 works
  2. 2 Jean‐Claude Mousseuknadji Kouladoum #1,017,261 worldwide 387 citations · 27 works
  3. 3 Hassane Taïsso Mackaye #1,057,251 worldwide 3.5k citations · 61 works
  4. 4 Yodé Miangotar #1,646,455 worldwide 1.9k citations · 18 works
  5. 5 Hassan Taïsso Mackaye #1,834,244 worldwide 1.1k citations · 22 works