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Cayman Islands vs Timor-Leste

On research quality in 2022-now, The Cayman Islands ranks #160 in the world and Timor-Leste #162, of 189 countries. The Cayman Islands stands higher in 0 of the 1 fields both publish in, Timor-Leste in 1.

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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.

Timor-Leste

World rank, 2022-now
#162
#182 all time
Works, 2022-now
673
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.1%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
83%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Linguistics and Language, Law, Human Factors and Ergonomics.

Who leads, measure by measure?

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

Cayman Islands 51 level3 Timor-Leste
  1. #160Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#162
  2. 1.08×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.66×
  3. 274Outputfractional works, 2022-now673
  4. 17.8%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.1%
  5. 22.0Citations per workall time, per fractional work2.7
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 30%Open accessof its works free to read, all time83%
  8. 51%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time46%
  9. +46%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+194%

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.

Who leads in each field?

Cayman Islands stands higher in 0 of 1 fields, Timor-Leste in 1. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Cayman Islands 01 Timor-Leste
  1. -Social Sciences#111

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 rankTimor-Leste rank Cayman Islands top 10%Timor-Leste top 10% Cayman Islands worksTimor-Leste works
Social Sciences - #111 - 6.6% - 258

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

Timor-Leste

▲ 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. Globalization46▲ 3.0×53 topics
  2. Community Empowerment46▲ 8.2×12 topics
  3. Sustainability38▲ 2.0×54 topics
  4. Health Education36▲ 11×10 topics
  5. Sustainable Development32▲ 2.7×34 topics
  6. Human Rights31▲ 4.0×26 topics
  7. Neoliberalism30▲ 11×11 topics
  8. Education29▲ 2.2×49 topics
  9. Corporate Governance29▲ 5.1×14 topics
  10. Social Justice28▲ 6.0×22 topics
  11. Non-Communicable Diseases25▲ 12×3 topics
  12. Maternal Health24▲ 12×4 topics
  13. Environmental Law24▲ 15×6 topics
  14. COVID-1924▲ 2.4×18 topics
  15. Educational Technology24▲ 2.6×24 topics
  16. Social Media24▲ 2.2×19 topics
  17. Breastfeeding24▲ 13×2 topics
  18. Public Health Policy23▲ 12×2 topics
  19. Peacebuilding23▲ 44×4 topics
  20. Child Nutrition23▲ 16×1 topic
  21. Stunting23▲ 16×1 topic
  22. Indonesia22▲ 6.6×5 topics
  23. Economic Development22▲ 3.6×19 topics
  24. Criminal Justice22▲ 13×6 topics
  25. Local Turn21▲ 180×1 topic
  26. Resilience Governance21▲ 180×1 topic
  27. Community Participation21▲ 7.8×8 topics
  28. Colonialism19▲ 5.1×14 topics
  29. Economic Impact18▲ 4.3×7 topics
  30. Child Development18▲ 5.5×8 topics
  31. International Law17▲ 6.9×9 topics
  32. Islamic Banking16▲ 5.6×3 topics
  33. Healthcare Access15▲ 7.0×7 topics
  34. Governance14▲ 5.7×8 topics
  35. Patient Satisfaction14▲ 5.8×6 topics
  36. Restorative Justice14▲ 13×3 topics
  37. Patient Experience13▲ 16×3 topics
  38. Corruption13▲ 10×5 topics
  39. Organizational Behavior13▲ 11×2 topics
  40. Legal Pluralism12▲ 20×3 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?

Timor-Leste has out-published the Cayman Islands every year since 2017, when it overtook it.

still counting100200300Timor-Leste260 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 counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Timor-Leste0.0044% 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 2025Timor-Leste4.8% in 202520102020

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 Timor-Leste
  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 Timor-Leste?

Timor-Leste publishes 2.5× as much research as the Cayman Islands in 2022-now (673 against 274 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Cayman Islands or Timor-Leste?

17.8% of the Cayman Islands's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.1% for Timor-Leste.

Is Cayman Islands or Timor-Leste growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +194% against 2018-21 for Timor-Leste, and +46% for the Cayman Islands.

Which has more open access research, Cayman Islands or Timor-Leste?

83% of Timor-Leste's research is free to read, against 30% of the Cayman Islands's.

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

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

Timor-Leste

  1. 1Universidade da Paz6.1% top 10% · 342 works
  2. 2National University of East Timor4.0% top 10% · 330 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

Timor-Leste

  1. 1 João Soares Martins #225,608 worldwide 3.1k citations · 53 works
  2. 2 Seguito Monteiro #2,276,815 worldwide 36 citations · 24 works
  3. 3 Salvador Amaral #2,597,992 worldwide 499 citations · 46 works
  4. 4 Juvinal Ximenes Guterres #2,767,071 worldwide 24 citations · 14 works
  5. 5 Joanita Bendita da Costa Jong #2,958,778 worldwide 368 citations · 23 works