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Chile vs Ireland

On research quality in 2022-now, Ireland ranks #30 in the world and Chile #33, of 189 countries. Chile stands higher in 7 of the 23 fields both publish in, Ireland in 16.

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Chile

World rank, 2022-now
#33
#32 all time
Works, 2022-now
67k
fractional
Top-10% rate
9.4%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
67%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: General Social Sciences, Life-span and Life-course Studies, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology.

Ireland

World rank, 2022-now
#30
#27 all time
Works, 2022-now
57k
fractional
Top-10% rate
12.5%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
42%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Geriatrics and Gerontology, Medical Terminology, Research and Theory.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Ireland leads on 5 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work and growth. Chile leads on 2 of 9 measures: output and open access. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100 and international co-authorship.

Chile 22 level5 Ireland
  1. #33Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#30
  2. 0.93×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected1.01×
  3. 67kOutputfractional works, 2022-now57k
  4. 9.4%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited12.5%
  5. 11.7Citations per workall time, per fractional work23.1
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 67%Open accessof its works free to read, all time42%
  8. 29%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time28%
  9. +2%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+4%

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?

Chile stands higher in 7 of 23 fields, Ireland in 16. Ireland leads most in Chemistry (#28 against #46); Chile leads most in Arts and Humanities (#25 against #34). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Chile 716 Ireland
  1. #34Agricultural and Biological Sciences#29
  2. #25Arts and Humanities#34
  3. #40Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#26
  4. #37Business, Management and Accounting#32
  5. #46Chemistry#28
  6. #37Computer Science#30
  7. #32Decision Sciences#27
  8. #29Dentistry#31
  9. #26Earth and Planetary Sciences#30
  10. #34Economics, Econometrics and Finance#32
  11. #33Energy#36
  12. #38Engineering#30
  13. #36Environmental Science#32
  14. #31Health Professions#26
  15. #38Immunology and Microbiology#23
  16. #43Materials Science#28
  17. #33Mathematics#36
  18. #31Medicine#26
  19. #30Neuroscience#25
  20. #36Nursing#28
  21. #29Physics and Astronomy#35
  22. #29Psychology#25
  23. #21Social Sciences#32

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 Chile rankIreland rank Chile top 10%Ireland top 10% Chile worksIreland works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #34 #29 9.7% 16.0% 3.2k 2k
Arts and Humanities #25 #34 10.0% 12.3% 3.9k 2.3k
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #40 #26 8.2% 12.2% 2.5k 2.9k
Business, Management and Accounting #37 #32 10.8% 17.5% 1.5k 1.3k
Chemistry #46 #28 8.2% 11.0% 655 587
Computer Science #37 #30 8.5% 11.6% 3.2k 3.7k
Decision Sciences #32 #27 10.6% 13.3% 486 540
Dentistry #29 #31 7.7% 15.8% 506 212
Earth and Planetary Sciences #26 #30 7.9% 11.9% 1.3k 598
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #34 #32 9.3% 11.8% 1.3k 1.3k
Energy #33 #36 7.0% 11.4% 490 304
Engineering #38 #30 9.2% 12.8% 5k 5.6k
Environmental Science #36 #32 7.2% 12.2% 4.3k 2.4k
Health Professions #31 #26 9.4% 11.6% 2.5k 2.7k
Immunology and Microbiology #38 #23 7.6% 12.5% 526 573
Materials Science #43 #28 7.3% 13.2% 1.1k 1k
Mathematics #33 #36 7.3% 10.8% 831 441
Medicine #31 #26 7.9% 11.3% 10k 15k
Neuroscience #30 #25 9.6% 12.8% 947 1.1k
Nursing #36 #28 9.6% 15.1% 264 363
Physics and Astronomy #29 #35 7.9% 9.5% 2k 841
Psychology #29 #25 9.7% 12.7% 3.2k 2.8k
Social Sciences #21 #32 11.7% 14.0% 16k 7.5k

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.

Chile

▲ 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. Globalization4,896▲ 3.3×170 topics
  2. Education3,806▲ 2.9×147 topics
  3. Latin America3,598▲ 25×23 topics
  4. Epidemiology3,419◆ 1.14×139 topics
  5. Climate Change2,893▲ 1.41×121 topics
  6. Human Rights2,435▲ 3.2×83 topics
  7. Sustainability2,232▲ 1.21×126 topics
  8. Mental Health2,192▲ 2.0×48 topics
  9. Public Health2,111▲ 1.93×75 topics
  10. Social Movements1,958▲ 8.8×30 topics
  11. Quality of Life1,827▲ 1.68×60 topics
  12. Colonialism1,516▲ 4.2×48 topics
  13. Cultural Identity1,503▲ 4.0×36 topics
  14. Ethics1,421▲ 3.7×60 topics
  15. Social Inequality1,404▲ 7.0×20 topics
  16. Memory1,402▲ 7.6×23 topics
  17. Health Promotion1,361▲ 5.7×18 topics
  18. Community Participation1,193▲ 4.5×18 topics
  19. Inclusive Education1,092▲ 4.0×20 topics
  20. Political Violence1,085▲ 57×3 topics
  21. Migrant Integration1,057▲ 41×2 topics
  22. Healthcare Access1,032▲ 5.0×13 topics
  23. Dictatorship1,028▲ 78×2 topics
  24. Poetry968▲ 39×3 topics
  25. Indigenous Knowledge950▲ 12×9 topics
  26. Teacher Development908▲ 19×3 topics
  27. Educational Leadership894▲ 9.4×4 topics
  28. Student Performance860▲ 11×5 topics
  29. Chile855▲ 122×1 topic
  30. Pinochet855▲ 122×1 topic
  31. Welfare State848▲ 14×4 topics
  32. Curriculum Design845▲ 16×3 topics
  33. Ethical Education842▲ 23×2 topics
  34. Educational Innovation841▲ 21×4 topics
  35. Quality Education837▲ 31×1 topic
  36. School Culture837▲ 31×1 topic
  37. Intercultural Education813▲ 14×5 topics
  38. Literary Discourse790▲ 47×2 topics
  39. Interculturalism786▲ 89×1 topic
  40. Mapuche786▲ 89×1 topic

