Costa Rica vs Honduras
On research quality in 2022-now, Costa Rica ranks #84 in the world and Honduras #115, of 189 countries. Costa Rica stands higher in 12 of the 12 fields both publish in, Honduras in 0.
Research profiles alike: 0.85very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured
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Costa Rica
- World rank, 2022-now
- #84
- #69 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 12k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 5.6%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 70%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Horticulture, Life-span and Life-course Studies, General Social Sciences.
Honduras
- World rank, 2022-now
- #115
- #120 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 1.9k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 4.7%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 61%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Horticulture, Development, Algebra and Number Theory.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Costa Rica leads on 5 of 9 measures: research quality, output, top-10% rate, citations per work and open access. Honduras leads on 3 of 9 measures: citation excellence for its fields, international co-authorship and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.
- #84Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#115
- 0.68×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.70×
- 12kOutputfractional works, 2022-now1.9k
- 5.6%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited4.7%
- 5.3Citations per workall time, per fractional work4.0
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 70%Open accessof its works free to read, all time61%
- 25%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time30%
- -12%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+24%
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?
Costa Rica stands higher in 12 of 12 fields, Honduras in 0. Costa Rica leads most in Social Sciences (#75 against #92). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- #71Agricultural and Biological Sciences-
- #72Arts and Humanities-
- #78Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-
- #75Business, Management and Accounting-
- #92Computer Science-
- #78Economics, Econometrics and Finance-
- #113Engineering-
- #71Environmental Science-
- #78Health Professions-
- #80Medicine#91
- #74Psychology-
- #75Social Sciences#92
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 | Costa Rica rank | Honduras rank | Costa Rica top 10% | Honduras top 10% | Costa Rica works | Honduras works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | #71 | - | 4.9% | - | 1.2k | - |
| Arts and Humanities | #72 | - | 6.9% | - | 659 | - |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | #78 | - | 5.2% | - | 415 | - |
| Business, Management and Accounting | #75 | - | 6.9% | - | 428 | - |
| Computer Science | #92 | - | 5.2% | - | 781 | - |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | #78 | - | 6.1% | - | 388 | - |
| Engineering | #113 | - | 3.4% | - | 453 | - |
| Environmental Science | #71 | - | 5.7% | - | 905 | - |
| Health Professions | #78 | - | 6.2% | - | 463 | - |
| Medicine | #80 | #91 | 3.9% | 3.7% | 1.5k | 362 |
| Psychology | #74 | - | 4.9% | - | 415 | - |
| Social Sciences | #75 | #92 | 6.9% | 6.0% | 3.1k | 411 |
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.
Costa Rica
- Student Performance
- Informal Learning
- Competitiveness
- Social Responsibility
- Rural Development
- Online Education
- Communication
- Inclusive Education
- Public Policy
- Nutrition
- Technology
- Distance Learning
- Digital Marketing
- Knowledge Management
- COVID-19
- Sustainable Development
- Latin America
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
- Education
- Globalization
- Innovation
- Public Health
- Educational Technology
- E-Learning
- Biodiversity
- Pedagogy
- Teacher Training
- Health Promotion
- Urban Development
- Social Movements
- Digital Divide
- Community Participation
- ICT
- Digital Competence
- Virtual Teaching
- Innovation Ecosystems
- Small and Medium Enterprises
- Teacher Development
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Education1,117▲ 4.8×120 topics
- Climate Change793▲ 2.2×110 topics
- Globalization791▲ 3.0×135 topics
- Sustainability722▲ 2.2×109 topics
- Innovation614▲ 4.4×66 topics
- Epidemiology600◆ 1.12×138 topics
- Public Health553▲ 2.8×73 topics
- Latin America514▲ 20×23 topics
- Educational Technology485▲ 3.1×39 topics
- Sustainable Development470▲ 2.2×77 topics
- E-Learning466▲ 3.6×20 topics
- COVID-19453▲ 2.6×30 topics
- Biodiversity426▲ 4.2×33 topics
- Knowledge Management412▲ 5.5×32 topics
- Pedagogy396▲ 5.9×23 topics
- Digital Marketing347▲ 6.7×5 topics
- Teacher Training345▲ 4.2×25 topics
- Distance Learning342▲ 7.4×12 topics
- Health Promotion338▲ 8.0×17 topics
- Technology318▲ 4.5×33 topics
- Urban Development272▲ 5.8×17 topics
- Nutrition272▲ 4.6×18 topics
- Social Movements269▲ 6.8×29 topics
- Public Policy268▲ 4.2×27 topics
- Digital Divide266▲ 7.7×8 topics
- Inclusive Education264▲ 5.5×18 topics
- Community Participation252▲ 5.3×15 topics
- Communication250▲ 5.9×19 topics
- ICT247▲ 14×5 topics
- Online Education246▲ 9.5×6 topics
- Digital Competence246▲ 21×3 topics
