Cameroon vs Niger
On research quality in 2022-now, Cameroon ranks #133 in the world and Niger #147, of 189 countries. Cameroon stands higher in 16 of the 17 fields both publish in, Niger in 1.
Research profiles alike: 0.84very 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.
Niger
- World rank, 2022-now
- #147
- #130 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 1.5k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 4.0%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 47%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Forestry, Medical Terminology, Library and Information Sciences.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Cameroon leads on 6 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, citations per work and open access. Niger leads on 1 of 9 measures: international co-authorship. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100 and growth.
- #133Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#147
- 0.64×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.60×
- 14kOutputfractional works, 2022-now1.5k
- 6.3%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited4.0%
- 12.2Citations per workall time, per fractional work10.5
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 65%Open accessof its works free to read, all time47%
- 34%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time36%
- +29%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+29%
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 16 of 17 fields, Niger in 1. Cameroon leads most in Medicine (#107 against #120); Niger leads most in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#98 against #101). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- #101Agricultural and Biological Sciences#98
- #102Arts and Humanities-
- #77Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-
- #104Business, Management and Accounting-
- #120Computer Science-
- #74Earth and Planetary Sciences-
- #83Economics, Econometrics and Finance-
- #115Engineering-
- #107Environmental Science-
- #99Health Professions-
- #63Immunology and Microbiology-
- #85Materials Science-
- #79Mathematics-
- #107Medicine#120
- #73Physics and Astronomy-
- #102Psychology-
- #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 rank | Niger rank | Cameroon top 10% | Niger top 10% | Cameroon works | Niger works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | #101 | #98 | 5.8% | 4.3% | 2k | 345 |
| 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 | #120 | 4.8% | 2.9% | 2.5k | 373 |
| 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
- Tree Domestication
- Rural Livelihoods
- Vaccine Development
- Mobile Phones
- Poverty Reduction
- Anti-inflammatory
- ICT
- Institutional Quality
- Agroforestry
- Genetic Diversity
- Medicinal Plants
- Work Organization
- Multifunctionality
- Livestock Farming
- Agroecology
- Antioxidant
- Adaptation
- Renewable Energy
- Smallholder Farmers
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Environmental Impact
- Globalization
- Diversity
- Economic Growth
- Agricultural Development
- Governance
- Economic Development
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Global Burden
- Inequality
- Nutritional Value
- Climate Resilience
- Knowledge Economy
- Inclusive Development
- financial access
- Flavonoids
- Indigenous Fruits
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology981▲ 1.49×138 topics
- Climate Change918▲ 2.0×105 topics
- Sustainability787▲ 1.94×96 topics
- Smallholder Farmers612▲ 17×6 topics
- Environmental Impact485▲ 1.72×59 topics
- Renewable Energy466▲ 1.94×49 topics
- Globalization465▲ 1.43×120 topics
- Adaptation455▲ 9.2×15 topics
- Diversity382▲ 13×10 topics
- Antioxidant375▲ 3.3×50 topics
- Economic Growth374▲ 2.8×30 topics
- Agroecology373▲ 16×5 topics
- Agricultural Development364▲ 14×6 topics
- Livestock Farming363▲ 37×3 topics
- Governance362▲ 6.7×16 topics
- Multifunctionality360▲ 47×2 topics
- Economic Development360▲ 2.7×38 topics
- Work Organization359▲ 56×1 topic
- Biodiversity Conservation347▲ 5.6×16 topics
- Medicinal Plants332▲ 5.2×19 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture284▲ 5.5×15 topics
- Genetic Diversity271▲ 3.8×21 topics
- Global Burden267▲ 3.0×12 topics
- Agroforestry257▲ 23×4 topics
- Inequality252▲ 6.7×15 topics
- Institutional Quality250▲ 14×3 topics
- Nutritional Value239▲ 13×5 topics
- ICT238▲ 11×5 topics
- Climate Resilience227▲ 23×3 topics
- Anti-inflammatory222▲ 4.7×29 topics
- Knowledge Economy218▲ 12×9 topics
- Poverty Reduction209▲ 9.7×5 topics
- Inclusive Development207▲ 29×2 topics
- Mobile Phones206▲ 27×1 topic
- financial access206▲ 31×1 topic
- Vaccine Development201▲ 4.7×11 topics
- Flavonoids193▲ 4.6×12 topics
- Rural Livelihoods191▲ 21×3 topics
- Indigenous Fruits190▲ 50×1 topic
- Tree Domestication190▲ 50×1 topic
