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Croatia vs Georgia

On research quality in 2022-now, Croatia ranks #52 in the world and Georgia #120, of 189 countries. Croatia stands higher in 23 of the 23 fields both publish in, Georgia in 0.

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Croatia

World rank, 2022-now
#52
#59 all time
Works, 2022-now
38k
fractional
Top-10% rate
6.5%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
61%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Industrial relations, Library and Information Sciences, Space and Planetary Science.

Georgia

World rank, 2022-now
#120
#129 all time
Works, 2022-now
11k
fractional
Top-10% rate
3.6%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
55%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: General Energy, Classics, Archeology.

Who leads, measure by measure?

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

Croatia 61 level2 Georgia
  1. #52Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#120
  2. 0.76×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.40×
  3. 38kOutputfractional works, 2022-now11k
  4. 6.5%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited3.6%
  5. 8.2Citations per workall time, per fractional work5.0
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 61%Open accessof its works free to read, all time55%
  8. 16%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time26%
  9. +2%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+81%

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?

Croatia stands higher in 23 of 23 fields, Georgia in 0. Croatia leads most in Business, Management and Accounting (#47 against #101). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Croatia 230 Georgia
  1. #54Agricultural and Biological Sciences#92
  2. #51Arts and Humanities#91
  3. #51Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#94
  4. #47Business, Management and Accounting#101
  5. #47Chemistry-
  6. #61Computer Science#122
  7. #49Decision Sciences-
  8. #38Dentistry-
  9. #48Earth and Planetary Sciences#59
  10. #48Economics, Econometrics and Finance#69
  11. #45Energy-
  12. #56Engineering#117
  13. #62Environmental Science#113
  14. #65Health Professions#100
  15. #43Immunology and Microbiology-
  16. #49Materials Science-
  17. #53Mathematics#78
  18. #54Medicine#108
  19. #53Neuroscience-
  20. #43Nursing-
  21. #44Physics and Astronomy#54
  22. #52Psychology#93
  23. #69Social Sciences#106

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 Croatia rankGeorgia rank Croatia top 10%Georgia top 10% Croatia worksGeorgia works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #54 #92 9.1% 1.9% 1.8k 1k
Arts and Humanities #51 #91 4.9% 2.6% 2.4k 883
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #51 #94 7.2% 3.5% 1.5k 410
Business, Management and Accounting #47 #101 8.5% 3.8% 1.3k 352
Chemistry #47 - 6.3% - 490 -
Computer Science #61 #122 7.8% 4.0% 2.2k 421
Decision Sciences #49 - 8.2% - 374 -
Dentistry #38 - 12.7% - 294 -
Earth and Planetary Sciences #48 #59 5.8% 3.7% 646 207
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #48 #69 5.5% 6.6% 2.4k 846
Energy #45 - 8.1% - 229 -
Engineering #56 #117 6.2% 4.0% 4.3k 597
Environmental Science #62 #113 5.9% 5.0% 2.2k 366
Health Professions #65 #100 5.9% 3.5% 882 209
Immunology and Microbiology #43 - 7.9% - 314 -
Materials Science #49 - 5.4% - 691 -
Mathematics #53 #78 5.2% 3.2% 443 251
Medicine #54 #108 7.2% 3.6% 7.3k 1.5k
Neuroscience #53 - 5.7% - 473 -
Nursing #43 - 6.6% - 217 -
Physics and Astronomy #44 #54 7.0% 4.4% 518 208
Psychology #52 #93 5.5% 2.8% 1.5k 283
Social Sciences #69 #106 5.5% 3.6% 5.8k 2.4k

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.

Croatia

▲ 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. Epidemiology1,625◆ 0.95×139 topics
  2. Sustainable Development1,368▲ 2.0×105 topics
  3. Sustainability1,296▲ 1.23×127 topics
  4. Climate Change1,230◆ 1.05×124 topics
  5. Economic Growth1,129▲ 3.2×35 topics
  6. International Relations1,106▲ 11×28 topics
  7. International Trade1,024▲ 17×12 topics
  8. Nation-Building1,018▲ 45×4 topics
  9. Foreign Policy1,008▲ 62×4 topics
  10. Sovereign Debt Crises1,002▲ 58×2 topics
  11. Negotiation992▲ 65×4 topics
  12. Commercial Diplomacy976▲ 193×1 topic
  13. Economic Diplomacy976▲ 193×1 topic
  14. Religion893▲ 4.5×43 topics
  15. Artificial Intelligence889▲ 1.45×62 topics
  16. Regional Development810▲ 5.5×19 topics
  17. Organizational Culture800▲ 4.8×16 topics
  18. Financial Performance799▲ 3.3×16 topics
  19. Ethics774▲ 3.6×58 topics
  20. Innovation Management742▲ 11×9 topics
  21. Small and Medium Enterprises722▲ 9.5×10 topics
  22. Agricultural Sustainability716▲ 15×6 topics
  23. Rural Tourism696▲ 52×3 topics
  24. Leadership Emergence693▲ 117×1 topic
  25. Identity680▲ 2.2×75 topics
  26. Resilience629▲ 3.0×17 topics
  27. Climate Change Impact621▲ 6.3×8 topics
  28. Environmental Policy580▲ 6.7×14 topics
  29. Water Quality Monitoring549▲ 16×3 topics
  30. Hydrological Analysis530▲ 34×2 topics
  31. Socio-economic Factors524▲ 11×3 topics
  32. Water Resources Management523▲ 92×2 topics
  33. Global Water Resources517▲ 127×1 topic
  34. Integrated Management517▲ 127×1 topic
  35. Media478▲ 7.4×18 topics
  36. Spirituality468▲ 11×7 topics
  37. Social Change455▲ 8.6×19 topics
  38. Cultural Integration449▲ 4.9×3 topics
  39. Communication Technology422▲ 79×1 topic
  40. Youth Subcultures422▲ 79×1 topic

