Cuba vs Malta
On research quality in 2022-now, Malta ranks #100 in the world and Cuba #103, of 189 countries. Cuba stands higher in 8 of the 12 fields both publish in, Malta in 4.
Research profiles alike: 0.49similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured
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Cuba
- World rank, 2022-now
- #103
- #102 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 9.1k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 5.7%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 41%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Life-span and Life-course Studies, General Social Sciences, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology.
Malta
- World rank, 2022-now
- #100
- #93 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 4k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 8.7%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 49%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Space and Planetary Science, Medical Terminology, Archeology.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Malta leads on 7 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work, open access, international co-authorship and growth. Cuba leads on 1 of 9 measures: output. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.
- #103Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#100
- 0.55×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.79×
- 9.1kOutputfractional works, 2022-now4k
- 5.7%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited8.7%
- 3.7Citations per workall time, per fractional work12.7
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 41%Open accessof its works free to read, all time49%
- 19%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time30%
- -64%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+11%
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?
Cuba stands higher in 8 of 12 fields, Malta in 4. Cuba leads most in Social Sciences (#91 against #116); Malta leads most in Arts and Humanities (#58 against #86). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- #90Agricultural and Biological Sciences-
- #86Arts and Humanities#58
- #89Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-
- #97Business, Management and Accounting-
- #106Computer Science#85
- #95Economics, Econometrics and Finance-
- #107Engineering#88
- #93Environmental Science-
- #66Health Professions-
- #123Medicine#103
- #61Psychology#76
- #91Social Sciences#116
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 | Cuba rank | Malta rank | Cuba top 10% | Malta top 10% | Cuba works | Malta works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | #90 | - | 4.9% | - | 756 | - |
| Arts and Humanities | #86 | #58 | 6.0% | 12.8% | 255 | 234 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | #89 | - | 4.6% | - | 285 | - |
| Business, Management and Accounting | #97 | - | 4.0% | - | 447 | - |
| Computer Science | #106 | #85 | 4.8% | 8.0% | 572 | 348 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | #95 | - | 6.3% | - | 260 | - |
| Engineering | #107 | #88 | 4.5% | 8.8% | 433 | 420 |
| Environmental Science | #93 | - | 4.0% | - | 515 | - |
| Health Professions | #66 | - | 14.3% | - | 630 | - |
| Medicine | #123 | #103 | 3.8% | 6.4% | 1.7k | 861 |
| Psychology | #61 | #76 | 6.3% | 8.7% | 327 | 232 |
| Social Sciences | #91 | #116 | 6.7% | 9.9% | 2.1k | 632 |
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.
Cuba
- Healthcare Quality
- Community Health
- Productivity Indicators
- Financial Analysis
- Communication
- Rural Development
- Innovation Ecosystems
- Distance Learning
- Small and Medium Enterprises
- Gender
- Social Determinants of Health
- Digital Marketing
- Pedagogy
- Teacher Training
- Quality of Life
- Sustainable Development
- Competitiveness
- Climate Change
- Sustainability
- Epidemiology
- Education
- Public Health
- Innovation
- Globalization
- Health Promotion
- Educational Technology
- Knowledge Management
- E-Learning
- Risk Assessment
- Health Policy
- Medical Education
- Nutrition
- Social Responsibility
- Inclusive Education
- Decision Making
- Organizational Performance
- Financial Reporting
- Economic Impact Evaluation
- Healthcare Access
- Global Health
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Education916▲ 5.2×89 topics
- Epidemiology688▲ 1.67×135 topics
- Public Health687▲ 4.6×73 topics
- Sustainability596▲ 2.4×98 topics
- Innovation502▲ 4.7×55 topics
- Climate Change468▲ 1.67×106 topics
- Globalization466▲ 2.3×106 topics
- Competitiveness427▲ 52×7 topics
- Health Promotion418▲ 13×17 topics
- Sustainable Development409▲ 2.5×73 topics
- Educational Technology402▲ 3.3×39 topics
- Quality of Life388▲ 2.6×59 topics
- Knowledge Management341▲ 5.9×28 topics
- Teacher Training336▲ 5.3×23 topics
- E-Learning325▲ 3.3×21 topics
- Pedagogy310▲ 6.0×23 topics
- Risk Assessment296▲ 4.3×24 topics
- Digital Marketing281▲ 7.0×5 topics
- Health Policy272▲ 17×7 topics
- Social Determinants of Health271▲ 12×8 topics
- Medical Education264▲ 9.5×14 topics