- Rural Development242▲ 5.2×17 topics
- Virtual Teaching242▲ 33×1 topic
- Social Responsibility233▲ 7.5×10 topics
- Innovation Ecosystems230▲ 17×4 topics
- Competitiveness230▲ 22×6 topics
- Small and Medium Enterprises228▲ 9.6×7 topics
- Informal Learning223▲ 13×6 topics
- Teacher Development207▲ 25×2 topics
- Student Performance199▲ 14×3 topics
Honduras
- Virtual Teaching
- Online Education
- Global Health
- Inclusive Education
- Healthcare Access
- Public Policy
- Distance Learning
- Pedagogy
- Teacher Training
- Tourism Management
- Globalization Effects
- Social Responsibility
- COVID-19
- Rural Development
- Small and Medium Enterprises
- Sustainable Development
- Knowledge Management
- Innovation
- Public Health
- Epidemiology
- Education
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
- Globalization
- Digital Marketing
- Health Promotion
- Urban Development
- Innovation Ecosystems
- Economic Impact
- E-Learning
- Psychopharmacology Education
- Nutrition
- Competitiveness
- Latin America
- Community Participation
- Organizational Culture
- Sustainable Agriculture
- University Students
- ICT
- Digital Competence
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Education158▲ 4.2×59 topics
- Epidemiology152▲ 1.75×128 topics
- Sustainability140▲ 2.6×68 topics
- Public Health124▲ 3.9×58 topics
- Climate Change121▲ 2.0×83 topics
- Innovation108▲ 4.8×34 topics
- Globalization106▲ 2.5×61 topics
- Knowledge Management88▲ 7.2×19 topics
- Digital Marketing80▲ 9.4×2 topics
- Sustainable Development78▲ 2.3×40 topics
- Health Promotion77▲ 11×14 topics
- Small and Medium Enterprises74▲ 19×4 topics
- Urban Development71▲ 9.2×12 topics
- Rural Development69▲ 9.2×13 topics
- Innovation Ecosystems68▲ 31×2 topics
- COVID-1968▲ 2.4×25 topics
- Economic Impact68▲ 5.8×6 topics
- Social Responsibility64▲ 13×4 topics
- E-Learning64▲ 3.0×11 topics
- Globalization Effects61▲ 41×2 topics
- Psychopharmacology Education61▲ 45×1 topic
- Tourism Management61▲ 40×1 topic
- Nutrition57▲ 5.9×9 topics
- Teacher Training55▲ 4.1×18 topics
- Competitiveness54▲ 31×6 topics
- Pedagogy53▲ 4.9×13 topics
- Latin America52▲ 13×20 topics
- Distance Learning51▲ 6.7×9 topics
- Community Participation50▲ 6.4×12 topics
- Public Policy48▲ 4.6×14 topics
- Organizational Culture46▲ 5.4×11 topics
- Healthcare Access43▲ 7.2×9 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture43▲ 6.3×11 topics
- Inclusive Education41▲ 5.2×13 topics
- University Students37▲ 30×2 topics
- Global Health36▲ 11×6 topics
- ICT36▲ 12×3 topics
- Online Education36▲ 8.4×4 topics
- Digital Competence35▲ 18×2 topics
- Virtual Teaching34▲ 29×1 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?
Costa Rica has out-published Honduras every year since 1980.
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.
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%).
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.
- 0In the world top 500
- 0In the top 1000
- 0In the top 5000
- 0In the top 1,0000
- #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, Costa Rica or Honduras?
Costa Rica publishes 6.0× as much research as Honduras in 2022-now (12k against 1.9k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Costa Rica or Honduras?
5.6% of Costa Rica's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.7% for Honduras.
Is Costa Rica or Honduras growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +24% against 2018-21 for Honduras, and -12% for Costa Rica.
Which has more open access research, Costa Rica or Honduras?
70% of Costa Rica's research is free to read, against 61% of Honduras's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Costa Rica or Honduras?
Costa Rica holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Honduras 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%.
Costa Rica
- 1Universidad de Costa Rica5.5% top 10% · 3.8k works
- 2Universidad Independiente5.5% top 10% · 842 works
- 3Universidad Nacional5.4% top 10% · 1.1k works
- 4Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica4.5% top 10% · 891 works
- 5Universidad de Ciencias Medicas3.3% top 10% · 630 works
- 6Distance State University5.4% top 10% · 570 works
Honduras
- 1National Autonomous University of Honduras4.3% top 10% · 725 works
- 2Central American Technological University2.1% top 10% · 307 works
- 3Secretaria de Salud6.6% top 10% · 216 works
- 4Honduras Foundation for Agricultural Research4.5% top 10% · 136 works
- 5Universidad Metropolitana de Honduras5.2% top 10% · 105 works
- 6Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Francisco Morazán6.3% top 10% · 119 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.
Costa Rica
- 1 Luciano Ciravegna #118,588 worldwide 3.6k citations · 112 works
- 2 Juan Robalino #140,153 worldwide 4.1k citations · 83 works
- 3 Carolina Porras #144,308 worldwide 7.9k citations · 170 works
- 4 Célia A. Harvey #194,862 worldwide 14k citations · 233 works
- 5 María A. Maglianesi #245,024 worldwide 1.6k citations · 50 works
Honduras
- 1 Eddy Paz-Maldonado #570,734 worldwide 537 citations · 48 works
- 2 Ligia Fú #622,502 worldwide 1.7k citations · 49 works
- 3 Miguel Landa–Blanco #728,984 worldwide 616 citations · 67 works
- 4 Annabelle Ferrera #733,992 worldwide 5.1k citations · 42 works
- 5 Marco Tulio Medina #804,613 worldwide 7.6k citations · 147 works