Costa Rica vs Uruguay
On research quality in 2022-now, Uruguay ranks #80 in the world and Costa Rica #84, of 189 countries. Costa Rica stands higher in 4 of the 12 fields both publish in, Uruguay in 8.
Research profiles alike: 0.81very 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.
Uruguay
- World rank, 2022-now
- #80
- #73 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 10k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 5.7%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 58%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Life-span and Life-course Studies, Paleontology, General Social Sciences.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Uruguay leads on 5 of 9 measures: research quality, citation excellence for its fields, citations per work, international co-authorship and growth. Costa Rica leads on 2 of 9 measures: output and open access. The two are level on top-10% rate and institutions in the world top 100.
- #84Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#80
- 0.68×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.70×
- 12kOutputfractional works, 2022-now10k
- 5.6%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.7%
- 5.3Citations per workall time, per fractional work9.6
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 70%Open accessof its works free to read, all time58%
- 25%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time36%
- -12%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+6%
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 4 of 12 fields, Uruguay in 8. Uruguay leads most in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (#54 against #78); Costa Rica leads most in Environmental Science (#71 against #88). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- #71Agricultural and Biological Sciences#83
- #72Arts and Humanities#60
- #78Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#54
- #75Business, Management and Accounting#87
- #92Computer Science#100
- #78Economics, Econometrics and Finance#77
- #113Engineering#102
- #71Environmental Science#88
- #78Health Professions#60
- #80Medicine#65
- #74Psychology#68
- #75Social Sciences#67
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 | Uruguay rank | Costa Rica top 10% | Uruguay top 10% | Costa Rica works | Uruguay works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | #71 | #83 | 4.9% | 6.1% | 1.2k | 914 |
| Arts and Humanities | #72 | #60 | 6.9% | 8.3% | 659 | 354 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | #78 | #54 | 5.2% | 5.2% | 415 | 624 |
| Business, Management and Accounting | #75 | #87 | 6.9% | 5.5% | 428 | 229 |
| Computer Science | #92 | #100 | 5.2% | 5.0% | 781 | 500 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | #78 | #77 | 6.1% | 7.3% | 388 | 240 |
| Engineering | #113 | #102 | 3.4% | 4.2% | 453 | 448 |
| Environmental Science | #71 | #88 | 5.7% | 5.2% | 905 | 686 |
| Health Professions | #78 | #60 | 6.2% | 4.9% | 463 | 460 |
| Medicine | #80 | #65 | 3.9% | 4.1% | 1.5k | 2.2k |
| Psychology | #74 | #68 | 4.9% | 4.8% | 415 | 333 |
| Social Sciences | #75 | #67 | 6.9% | 7.6% | 3.1k | 2.2k |
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
Uruguay
- Aging Population
- Legal Philosophy
- Research
- Welfare State
- Chronic Diseases
- Inclusive Education
- Health Policy
- Invasive Species
- Social Determinants
- Teacher Training
- Healthcare Access
- Qualitative Research
- Healthcare
- Innovation
- Mental Health
- Biodiversity
- Latin America
- Sustainability
- Public Health
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Globalization
- Education
- Quality of Life
- Educational Technology
- Human Rights
- Oxidative Stress
- Sustainable Development
- Public Policy
- Treatment
- Knowledge Management
- Social Movements
- Social Inequality
- Drug Resistance
- Communication
- Evolution
- Inequality
- Constitutional Law
- Legal Theory
- Dairy Cattle
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology790▲ 1.68×137 topics
- Climate Change549▲ 1.71×107 topics
- Globalization529▲ 2.3×120 topics
- Public Health505▲ 2.9×68 topics
- Education416▲ 2.0×104 topics
- Sustainability402▲ 1.39×101 topics
- Quality of Life357▲ 2.1×58 topics
- Latin America301▲ 13×23 topics
- Educational Technology292▲ 2.1×37 topics
- Biodiversity287▲ 3.2×33 topics
- Human Rights286▲ 2.4×58 topics
- Mental Health259▲ 1.53×47 topics
- Oxidative Stress258▲ 1.32×60 topics
- Innovation246▲ 2.0×56 topics
- Sustainable Development245▲ 1.32×66 topics
- Healthcare238▲ 1.76×29 topics
- Public Policy231▲ 4.1×23 topics
- Qualitative Research220▲ 2.2×31 topics
- Treatment218▲ 1.52×51 topics
- Healthcare Access205▲ 6.4×12 topics
- Knowledge Management196▲ 3.0×29 topics
- Teacher Training196▲ 2.7×23 topics
- Social Movements192▲ 5.5×29 topics
- Social Determinants181▲ 7.4×8 topics
- Social Inequality169▲ 5.3×16 topics
- Invasive Species160▲ 3.2×20 topics
- Drug Resistance157▲ 4.6×9 topics
- Health Policy156▲ 8.6×7 topics
- Communication144▲ 3.9×23 topics
- Inclusive Education138▲ 3.2×18 topics
- Evolution135▲ 4.2×17 topics
- Chronic Diseases127▲ 4.2×9 topics
- Inequality117▲ 4.3×15 topics
- Welfare State106▲ 11×4 topics
- Constitutional Law102▲ 6.6×7 topics
- Research99▲ 6.7×10 topics
- Legal Theory98▲ 12×3 topics
- Legal Philosophy96▲ 13×2 topics
- Dairy Cattle95▲ 15×2 topics
- Aging Population95▲ 9.1×4 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?
Costa Rica has out-published Uruguay every year since 1982, when it overtook it.
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 Uruguay?
Costa Rica publishes 1.1× as much research as Uruguay in 2022-now (12k against 10k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Costa Rica or Uruguay?
5.7% of Uruguay's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.6% for Costa Rica.
Is Costa Rica or Uruguay growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +6% against 2018-21 for Uruguay, and -12% for Costa Rica.
Which has more open access research, Costa Rica or Uruguay?
70% of Costa Rica's research is free to read, against 58% of Uruguay's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Costa Rica or Uruguay?
Costa Rica holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Uruguay 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
Uruguay
- 1Universidad de la República de Uruguay5.3% top 10% · 5.3k works
- 2Universitario Francisco de Asís4.0% top 10% · 1.6k works
- 3Universidad de Montevideo5.6% top 10% · 567 works
- 4Universidad Católica del Uruguay9.4% top 10% · 277 works
- 5Universidad ORT Uruguay10.3% top 10% · 276 works
- 6Ministerio de Educación y Cultura9.5% top 10% · 195 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
Uruguay
- 1 Rafael Radí #57,480 worldwide 48k citations · 529 works
- 2 Valentina Colistro #96,125 worldwide 24k citations · 76 works
- 3 Gustavo J. Nagy #150,922 worldwide 3.4k citations · 101 works
- 4 José Luis Badano #151,123 worldwide 8.5k citations · 73 works
- 5 Gastón Ares #170,491 worldwide 24k citations · 521 works