Niger
- Phytochemicals
- Health Inequalities
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition
- Agricultural Sustainability
- Maternal Mortality
- Breeding
- Drought Tolerance
- Nutritional Quality
- Remote Sensing
- Tree Domestication
- Rural Livelihoods
- Public Health
- Nutritional Value
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Multifunctionality
- Agroecology
- Diversity
- Smallholder Farmers
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Sustainability
- Adaptation
- Livestock Farming
- Agricultural Development
- Work Organization
- Climate Resilience
- Genetic Diversity
- Agroforestry
- Globalization
- Indigenous Fruits
- Environmental Impact
- Vaccine
- Food Security
- Pathogenesis
- Vaccine Development
- Global Burden of Disease
- Marker Development
- Water Sanitation Hygiene
- Community Health Workers
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Climate Change186▲ 3.8×72 topics
- Epidemiology162▲ 2.3×109 topics
- Sustainability152▲ 3.5×52 topics
- Smallholder Farmers150▲ 40×6 topics
- Adaptation112▲ 21×7 topics
- Diversity92▲ 29×7 topics
- Livestock Farming91▲ 86×3 topics
- Agroecology91▲ 36×2 topics
- Agricultural Development89▲ 33×2 topics
- Multifunctionality89▲ 106×1 topic
- Work Organization89▲ 129×1 topic
- Sustainable Agriculture72▲ 13×9 topics
- Climate Resilience69▲ 64×3 topics
- Biodiversity Conservation66▲ 9.8×12 topics
- Genetic Diversity58▲ 7.5×19 topics
- Nutritional Value57▲ 28×3 topics
- Agroforestry55▲ 46×4 topics
- Public Health52▲ 2.0×48 topics
- Globalization52▲ 1.48×56 topics
- Rural Livelihoods51▲ 53×2 topics
- Indigenous Fruits50▲ 123×1 topic
- Tree Domestication50▲ 123×1 topic
- Environmental Impact50▲ 1.63×46 topics
- Remote Sensing42▲ 1.94×25 topics
- Vaccine40▲ 5.6×11 topics
- Nutritional Quality36▲ 28×4 topics
- Food Security34▲ 3.5×15 topics
- Drought Tolerance34▲ 14×8 topics
- Pathogenesis34▲ 3.7×19 topics
- Breeding28▲ 21×5 topics
- Vaccine Development28▲ 6.0×10 topics
- Maternal Mortality27▲ 6.8×5 topics
- Global Burden of Disease25▲ 5.5×4 topics
- Agricultural Sustainability22▲ 11×4 topics
- Marker Development22▲ 27×3 topics
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition22▲ 15×1 topic
- Water Sanitation Hygiene22▲ 15×1 topic
- Health Inequalities22▲ 9.9×3 topics
- Community Health Workers21▲ 13×2 topics
- Phytochemicals20▲ 10×5 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 Niger every year since 1980.
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.
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%).
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.
- 0In the world top 500
- 0In the top 1000
- 0In the top 5000
- 0In the top 1,0000
- #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 Niger?
Cameroon publishes 9.3× as much research as Niger in 2022-now (14k against 1.5k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Cameroon or Niger?
6.3% of Cameroon's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.0% for Niger.
Is Cameroon or Niger growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +29% against 2018-21 for Niger, and +29% for Cameroon.
Which has more open access research, Cameroon or Niger?
65% of Cameroon's research is free to read, against 47% of Niger's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Cameroon or Niger?
Cameroon holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Niger 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
- 1University of Ngaoundéré4.4% top 10% · 870 works
- 2University of Douala5.5% top 10% · 1.6k works
- 3Université de Dschang8.3% top 10% · 2.1k works
- 4University of Bamenda6.4% top 10% · 1.2k works
- 5University of Buea6.2% top 10% · 1.5k works
- 6Université de Yaoundé I5.2% top 10% · 3k works
Niger
- 1Université Abdou Moumouni3.2% top 10% · 539 works
- 2Université de Maradi3.2% top 10% · 135 works
- 3National Hospital Niamey2.5% top 10% · 161 works
- 4Ministère de la Santé Publique5.7% top 10% · 91 works
- 5Université André Salifou2.7% top 10% · 95 works
- 6Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger6.5% top 10% · 110 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 Simplice Anutechia Asongu #20,207 worldwide 26k citations · 1,463 works
- 2 Magellan Tchouakui #44,816 worldwide 2.4k citations · 117 works
- 3 Jean Jacques Noubiap #50,405 worldwide 171k citations · 401 works
- 4 Vanessa Simen Tchamyou #65,850 worldwide 4.4k citations · 111 works
- 5 Duncan W. Thomas #75,030 worldwide 12k citations · 102 works
Niger
- 1 Amadou Garba #483,222 worldwide 5.2k citations · 160 works
- 2 Abdou Ali #737,227 worldwide 2.9k citations · 72 works
- 3 Amina Amadou Hamidou #897,228 worldwide 804 citations · 33 works
- 4 Mahamadou Bassirou Souleymane #1,126,005 worldwide 1.2k citations · 28 works
- 5 Ousmane Guindo #1,234,502 worldwide 1.2k citations · 79 works