Ireland

▲ 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. Epidemiology3,426▲ 1.32×140 topics
  2. Machine Learning1,968◆ 0.91×97 topics
  3. Deep Learning1,901▼ 0.85×85 topics
  4. Inflammation1,794▲ 1.30×83 topics
  5. Climate Change1,640◆ 0.93×126 topics
  6. Quality of Life1,554▲ 1.66×60 topics
  7. Public Health1,496▲ 1.58×74 topics
  8. Globalization1,471◆ 1.15×169 topics
  9. Mental Health1,411▲ 1.52×48 topics
  10. Sustainability1,365▼ 0.86×128 topics
  11. Identity1,177▲ 2.5×76 topics
  12. Risk Factors1,162▲ 1.63×37 topics
  13. Treatment1,069▲ 1.35×52 topics
  14. Nationalism979▲ 3.4×33 topics
  15. Healthcare974▲ 1.31×42 topics
  16. Depression963▲ 1.69×26 topics
  17. Cardiovascular Disease938▲ 1.27×39 topics
  18. Diagnosis800▲ 1.32×41 topics
  19. Mortality754▲ 2.0×13 topics
  20. Big Data735▲ 1.18×36 topics
  21. Metabolic Syndrome707▲ 1.34×24 topics
  22. Primary Care706▲ 2.9×15 topics
  23. Clinical Trials691▲ 1.59×19 topics
  24. Ethnicity682▲ 2.8×25 topics
  25. Aging678▲ 1.92×19 topics
  26. Clinical Practice Guidelines619▲ 1.73×14 topics
  27. Gender605▲ 1.73×57 topics
  28. Anxiety598▲ 1.93×12 topics
  29. Ethics595▲ 1.81×57 topics
  30. Conflict588▲ 5.6×11 topics
  31. Colonialism580▲ 1.88×50 topics
  32. Transition568▲ 9.9×6 topics
  33. Guidelines565▲ 1.84×13 topics
  34. Ethical Considerations545▲ 2.4×21 topics
  35. Reconciliation466▲ 42×2 topics
  36. Paramilitarism463▲ 37×2 topics
  37. Peace Process463▲ 37×2 topics
  38. Consociationalism460▲ 61×1 topic
  39. Northern Ireland460▲ 61×1 topic
  40. Elderly Patients408▲ 3.7×4 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?

Chile has out-published Ireland every year since 2013, when it overtook it.

still counting10k20kChile18k in 2025Ireland15k 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 counting0.20%0.40%0.60%Chile0.30% in 2025Ireland0.26% 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 counting5%10%15%Ireland11.9% in 2025Chile9.1% 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.

Chile 02 level3 Ireland
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 0In the top 5002
  4. 2In the top 1,0006
  5. #37Elite capacityrank among 204 countries#26

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, Chile or Ireland?

Chile publishes 1.2× as much research as Ireland in 2022-now (67k against 57k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Chile or Ireland?

12.5% of Ireland's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 9.4% for Chile.

Is Chile or Ireland growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +4% against 2018-21 for Ireland, and +2% for Chile.

Which has more open access research, Chile or Ireland?

67% of Chile's research is free to read, against 42% of Ireland's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Chile or Ireland?

Chile holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Ireland 0; in the top 1,000 it is 2 against 6.

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%.

Chile

  1. 1Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile9.8% top 10% · 6.5k works
  2. 2University of Chile8.1% top 10% · 7.4k works
  3. 3Universidad Andrés Bello11.5% top 10% · 1.8k works
  4. 4Catholic University of the Maule11.2% top 10% · 1.4k works
  5. 5Universidad de Santiago de Chile7.6% top 10% · 2.6k works
  6. 6Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso11.5% top 10% · 1.9k works

Ireland

  1. 1Trinity College Dublin12.5% top 10% · 8.7k works
  2. 2University College Dublin13.3% top 10% · 11k works
  3. 3University College Cork12.4% top 10% · 6.3k works
  4. 4University of Limerick13.4% top 10% · 4k works
  5. 5Dublin City University14.9% top 10% · 3.6k works
  6. 6Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway13.3% top 10% · 4.6k 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.

Chile

  1. 1 Homero Gil de Zúñiga #11,148 worldwide 16k citations · 246 works
  2. 2 R. Kneißl #11,420 worldwide 55k citations · 311 works
  3. 3 Maribel Guerrero #13,009 worldwide 10k citations · 231 works
  4. 4 Claudio A. Hetz #15,485 worldwide 51k citations · 301 works
  5. 5 Andreas Rosenkranz #18,343 worldwide 12k citations · 272 works

Ireland

  1. 1 John F. Cryan #7,253 worldwide 121k citations · 1,303 works
  2. 2 Daniel G. Bradley #7,738 worldwide 31k citations · 297 works
  3. 3 Sarbast Moslem #8,647 worldwide 4.1k citations · 161 works
  4. 4 Liam O’Mahony #8,737 worldwide 35k citations · 369 works
  5. 5 John Gerard Laffey #9,250 worldwide 42k citations · 705 works

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