Curaçao vs Puerto Rico
On research quality in 2022-now, Puerto Rico ranks #62 in the world and Curaçao #167, of 189 countries. Curaçao stands higher in 0 of the 10 fields both publish in, Puerto Rico in 10.
Research profiles alike: 0.73very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured
Compare other countries
Curaçao
- World rank, 2022-now
- #167
- #142 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 372
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 6.7%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 48%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Religious studies, Internal Medicine, Virology.
Puerto Rico
- World rank, 2022-now
- #62
- #64 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 7.4k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 7.8%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 44%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Microbiology, General Psychology, Horticulture.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Curaçao leads on 5 of 9 measures: citation excellence for its fields, citations per work, open access, international co-authorship and growth. Puerto Rico leads on 3 of 9 measures: research quality, output and top-10% rate. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.
- #167Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#62
- 0.89×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.71×
- 372Outputfractional works, 2022-now7.4k
- 6.7%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited7.8%
- 19.0Citations per workall time, per fractional work15.2
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 48%Open accessof its works free to read, all time44%
- 57%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time39%
- +72%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+3%
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?
Curaçao stands higher in 0 of 10 fields, Puerto Rico in 10. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#81
- -Arts and Humanities#62
- -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#41
- -Computer Science#67
- -Engineering#57
- -Environmental Science#63
- -Health Professions#49
- -Medicine#52
- -Psychology#53
- -Social Sciences#64
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 | Curaçao rank | Puerto Rico rank | Curaçao top 10% | Puerto Rico top 10% | Curaçao works | Puerto Rico works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | - | #81 | - | 7.2% | - | 314 |
| Arts and Humanities | - | #62 | - | 8.7% | - | 251 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | - | #41 | - | 9.1% | - | 634 |
| Computer Science | - | #67 | - | 5.7% | - | 294 |
| Engineering | - | #57 | - | 7.2% | - | 560 |
| Environmental Science | - | #63 | - | 6.7% | - | 361 |
| Health Professions | - | #49 | - | 10.5% | - | 256 |
| Medicine | - | #52 | - | 7.2% | - | 2.1k |
| Psychology | - | #53 | - | 5.4% | - | 318 |
| Social Sciences | - | #64 | - | 8.9% | - | 1k |
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.
Curaçao
- Quality of Service
- Barriers
- Quantitative Research
- Research Methods
- Healthcare Access
- Christian Education
- Child Nutrition
- Ocean Acidification
- Maternal Health
- Pathogenesis
- Guidelines
- Genetics
- Public Health Policy
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Qualitative Research
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Community Empowerment
- Public Health
- Inflammation
- Treatment
- Epidemiology
- Diagnosis
- Climate Change
- Quality of Life
- Management
- Risk Factors
- Patient Satisfaction
- Obesity
- Complications
- Health Education
- Surgical Management
- Non-Communicable Diseases
- Breastfeeding
- Youth Development
- Stunting
- Church Leadership
- Patient Experience
- Marine Ecosystems
- Organizational Behavior
- Nursing Performance
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology46▲ 2.8×110 topics
- Treatment20▲ 4.0×42 topics
- Diagnosis20▲ 5.0×34 topics
- Inflammation15▲ 1.67×56 topics
- Climate Change13◆ 1.10×29 topics
- Public Health12▲ 2.0×36 topics
- Quality of Life12▲ 1.91×40 topics
- Community Empowerment11▲ 3.7×8 topics
- Management10▲ 2.9×24 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease9▲ 1.96×30 topics
- Risk Factors9▲ 2.0×24 topics
- Qualitative Research9▲ 2.5×12 topics
