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Cayman Islands vs Guinea-Bissau

On research quality in 2022-now, The Cayman Islands ranks #160 in the world and Guinea-Bissau #163, of 189 countries.

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Cayman Islands

World rank, 2022-now
#160
#159 all time
Works, 2022-now
274
fractional
Top-10% rate
17.8%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
30%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Health Informatics.

Guinea-Bissau

World rank, 2022-now
#163
#131 all time
Works, 2022-now
282
fractional
Top-10% rate
11.5%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
63%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Information Systems and Management, Health, Forestry.

Who leads, measure by measure?

The Cayman Islands leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, citation excellence for its fields, top-10% rate and growth. Guinea-Bissau leads on 3 of 9 measures: citations per work, open access and international co-authorship. The two are level on output and institutions in the world top 100.

Cayman Islands 42 level3 Guinea-Bissau
  1. #160Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#163
  2. 1.08×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.94×
  3. 274Outputfractional works, 2022-now282
  4. 17.8%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited11.5%
  5. 22.0Citations per workall time, per fractional work30.4
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 30%Open accessof its works free to read, all time63%
  8. 51%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time59%
  9. +46%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+10%

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, citation excellence and the top-10% rate are explained in the methodology.

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.

Cayman Islands

▲ 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. Deep Learning54▲ 5.0×52 topics
  2. Neural Networks38▲ 7.9×24 topics
  3. Machine Learning22▲ 2.1×42 topics
  4. Convolutional Neural Networks16▲ 7.0×11 topics
  5. Information Retrieval15▲ 21×3 topics
  6. Text Classification15▲ 29×3 topics
  7. Climate Change14▲ 1.66×32 topics
  8. Machine Translation13▲ 24×2 topics
  9. Topic Modeling13▲ 26×2 topics
  10. Semantic Similarity12▲ 32×1 topic
  11. Word Representation12▲ 32×1 topic
  12. Corpus Linguistics12▲ 18×2 topics
  13. Neural Machine Translation12▲ 41×1 topic
  14. Statistical Machine Translation12▲ 41×1 topic
  15. Unsupervised Learning10▲ 21×3 topics
  16. Globalization10▲ 1.62×15 topics
  17. Artificial Intelligence10▲ 2.1×14 topics
  18. Representation Learning9▲ 17×3 topics
  19. Convolutional Networks8▲ 20×3 topics
  20. Ocean Acidification7▲ 30×3 topics
  21. Big Data7▲ 2.4×10 topics
  22. Image Captioning7▲ 40×1 topic
  23. Visual Question Answering7▲ 24×1 topic
  24. Medical Imaging6▲ 3.8×7 topics
  25. Identity6▲ 2.8×6 topics
  26. Marine Ecosystems6▲ 35×2 topics
  27. Semi-Supervised Learning6▲ 15×3 topics
  28. Pose Estimation5▲ 14×2 topics
  29. Caribbean5▲ 85×2 topics
  30. Generative Adversarial Networks5▲ 18×2 topics
  31. Deep Neural Networks5▲ 12×3 topics
  32. Population Dynamics5▲ 5.9×7 topics
  33. Meta-Learning5▲ 17×2 topics
  34. Image Classification4▲ 7.5×2 topics
  35. Postcolonialism4▲ 9.9×2 topics
  36. Transfer Learning4▲ 7.1×3 topics
  37. Bleaching4▲ 41×1 topic
  38. Coral Reefs4▲ 41×1 topic
  39. Dancehall4▲ 178×1 topic
  40. Image Recognition4▲ 8.5×2 topics

