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On research quality in 2022-now, Croatia ranks #52 in the world and Lithuania #73, of 189 countries. Croatia stands higher in 20 of the 23 fields both publish in, Lithuania in 3.

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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.

Lithuania

World rank, 2022-now
#73
#71 all time
Works, 2022-now
20k
fractional
Top-10% rate
8.4%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
65%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: General Energy, Language and Linguistics, Algebra and Number Theory.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Lithuania leads on 5 of 9 measures: top-10% rate, citations per work, open access, international co-authorship and growth. Croatia leads on 3 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields and output. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Croatia 31 level5 Lithuania
  1. #52Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#73
  2. 0.76×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.71×
  3. 38kOutputfractional works, 2022-now20k
  4. 6.5%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited8.4%
  5. 8.2Citations per workall time, per fractional work8.7
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 61%Open accessof its works free to read, all time65%
  8. 16%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time18%
  9. +2%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, excellence and the top-10% rate are explained in the methodology.

Who leads in each field?

Croatia stands higher in 20 of 23 fields, Lithuania in 3. Croatia leads most in Earth and Planetary Sciences (#48 against #71); Lithuania leads most in Neuroscience (#50 against #53). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Croatia 203 Lithuania
  1. #54Agricultural and Biological Sciences#63
  2. #51Arts and Humanities#63
  3. #51Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#47
  4. #47Business, Management and Accounting#62
  5. #47Chemistry#64
  6. #61Computer Science#65
  7. #49Decision Sciences#59
  8. #38Dentistry-
  9. #48Earth and Planetary Sciences#71
  10. #48Economics, Econometrics and Finance#64
  11. #45Energy-
  12. #56Engineering#62
  13. #62Environmental Science#70
  14. #65Health Professions#63
  15. #43Immunology and Microbiology-
  16. #49Materials Science#56
  17. #53Mathematics#72
  18. #54Medicine#83
  19. #53Neuroscience#50
  20. #43Nursing-
  21. #44Physics and Astronomy#60
  22. #52Psychology#55
  23. #69Social Sciences#77

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 rankLithuania rank Croatia top 10%Lithuania top 10% Croatia worksLithuania works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #54 #63 9.1% 12.2% 1.8k 1.1k
Arts and Humanities #51 #63 4.9% 8.7% 2.4k 1.2k
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #51 #47 7.2% 8.2% 1.5k 796
Business, Management and Accounting #47 #62 8.5% 10.4% 1.3k 996
Chemistry #47 #64 6.3% 8.9% 490 222
Computer Science #61 #65 7.8% 9.0% 2.2k 1.1k
Decision Sciences #49 #59 8.2% 11.8% 374 207
Dentistry #38 - 12.7% - 294 -
Earth and Planetary Sciences #48 #71 5.8% 5.6% 646 240
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #48 #64 5.5% 10.1% 2.4k 683
Energy #45 - 8.1% - 229 -
Engineering #56 #62 6.2% 7.2% 4.3k 2.7k
Environmental Science #62 #70 5.9% 8.6% 2.2k 1.1k
Health Professions #65 #63 5.9% 8.3% 882 479
Immunology and Microbiology #43 - 7.9% - 314 -
Materials Science #49 #56 5.4% 6.5% 691 622
Mathematics #53 #72 5.2% 5.7% 443 250
Medicine #54 #83 7.2% 7.3% 7.3k 2.9k
Neuroscience #53 #50 5.7% 7.9% 473 255
Nursing #43 - 6.6% - 217 -
Physics and Astronomy #44 #60 7.0% 6.3% 518 359
Psychology #52 #55 5.5% 8.6% 1.5k 850
Social Sciences #69 #77 5.5% 8.0% 5.8k 3.6k

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

Lithuania

▲ 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. Sustainability824▲ 1.45×121 topics
  2. Climate Change727◆ 1.15×118 topics
  3. Epidemiology724▼ 0.78×135 topics
  4. Education679▲ 1.70×124 topics
  5. Globalization673▲ 1.47×156 topics
  6. Sustainable Development616▲ 1.70×98 topics
  7. Environmental Impact523▲ 1.32×70 topics
  8. Human Rights478▲ 2.0×81 topics
  9. Renewable Energy472▲ 1.40×55 topics
  10. Innovation454▲ 1.89×74 topics
  11. Mental Health415▲ 1.25×46 topics
  12. Artificial Intelligence405▲ 1.22×63 topics
  13. Pedagogy400▲ 3.4×30 topics
  14. Higher Education392▲ 3.2×32 topics
  15. Leadership360▲ 3.2×35 topics
  16. Energy Efficiency334▲ 1.56×43 topics
  17. Environmental Management326▲ 3.5×19 topics
  18. Economic Growth325▲ 1.72×34 topics
  19. European Union302▲ 5.8×27 topics
  20. Identity292▲ 1.73×72 topics
  21. Literature263▲ 2.1×51 topics
  22. International Relations262▲ 4.7×28 topics
  23. Learning248▲ 3.6×14 topics
  24. Ethics247▲ 2.1×50 topics
  25. Professional Identity240▲ 12×5 topics
  26. Entrepreneurship232▲ 2.5×22 topics
  27. Digital Competence226▲ 11×3 topics
  28. Soviet Union217▲ 17×3 topics
  29. Feminist Research215▲ 165×1 topic
  30. Social Competence215▲ 165×1 topic
  31. European Integration209▲ 16×6 topics
  32. Eastern Europe202▲ 17×3 topics
  33. Diplomacy177▲ 8.2×8 topics
  34. Cold War168▲ 12×5 topics
  35. Postcolonial Theory156▲ 26×4 topics
  36. Australia155▲ 42×1 topic
  37. Rhetoric151▲ 6.4×6 topics
  38. Social Perception142▲ 15×5 topics
  39. Imagology132▲ 57×1 topic
  40. National Stereotypes132▲ 57×1 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?

Croatia has out-published Lithuania every year since 1980.

still counting5k10k15kCroatia10k in 2025Lithuania5,287 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 2025Lithuania0.090% 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%Lithuania10.0% in 2025Croatia7.0% 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.

Croatia 05 level0 Lithuania
  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 Lithuania?

Croatia publishes 1.9× as much research as Lithuania in 2022-now (38k against 20k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Croatia or Lithuania?

8.4% of Lithuania's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.5% for Croatia.

Is Croatia or Lithuania growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +6% against 2018-21 for Lithuania, and +2% for Croatia.

Which has more open access research, Croatia or Lithuania?

65% of Lithuania's research is free to read, against 61% of Croatia's.

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

Croatia holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Lithuania 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

Lithuania

  1. 1Vytautas Magnus University9.8% top 10% · 1.7k works
  2. 2Vilnius University7.0% top 10% · 5.1k works
  3. 3Kaunas University of Technology11.3% top 10% · 2.1k works
  4. 4Vilnius Gediminas Technical University9.2% top 10% · 2.1k works
  5. 5Mykolas Romeris University8.3% top 10% · 635 works
  6. 6Klaipėda University7.7% top 10% · 550 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

Lithuania

  1. 1 Morteza Ghobakhloo #2,585 worldwide 15k citations · 136 works
  2. 2 Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas #8,332 worldwide 56k citations · 838 works
  3. 3 Dalia Štreimikienė #21,194 worldwide 25k citations · 825 works
  4. 4 Jelena Čelutkienė #36,225 worldwide 49k citations · 275 works
  5. 5 Tomas Baležentis #51,809 worldwide 12k citations · 422 works