- Gender257▲ 4.6×31 topics
- Nutrition251▲ 5.5×18 topics
- Small and Medium Enterprises250▲ 14×9 topics
- Social Responsibility250▲ 10×9 topics
- Distance Learning247▲ 6.9×12 topics
- Inclusive Education244▲ 6.5×16 topics
- Innovation Ecosystems243▲ 23×3 topics
- Decision Making240▲ 8.0×13 topics
- Rural Development233▲ 6.5×17 topics
- Organizational Performance228▲ 8.5×11 topics
- Communication226▲ 6.9×18 topics
- Financial Reporting224▲ 18×7 topics
- Financial Analysis222▲ 19×3 topics
- Economic Impact Evaluation221▲ 120×1 topic
- Productivity Indicators221▲ 120×1 topic
- Healthcare Access220▲ 7.8×12 topics
- Community Health216▲ 13×7 topics
- Global Health216▲ 13×9 topics
- Healthcare Quality201▲ 19×5 topics
Malta
- Sea-Level Change
- Holocene
- Islands
- Academic Achievement
- Decolonization
- Reflective Practice
- Prevention
- Ethics
- Vulnerability
- Governance
- Depression
- Resilience
- Treatment
- Healthcare
- Renewable Energy
- Public Health
- Quality of Life
- Climate Change
- Machine Learning
- Globalization
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Deep Learning
- Mental Health
- Education
- Artificial Intelligence
- COVID-19
- Risk Factors
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Big Data
- Identity
- Cultural Heritage
- Student Engagement
- Social Interaction
- Technology Integration
- Mediterranean
- European Union
- Pacific
- Small States
- Maritime Archaeology
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology204◆ 1.15×128 topics
- Globalization151▲ 1.72×97 topics
- Sustainability144▲ 1.32×79 topics
- Machine Learning136◆ 0.91×83 topics
- Deep Learning123▼ 0.80×73 topics
- Climate Change117◆ 0.96×96 topics
- Mental Health102▲ 1.59×41 topics
- Quality of Life100▲ 1.55×56 topics
- Education87◆ 1.13×81 topics
- Public Health80▲ 1.24×59 topics
- Artificial Intelligence79▲ 1.24×46 topics
- Renewable Energy79▲ 1.22×43 topics
- COVID-1970▲ 1.21×28 topics
- Healthcare70▲ 1.37×31 topics
- Risk Factors69▲ 1.41×36 topics
- Treatment68▲ 1.25×49 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease64▲ 1.25×38 topics
- Resilience64▲ 2.9×17 topics
- Big Data58▲ 1.35×27 topics
- Depression58▲ 1.46×25 topics
- Identity51▲ 1.59×46 topics
- Governance48▲ 3.3×14 topics
- Cultural Heritage48▲ 2.0×24 topics
- Vulnerability47▲ 4.6×7 topics
- Student Engagement46▲ 2.6×13 topics
- Ethics45▲ 2.0×39 topics
- Social Interaction42▲ 2.4×10 topics
- Prevention40▲ 2.1×15 topics
- Technology Integration35▲ 2.5×10 topics
- Reflective Practice34▲ 4.0×7 topics
- Mediterranean34▲ 8.4×6 topics
- Decolonization32▲ 8.9×5 topics
- European Union32▲ 3.2×17 topics
- Academic Achievement30▲ 4.0×10 topics
- Pacific30▲ 35×2 topics
- Islands29▲ 58×1 topic
- Small States29▲ 58×1 topic
- Holocene27▲ 5.3×3 topics
- Maritime Archaeology23▲ 28×1 topic
- Sea-Level Change23▲ 28×1 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?
Cuba has out-published Malta 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, Cuba or Malta?
Cuba publishes 2.3× as much research as Malta in 2022-now (9.1k against 4k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Cuba or Malta?
8.7% of Malta's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.7% for Cuba.
Is Cuba or Malta growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +11% against 2018-21 for Malta, and -64% for Cuba.
Which has more open access research, Cuba or Malta?
49% of Malta's research is free to read, against 41% of Cuba's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Cuba or Malta?
Cuba holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Malta 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%.
Cuba
- 1University of Havana4.3% top 10% · 1.1k works
- 2Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de las Villas (UCLV)4.8% top 10% · 619 works
- 3University of Holguín4.9% top 10% · 478 works
- 4Instituto de Información Científica y Tecnológica31.1% top 10% · 315 works
- 5Universidad de Oriente4.1% top 10% · 374 works
- 6Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de la Habana6.3% top 10% · 452 works
Malta
- 1University of Malta9.1% top 10% · 3.1k works
- 2Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology6.7% top 10% · 277 works
- 3Primary HealthCare7.1% top 10% · 228 works
- 4Middlesex University8.5% top 10% · 131 works
- 5Heritage Malta7.7% top 10% · 72 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.
Cuba
- 1 Arian Abrahantes Quintana #137,417 worldwide 8k citations · 36 works
- 2 Juan J. Llibre Rodríguez #235,268 worldwide 9k citations · 236 works
- 3 Arturo Escobar #293,267 worldwide 29k citations · 386 works
- 4 Esteban Rodríguez Torres #315,225 worldwide 361 citations · 40 works
- 5 Pedro Antonio Valdes-Sosa #364,245 worldwide 15k citations · 440 works
Malta
- 1 Mark Anthony Camilleri #68,033 worldwide 8.5k citations · 317 works
- 2 Miriam Gatt #75,716 worldwide 7k citations · 183 works
- 3 Mario V. Balzan #90,041 worldwide 4.2k citations · 91 works
- 4 Mark Mifsud #94,117 worldwide 3.4k citations · 56 works
- 5 Josette Camilleri #99,365 worldwide 13k citations · 232 works