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Central African Republic vs Guam

On research quality in 2022-now, The Central African Republic ranks #181 in the world and Guam #182, of 189 countries.

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Central African Republic

World rank, 2022-now
#181
#194 all time
Works, 2022-now
263
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.0%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
70%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Virology, Infectious Diseases, Endocrinology.

Guam

World rank, 2022-now
#182
#169 all time
Works, 2022-now
316
fractional
Top-10% rate
8.7%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
41%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Leadership and Management, Horticulture, Library and Information Sciences.

Who leads, measure by measure?

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

Central African Republic 41 level4 Guam
  1. #181Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#182
  2. 0.87×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.83×
  3. 263Outputfractional works, 2022-now316
  4. 5.0%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited8.7%
  5. 8.7Citations per workall time, per fractional work20.1
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 70%Open accessof its works free to read, all time41%
  8. 36%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time41%
  9. +75%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change-5%

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.

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.

Central African Republic

▲ 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. Epidemiology51▲ 4.3×71 topics
  2. Vaccine18▲ 15×10 topics
  3. Immune Response17▲ 10×12 topics
  4. Pathogenesis16▲ 10×15 topics
  5. Diagnosis14▲ 5.2×20 topics
  6. Treatment12▲ 3.3×17 topics
  7. Public Health12▲ 2.6×31 topics
  8. Climate Change10▲ 1.27×35 topics
  9. Globalization9▲ 1.52×17 topics
  10. Genetic Diversity9▲ 6.6×10 topics
  11. Risk Factors8▲ 2.4×16 topics
  12. Antiretroviral Therapy8▲ 15×6 topics
  13. Drug Resistance8▲ 8.7×6 topics
  14. Global Burden7▲ 4.2×10 topics
  15. Antibiotic Resistance6▲ 5.3×9 topics
  16. Vaccine Development6▲ 8.1×7 topics
  17. Maternal Mortality6▲ 8.5×4 topics
  18. Viral Transmission6▲ 14×3 topics
  19. Immunity5▲ 4.4×3 topics
  20. SARS-CoV-25▲ 5.7×5 topics
  21. Infectious Diseases5▲ 4.8×7 topics
  22. Zoonotic Transmission5▲ 22×4 topics
  23. Respiratory Infections5▲ 14×3 topics
  24. Risk Perception5▲ 5.7×5 topics
  25. Virulence Factors5▲ 11×5 topics
  26. Transmission4▲ 27×2 topics
  27. HIV4▲ 18×4 topics
  28. Antimicrobial Resistance4▲ 7.0×5 topics
  29. Community Health Workers4▲ 16×2 topics
  30. Mortality Rates4▲ 15×2 topics
  31. Vaccination4▲ 18×2 topics
  32. ACE2 Receptor4▲ 6.1×2 topics
  33. Health Inequalities4▲ 11×2 topics
  34. Toxins4▲ 13×5 topics
  35. Child Mortality4▲ 19×1 topic
  36. HIV Transmission4▲ 17×2 topics
  37. Health Systems4▲ 19×1 topic
  38. Viral Load4▲ 17×2 topics
  39. Preexposure Prophylaxis4▲ 25×1 topic
  40. Stigma and Discrimination4▲ 25×1 topic

Guam

▲ 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. Climate Change38▲ 3.9×41 topics
  2. Sustainability20▲ 2.3×27 topics
  3. Ocean Acidification19▲ 72×3 topics
  4. Marine Ecosystems17▲ 86×2 topics
  5. Globalization17▲ 2.4×25 topics
  6. Epidemiology17▲ 1.17×36 topics
  7. Bleaching13▲ 115×1 topic
  8. Coral Reefs13▲ 115×1 topic
  9. Public Health13▲ 2.6×23 topics
  10. Resilience13▲ 7.2×10 topics
  11. Economic Development12▲ 4.2×12 topics
  12. Pacific12▲ 176×2 topics
  13. Risk Factors12▲ 3.0×18 topics
  14. Vulnerability12▲ 14×5 topics
  15. Biodiversity12▲ 4.2×19 topics
  16. Conservation12▲ 7.5×13 topics
  17. Governance10▲ 9.0×5 topics
  18. Population Dynamics10▲ 11×10 topics
  19. Health Promotion10▲ 8.4×6 topics
  20. Decolonization9▲ 32×3 topics
  21. Islands9▲ 217×1 topic
  22. Small States9▲ 217×1 topic
  23. Genetic Diversity8▲ 5.0×11 topics
  24. Benthic Communities8▲ 35×2 topics
  25. Marine Biodiversity8▲ 35×2 topics
  26. Leadership8▲ 4.4×16 topics
  27. Fisheries Sustainability7▲ 22×2 topics
  28. Phylogenetic Analysis7▲ 6.1×9 topics
  29. Coastal Protection7▲ 28×2 topics
  30. Climate Change Impacts6▲ 15×4 topics
  31. Community Health6▲ 11×3 topics
  32. Ecosystem Resilience6▲ 12×4 topics
  33. Biogeography6▲ 6.4×9 topics
  34. Trophic Cascades6▲ 20×2 topics
  35. Ecosystem Management6▲ 30×1 topic
  36. Global Burden of Disease6▲ 7.0×3 topics
  37. Marine Fisheries6▲ 43×1 topic
  38. Cancer Incidence6▲ 12×2 topics
  39. Kelp Forests6▲ 51×1 topic
  40. Seagrasses6▲ 51×1 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?

Guam has out-published the Central African Republic every year since 2024, when it overtook it.

still counting50100150Guam91 in 2025Central African Republic56 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%Guam0.0015% in 2025Central African Republic0.00096% 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%Guam10.1% in 2025Central African Republic4.0% 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.

Central African Republic 05 level0 Guam
  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, Central African Republic or Guam?

Guam publishes 1.2× as much research as the Central African Republic in 2022-now (316 against 263 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Central African Republic or Guam?

8.7% of Guam's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.0% for the Central African Republic.

Is Central African Republic or Guam growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +75% against 2018-21 for the Central African Republic, and -5% for Guam.

Which has more open access research, Central African Republic or Guam?

70% of the Central African Republic's research is free to read, against 41% of Guam's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Central African Republic or Guam?

The Central African Republic holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Guam 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%.

Guam

  1. 1University of Guam7.9% top 10% · 218 works
  2. 2Department of Administration9.8% top 10% · 87 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.

Central African Republic

  1. 1 Angelique F. Todd #390,506 worldwide 2.9k citations · 66 works
  2. 2 Emmanuel Rivalyn Nakouné #418,176 worldwide 4.3k citations · 126 works
  3. 3 Fidèle Baya #708,365 worldwide 2k citations · 37 works
  4. 4 Marie Roseline Darnycka Bélizaire #783,905 worldwide 527 citations · 25 works
  5. 5 Clotaire Donatien Rafaï #936,367 worldwide 4.9k citations · 41 works

Guam

  1. 1 Kevin K.W. Ho #46,783 worldwide 4.1k citations · 273 works
  2. 2 Mike T. Carson #298,258 worldwide 2.4k citations · 156 works
  3. 3 Rob Rowan #390,380 worldwide 4.9k citations · 18 works
  4. 4 David J. Combosch #837,073 worldwide 1.6k citations · 42 works
  5. 5 Laurie J. Raymundo #985,219 worldwide 3k citations · 62 works