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On research quality in 2022-now, Malta ranks #100 in the world and the Cayman Islands #160, of 189 countries. The Cayman Islands stands higher in 0 of the 6 fields both publish in, Malta in 6.

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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.

Malta

World rank, 2022-now
#100
#93 all time
Works, 2022-now
4k
fractional
Top-10% rate
8.7%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
49%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Space and Planetary Science, Medical Terminology, Archeology.

Who leads, measure by measure?

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

Cayman Islands 51 level3 Malta
  1. #160Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#100
  2. 1.08×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.79×
  3. 274Outputfractional works, 2022-now4k
  4. 17.8%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited8.7%
  5. 22.0Citations per workall time, per fractional work12.7
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 30%Open accessof its works free to read, all time49%
  8. 51%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time30%
  9. +46%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+11%

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?

Cayman Islands stands higher in 0 of 6 fields, Malta in 6. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Cayman Islands 06 Malta
  1. -Arts and Humanities#58
  2. -Computer Science#85
  3. -Engineering#88
  4. -Medicine#103
  5. -Psychology#76
  6. -Social Sciences#116

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 Cayman Islands rankMalta rank Cayman Islands top 10%Malta top 10% Cayman Islands worksMalta works
Arts and Humanities - #58 - 12.8% - 234
Computer Science - #85 - 8.0% - 348
Engineering - #88 - 8.8% - 420
Medicine - #103 - 6.4% - 861
Psychology - #76 - 8.7% - 232
Social Sciences - #116 - 9.9% - 632

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

Malta

▲ 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. Epidemiology204◆ 1.15×128 topics
  2. Globalization151▲ 1.72×97 topics
  3. Sustainability144▲ 1.32×79 topics
  4. Machine Learning136◆ 0.91×83 topics
  5. Deep Learning123▼ 0.80×73 topics
  6. Climate Change117◆ 0.96×96 topics
  7. Mental Health102▲ 1.59×41 topics
  8. Quality of Life100▲ 1.55×56 topics
  9. Education87◆ 1.13×81 topics
  10. Public Health80▲ 1.24×59 topics
  11. Artificial Intelligence79▲ 1.24×46 topics
  12. Renewable Energy79▲ 1.22×43 topics
  13. COVID-1970▲ 1.21×28 topics
  14. Healthcare70▲ 1.37×31 topics
  15. Risk Factors69▲ 1.41×36 topics
  16. Treatment68▲ 1.25×49 topics
  17. Cardiovascular Disease64▲ 1.25×38 topics
  18. Resilience64▲ 2.9×17 topics
  19. Big Data58▲ 1.35×27 topics
  20. Depression58▲ 1.46×25 topics
  21. Identity51▲ 1.59×46 topics
  22. Governance48▲ 3.3×14 topics
  23. Cultural Heritage48▲ 2.0×24 topics
  24. Vulnerability47▲ 4.6×7 topics
  25. Student Engagement46▲ 2.6×13 topics
  26. Ethics45▲ 2.0×39 topics
  27. Social Interaction42▲ 2.4×10 topics
  28. Prevention40▲ 2.1×15 topics
  29. Technology Integration35▲ 2.5×10 topics
  30. Reflective Practice34▲ 4.0×7 topics
  31. Mediterranean34▲ 8.4×6 topics
  32. Decolonization32▲ 8.9×5 topics
  33. European Union32▲ 3.2×17 topics
  34. Academic Achievement30▲ 4.0×10 topics
  35. Pacific30▲ 35×2 topics
  36. Islands29▲ 58×1 topic
  37. Small States29▲ 58×1 topic
  38. Holocene27▲ 5.3×3 topics
  39. Maritime Archaeology23▲ 28×1 topic
  40. Sea-Level Change23▲ 28×1 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?

Malta has out-published the Cayman Islands every year since 1980.

still counting5001k1.5kMalta1,053 in 2025Cayman Islands99 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 counting0.010%0.020%Malta0.018% in 2025Cayman Islands0.0017% 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 2025Malta9.8% 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.

Cayman Islands 05 level0 Malta
  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 Malta?

Malta publishes 14.5× as much research as the Cayman Islands in 2022-now (4k against 274 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Cayman Islands or Malta?

17.8% of the Cayman Islands's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 8.7% for Malta.

Is Cayman Islands or Malta growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +46% against 2018-21 for the Cayman Islands, and +11% for Malta.

Which has more open access research, Cayman Islands or Malta?

49% of Malta's research is free to read, against 30% of the Cayman Islands's.

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

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

Malta

  1. 1University of Malta9.1% top 10% · 3.1k works
  2. 2Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology6.7% top 10% · 277 works
  3. 3Primary HealthCare7.1% top 10% · 228 works
  4. 4Middlesex University8.5% top 10% · 131 works
  5. 5Heritage Malta7.7% top 10% · 72 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.

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

Malta

  1. 1 Mark Anthony Camilleri #68,033 worldwide 8.5k citations · 317 works
  2. 2 Miriam Gatt #75,716 worldwide 7k citations · 183 works
  3. 3 Mario V. Balzan #90,041 worldwide 4.2k citations · 91 works
  4. 4 Mark Mifsud #94,117 worldwide 3.4k citations · 56 works
  5. 5 Josette Camilleri #99,365 worldwide 13k citations · 232 works