Georgia

▲ 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. Globalization1,176▲ 4.8×126 topics
  2. Innovation819▲ 6.4×66 topics
  3. Economic Development692▲ 7.0×45 topics
  4. Sustainability667▲ 2.2×104 topics
  5. Climate Change618▲ 1.83×109 topics
  6. Sustainable Development519▲ 2.7×90 topics
  7. Labor Market493▲ 14×17 topics
  8. Medicinal Plants472▲ 9.8×18 topics
  9. Agriculture471▲ 10.0×13 topics
  10. Human Capital441▲ 23×10 topics
  11. Financial Crisis412▲ 30×13 topics
  12. Education410▲ 1.92×94 topics
  13. Artificial Intelligence396▲ 2.2×51 topics
  14. Post-Communist Countries380▲ 199×1 topic
  15. Trade Relations380▲ 199×1 topic
  16. Human Rights355▲ 2.8×76 topics
  17. Migration318▲ 7.5×30 topics
  18. Antioxidant291▲ 3.4×50 topics
  19. Digital Transformation272▲ 4.1×27 topics
  20. Language269▲ 8.8×14 topics
  21. Linguistics247▲ 13×7 topics
  22. Herbal Medicine232▲ 6.7×13 topics
  23. Biogeography230▲ 6.7×20 topics
  24. Regional Development228▲ 5.4×19 topics
  25. Phylogeny225▲ 11×17 topics
  26. Drug Discovery205▲ 7.4×12 topics
  27. Economy197▲ 21×4 topics
  28. International Relations189▲ 6.3×28 topics
  29. Phytochemical Constituents188▲ 49×2 topics
  30. Ethnobotanical Survey187▲ 47×1 topic
  31. Traditional Ecological Knowledge187▲ 35×1 topic
  32. Political Economy180▲ 5.7×17 topics
  33. Etymology174▲ 30×2 topics
  34. Historical Phonology174▲ 30×2 topics
  35. Russia172▲ 33×3 topics
  36. Sovereignty170▲ 15×9 topics
  37. Nation-Building168▲ 25×4 topics
  38. Taxonomy162▲ 9.0×15 topics
  39. Central Asia159▲ 18×4 topics
  40. Geopolitics156▲ 8.3×11 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?

Croatia has out-published Georgia every year since 1980.

still counting5k10k15kCroatia10k in 2025Georgia3,329 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%0.30%Croatia0.18% in 2025Georgia0.057% 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 counting5%10%Croatia7.0% in 2025Georgia3.5% 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.

Croatia 05 level0 Georgia
  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, Croatia or Georgia?

Croatia publishes 3.6× as much research as Georgia in 2022-now (38k against 11k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Croatia or Georgia?

6.5% of Croatia's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 3.6% for Georgia.

Is Croatia or Georgia growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +81% against 2018-21 for Georgia, and +2% for Croatia.

Which has more open access research, Croatia or Georgia?

61% of Croatia's research is free to read, against 55% of Georgia's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Croatia or Georgia?

Croatia holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Georgia 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%.

Croatia

  1. 1University of Zagreb6.5% top 10% · 14k works
  2. 2University of Split8.1% top 10% · 3.2k works
  3. 3University of Osijek7.3% top 10% · 2.8k works
  4. 4University of Rijeka7.2% top 10% · 3k works
  5. 5University North9.0% top 10% · 597 works
  6. 6Institut za filozofiju3.7% top 10% · 1.5k works

Georgia

  1. 1Ilia State University3.6% top 10% · 1.6k works
  2. 2Tbilisi State University3.4% top 10% · 2.1k works
  3. 3Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University4.5% top 10% · 649 works
  4. 4International Black Sea University6.3% top 10% · 261 works
  5. 5University of Georgia14.7% top 10% · 218 works
  6. 6Georgian Technical University2.1% top 10% · 1.1k 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.

Croatia

  1. 1 D. Mekterović #10,978 worldwide 52k citations · 552 works
  2. 2 Ozren Polašek #21,112 worldwide 75k citations · 684 works
  3. 3 R. Gupta #26,416 worldwide 7.7k citations · 106 works
  4. 4 G. I. Veres #32,507 worldwide 16k citations · 246 works
  5. 5 T. Virdee #36,724 worldwide 11k citations · 145 works

Georgia

  1. 1 F. Chlebana #33,051 worldwide 6k citations · 76 works
  2. 2 David Lordkipanidze #43,553 worldwide 8.8k citations · 168 works
  3. 3 J. Sturdy #43,642 worldwide 6.3k citations · 89 works
  4. 4 A. Petrilli #45,877 worldwide 3.4k citations · 55 works
  5. 5 K. Sung #50,952 worldwide 7.7k citations · 100 works