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On research quality in 2022-now, Costa Rica ranks #84 in the world and Jordan #85, of 189 countries. Costa Rica stands higher in 7 of the 23 fields both publish in, Jordan in 16.

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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.

Jordan

World rank, 2022-now
#85
#100 all time
Works, 2022-now
33k
fractional
Top-10% rate
14.6%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
53%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Research and Theory, Modeling and Simulation, Numerical Analysis.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Jordan leads on 6 of 9 measures: citation excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, citations per work, international co-authorship and growth. Costa Rica leads on 2 of 9 measures: research quality and open access. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Costa Rica 21 level6 Jordan
  1. #84Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#85
  2. 0.68×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected1.06×
  3. 12kOutputfractional works, 2022-now33k
  4. 5.6%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited14.6%
  5. 5.3Citations per workall time, per fractional work13.2
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 70%Open accessof its works free to read, all time53%
  8. 25%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time31%
  9. -12%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+65%

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 7 of 23 fields, Jordan in 16. Jordan leads most in Engineering (#64 against #113); Costa Rica leads most in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#71 against #110). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Costa Rica 716 Jordan
  1. #71Agricultural and Biological Sciences#110
  2. #72Arts and Humanities#77
  3. #78Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#90
  4. #75Business, Management and Accounting#58
  5. -Chemistry#62
  6. #92Computer Science#54
  7. -Decision Sciences#50
  8. -Dentistry#52
  9. #78Economics, Econometrics and Finance#82
  10. -Energy#47
  11. #113Engineering#64
  12. #71Environmental Science#97
  13. #78Health Professions#69
  14. -Immunology and Microbiology#67
  15. -Materials Science#71
  16. -Mathematics#58
  17. #80Medicine#82
  18. -Neuroscience#62
  19. -Nursing#58
  20. -Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#41
  21. -Physics and Astronomy#69
  22. #74Psychology#71
  23. #75Social Sciences#108

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 rankJordan rank Costa Rica top 10%Jordan top 10% Costa Rica worksJordan works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #71 #110 4.9% 12.4% 1.2k 834
Arts and Humanities #72 #77 6.9% 19.5% 659 930
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #78 #90 5.2% 8.9% 415 1.1k
Business, Management and Accounting #75 #58 6.9% 25.7% 428 2.4k
Chemistry - #62 - 8.6% - 428
Computer Science #92 #54 5.2% 17.9% 781 4.7k
Decision Sciences - #50 - 22.1% - 772
Dentistry - #52 - 14.8% - 214
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #78 #82 6.1% 16.2% 388 787
Energy - #47 - 13.3% - 326
Engineering #113 #64 3.4% 13.4% 453 4.1k
Environmental Science #71 #97 5.7% 11.3% 905 1k
Health Professions #78 #69 6.2% 16.1% 463 1k
Immunology and Microbiology - #67 - 9.0% - 206
Materials Science - #71 - 12.2% - 859
Mathematics - #58 - 16.8% - 944
Medicine #80 #82 3.9% 10.2% 1.5k 5.8k
Neuroscience - #62 - 10.8% - 351
Nursing - #58 - 13.7% - 214
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics - #41 - 11.4% - 213
Physics and Astronomy - #69 - 13.6% - 369
Psychology #74 #71 4.9% 11.2% 415 1.4k
Social Sciences #75 #108 6.9% 14.3% 3.1k 4.3k

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

▲ 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. Education1,117▲ 4.8×120 topics
  2. Climate Change793▲ 2.2×110 topics
  3. Globalization791▲ 3.0×135 topics
  4. Sustainability722▲ 2.2×109 topics
  5. Innovation614▲ 4.4×66 topics
  6. Epidemiology600◆ 1.12×138 topics
  7. Public Health553▲ 2.8×73 topics
  8. Latin America514▲ 20×23 topics
  9. Educational Technology485▲ 3.1×39 topics
  10. Sustainable Development470▲ 2.2×77 topics
  11. E-Learning466▲ 3.6×20 topics
  12. COVID-19453▲ 2.6×30 topics
  13. Biodiversity426▲ 4.2×33 topics
  14. Knowledge Management412▲ 5.5×32 topics
  15. Pedagogy396▲ 5.9×23 topics
  16. Digital Marketing347▲ 6.7×5 topics
  17. Teacher Training345▲ 4.2×25 topics
  18. Distance Learning342▲ 7.4×12 topics
  19. Health Promotion338▲ 8.0×17 topics
  20. Technology318▲ 4.5×33 topics
  21. Urban Development272▲ 5.8×17 topics
  22. Nutrition272▲ 4.6×18 topics
  23. Social Movements269▲ 6.8×29 topics
  24. Public Policy268▲ 4.2×27 topics
  25. Digital Divide266▲ 7.7×8 topics
  26. Inclusive Education264▲ 5.5×18 topics
  27. Community Participation252▲ 5.3×15 topics
  28. Communication250▲ 5.9×19 topics
  29. ICT247▲ 14×5 topics
  30. Online Education246▲ 9.5×6 topics
  31. Digital Competence246▲ 21×3 topics
  32. Rural Development242▲ 5.2×17 topics
  33. Virtual Teaching242▲ 33×1 topic
  34. Social Responsibility233▲ 7.5×10 topics
  35. Innovation Ecosystems230▲ 17×4 topics
  36. Competitiveness230▲ 22×6 topics
  37. Small and Medium Enterprises228▲ 9.6×7 topics
  38. Informal Learning223▲ 13×6 topics
  39. Teacher Development207▲ 25×2 topics
  40. Student Performance199▲ 14×3 topics