Guinea-Bissau

▲ 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. Qualitative Research35▲ 13×11 topics
  2. Public Policy32▲ 20×12 topics
  3. Teacher Training31▲ 16×8 topics
  4. Social Inequality28▲ 32×7 topics
  5. Curriculum Development24▲ 11×4 topics
  6. Epidemiology24▲ 1.83×50 topics
  7. Higher Education21▲ 12×7 topics
  8. Educational Policies20▲ 56×2 topics
  9. Pedagogical Practices20▲ 68×2 topics
  10. Social Impact20▲ 15×7 topics
  11. Distance Learning20▲ 17×3 topics
  12. Inclusive Education20▲ 17×3 topics
  13. Critical Pedagogy19▲ 71×1 topic
  14. Educational Reform19▲ 48×1 topic
  15. Healthcare19▲ 5.1×12 topics
  16. Educational Technology18▲ 4.8×11 topics
  17. Innovation18▲ 5.5×11 topics
  18. Online Learning18▲ 6.8×6 topics
  19. Globalization16▲ 2.6×36 topics
  20. Sustainability16▲ 2.1×26 topics
  21. Quality Assurance16▲ 29×6 topics
  22. Science Communication15▲ 57×2 topics
  23. Evaluation15▲ 89×1 topic
  24. SINAES15▲ 180×1 topic
  25. Public Health14▲ 2.9×28 topics
  26. COVID-1912▲ 3.0×18 topics
  27. Pandemic11▲ 3.5×10 topics
  28. Educational Policy11▲ 13×3 topics
  29. E-Learning10▲ 3.4×4 topics
  30. Inclusion10▲ 22×2 topics
  31. Legislation10▲ 19×3 topics
  32. Training10▲ 15×5 topics
  33. Distance Education10▲ 16×1 topic
  34. Research10▲ 24×1 topic
  35. Agroecology8▲ 17×4 topics
  36. Data Analysis8▲ 9.1×2 topics
  37. Brazil8▲ 25×5 topics
  38. Organizational Management8▲ 39×1 topic
  39. Research Methods8▲ 15×1 topic
  40. Remote Education7▲ 69×1 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?

The Cayman Islands has out-published Guinea-Bissau every year since 2025, when it overtook it.

still counting50100Cayman Islands99 in 2025Guinea-Bissau60 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 counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Cayman Islands0.0017% in 2025Guinea-Bissau0.0010% 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 counting10%20%30%Cayman Islands11.5% in 2025Guinea-Bissau5.9% 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.

Cayman Islands 05 level0 Guinea-Bissau
  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, Cayman Islands or Guinea-Bissau?

Guinea-Bissau publishes 1.0× as much research as the Cayman Islands in 2022-now (282 against 274 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Cayman Islands or Guinea-Bissau?

17.8% of the Cayman Islands's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 11.5% for Guinea-Bissau.

Is Cayman Islands or Guinea-Bissau growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +46% against 2018-21 for the Cayman Islands, and +10% for Guinea-Bissau.

Which has more open access research, Cayman Islands or Guinea-Bissau?

63% of Guinea-Bissau's research is free to read, against 30% of the Cayman Islands's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Cayman Islands or Guinea-Bissau?

The Cayman Islands holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Guinea-Bissau 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%.

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.

Cayman Islands

  1. 1 Lidong Bing #48,864 worldwide 11k citations · 334 works
  2. 2 Zhongqiang Huang #820,022 worldwide 2.3k citations · 79 works
  3. 3 Boxing Chen #870,777 worldwide 2.1k citations · 193 works
  4. 4 Yew Ken Chia #1,085,768 worldwide 569 citations · 37 works
  5. 5 Mahani Aljunied #1,137,558 worldwide 108 citations · 17 works

Guinea-Bissau

  1. 1 Per Gustafson #77,276 worldwide 8.8k citations · 148 works
  2. 2 Peter Aaby #411,001 worldwide 37k citations · 788 works
  3. 3 Christine Stabell Benn #438,263 worldwide 20k citations · 455 works
  4. 4 Sofie Reumert Biering-Sørensen #470,096 worldwide 3.3k citations · 66 works
  5. 5 Morten Bjerregaard-Andersen #900,465 worldwide 2.7k citations · 86 works