Jordan

▲ 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. Machine Learning3,097▲ 2.4×97 topics
  2. Deep Learning1,938▲ 1.47×84 topics
  3. Supply Chain Management1,794▲ 5.2×26 topics
  4. Healthcare1,659▲ 3.8×35 topics
  5. Epidemiology1,387◆ 0.91×136 topics
  6. Digital Transformation1,217▲ 5.9×28 topics
  7. Customer Satisfaction1,206▲ 9.9×10 topics
  8. Smart Cities1,133▲ 11×8 topics
  9. IoT1,104▲ 7.7×19 topics
  10. Knowledge Management1,043▲ 4.9×36 topics
  11. Organizational Performance1,037▲ 10×11 topics
  12. Sustainability922◆ 0.99×107 topics
  13. Social Media Marketing916▲ 49×1 topic
  14. Artificial Intelligence870▲ 1.60×61 topics
  15. Mental Health822▲ 1.50×46 topics
  16. Corporate Governance818▲ 2.9×27 topics
  17. Education810▲ 1.23×103 topics
  18. COVID-19732▲ 1.48×31 topics
  19. Social Media730▲ 1.38×36 topics
  20. Risk Management717▲ 4.0×17 topics
  21. Internet of Things695▲ 2.1×30 topics
  22. Big Data689▲ 1.89×34 topics
  23. Depression622▲ 1.85×25 topics
  24. IoT Security508▲ 4.3×3 topics
  25. Financial Stability401▲ 5.5×8 topics
  26. Social Networks398▲ 3.8×13 topics
  27. Finance396▲ 5.6×4 topics
  28. Performance Analysis382▲ 4.8×5 topics
  29. User Satisfaction367▲ 5.0×4 topics
  30. Human Resource Management364▲ 6.2×8 topics
  31. Global Financial Crisis349▲ 7.0×3 topics
  32. Ethical Identity347▲ 7.8×1 topic
  33. Shariah Supervision347▲ 7.8×1 topic
  34. Technology Acceptance Model344▲ 5.8×2 topics
  35. Information Systems342▲ 5.2×8 topics
  36. Consumer Trust320▲ 8.8×1 topic
  37. Partial Least Squares320▲ 8.8×1 topic
  38. Localization306▲ 6.7×4 topics
  39. Guanxi285▲ 35×1 topic
  40. Wasta285▲ 35×1 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?

Jordan has out-published Costa Rica every year since 2017, when it overtook it.

still counting5k10kJordan9,745 in 2025Costa Rica3,351 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 counting0.10%0.20%Jordan0.17% in 2025Costa Rica0.057% 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%Jordan14.9% in 2025Costa Rica6.0% 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.

Costa Rica 05 level0 Jordan
  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, Costa Rica or Jordan?

Jordan publishes 2.9× as much research as Costa Rica in 2022-now (33k against 12k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Costa Rica or Jordan?

14.6% of Jordan's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.6% for Costa Rica.

Is Costa Rica or Jordan growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +65% against 2018-21 for Jordan, and -12% for Costa Rica.

Which has more open access research, Costa Rica or Jordan?

70% of Costa Rica's research is free to read, against 53% of Jordan's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Costa Rica or Jordan?

Costa Rica holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Jordan 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

  1. 1Universidad de Costa Rica5.5% top 10% · 3.8k works
  2. 2Universidad Independiente5.5% top 10% · 842 works
  3. 3Universidad Nacional5.4% top 10% · 1.1k works
  4. 4Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica4.5% top 10% · 891 works
  5. 5Universidad de Ciencias Medicas3.3% top 10% · 630 works
  6. 6Distance State University5.4% top 10% · 570 works

Jordan

  1. 1Applied Science Private University21.7% top 10% · 1.6k works
  2. 2Zarqa University17.4% top 10% · 1.7k works
  3. 3Al-Ahliyya Amman University31.4% top 10% · 1.2k works
  4. 4Jadara University24.4% top 10% · 836 works
  5. 5Yarmouk University12.2% top 10% · 2.3k works
  6. 6Amman Arab University21.9% top 10% · 643 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. 1 Luciano Ciravegna #118,588 worldwide 3.6k citations · 112 works
  2. 2 Juan Robalino #140,153 worldwide 4.1k citations · 83 works
  3. 3 Carolina Porras #144,308 worldwide 7.9k citations · 170 works
  4. 4 Célia A. Harvey #194,862 worldwide 14k citations · 233 works
  5. 5 María A. Maglianesi #245,024 worldwide 1.6k citations · 50 works

Jordan

  1. 1 Manaf Al‐Okaily #8,027 worldwide 7.7k citations · 170 works
  2. 2 Maha Moh’d Wahbi Atout #17,503 worldwide 48k citations · 121 works
  3. 3 Ali Abdallah Alalwan #17,704 worldwide 12k citations · 97 works
  4. 4 Ahmad Samed Al‐Adwan #21,132 worldwide 9.3k citations · 177 works
  5. 5 Marwan Mansour #23,450 worldwide 1.3k citations · 75 works