- Patient Satisfaction9▲ 6.7×9 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome9▲ 2.5×19 topics
- Obesity8▲ 2.6×17 topics
- Public Health Policy8▲ 7.6×3 topics
- Complications8▲ 3.9×17 topics
- Genetics8▲ 2.7×16 topics
- Health Education8▲ 4.2×6 topics
- Guidelines8▲ 3.9×12 topics
- Surgical Management8▲ 4.4×18 topics
- Pathogenesis7▲ 3.5×19 topics
- Non-Communicable Diseases7▲ 6.0×4 topics
- Maternal Health7▲ 6.1×3 topics
- Breastfeeding6▲ 6.6×2 topics
- Ocean Acidification6▲ 20×3 topics
- Youth Development6▲ 16×2 topics
- Child Nutrition6▲ 7.9×1 topic
- Stunting6▲ 7.9×1 topic
- Christian Education6▲ 63×1 topic
- Church Leadership6▲ 63×1 topic
- Healthcare Access5▲ 4.6×4 topics
- Patient Experience5▲ 12×3 topics
- Research Methods5▲ 7.6×4 topics
- Marine Ecosystems5▲ 20×2 topics
- Quantitative Research5▲ 8.6×3 topics
- Organizational Behavior4▲ 7.0×2 topics
- Barriers4▲ 13×2 topics
- Nursing Performance4▲ 16×1 topic
- Quality of Service4▲ 10×1 topic
Puerto Rico
- Virtual Teaching
- Cancer Incidence
- Resilience
- Pedagogy
- Health Promotion
- Literature
- Teacher Training
- Metabolic Syndrome
- E-Learning
- Gender
- Healthcare
- Educational Technology
- Diagnosis
- Oxidative Stress
- Risk Factors
- Cancer
- Sustainability
- Public Health
- Inflammation
- Education
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Mental Health
- Globalization
- Quality of Life
- COVID-19
- Treatment
- Innovation
- Depression
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Identity
- Chemotherapy
- Immunotherapy
- Genetics
- Global Burden
- Distance Learning
- Latin America
- Colonialism
- Genetic Mutations
- Human Papillomavirus
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology612▲ 1.78×138 topics
- Education265▲ 1.78×109 topics
- Climate Change257◆ 1.09×104 topics
- Inflammation234▲ 1.27×83 topics
- Mental Health222▲ 1.79×45 topics
- Public Health220▲ 1.75×70 topics
- Globalization209▲ 1.23×131 topics
- Sustainability206◆ 0.98×103 topics
- Quality of Life203▲ 1.63×60 topics
- Cancer185▲ 1.59×57 topics
- COVID-19172▲ 1.54×31 topics
- Risk Factors166▲ 1.74×37 topics
- Treatment161▲ 1.53×52 topics
- Oxidative Stress158◆ 1.11×62 topics
- Innovation142▲ 1.59×58 topics
- Diagnosis142▲ 1.76×41 topics
- Depression142▲ 1.86×26 topics
- Educational Technology130▲ 1.28×40 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease119▲ 1.20×38 topics
- Healthcare118▲ 1.20×35 topics
- Identity117▲ 1.87×60 topics
- Gender110▲ 2.4×43 topics
- Chemotherapy110▲ 1.80×25 topics
- E-Learning110▲ 1.32×23 topics
- Immunotherapy110▲ 1.76×19 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome105▲ 1.50×24 topics
- Genetics105▲ 1.72×27 topics
- Teacher Training95▲ 1.79×23 topics
- Global Burden94▲ 1.99×12 topics
- Literature91▲ 1.93×43 topics
- Distance Learning86▲ 2.9×12 topics
- Health Promotion84▲ 3.1×17 topics
- Latin America84▲ 5.1×22 topics
- Pedagogy84▲ 1.93×25 topics
- Colonialism83▲ 2.0×40 topics
- Resilience83▲ 1.95×17 topics
- Genetic Mutations82▲ 2.2×23 topics
- Cancer Incidence63▲ 5.3×4 topics
- Human Papillomavirus51▲ 4.8×3 topics
- Virtual Teaching41▲ 8.8×1 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?
Puerto Rico has out-published Curaçao 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 1,0001
- #51Elite capacityrank among 204 countries#40
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, Curaçao or Puerto Rico?
Puerto Rico publishes 20.0× as much research as Curaçao in 2022-now (7.4k against 372 fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Curaçao or Puerto Rico?
7.8% of Puerto Rico's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.7% for Curaçao.
Is Curaçao or Puerto Rico growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +72% against 2018-21 for Curaçao, and +3% for Puerto Rico.
Which has more open access research, Curaçao or Puerto Rico?
48% of Curaçao's research is free to read, against 44% of Puerto Rico's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Curaçao or Puerto Rico?
Curaçao holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Puerto Rico 0; in the top 1,000 it is 0 against 1.
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%.
Curaçao
- 1University of Curaçao6.1% top 10% · 101 works
- 2St. Elisabeth Hospital6.1% top 10% · 82 works
- 3St. Martinus University1.9% top 10% · 76 works
- 4Avalon University School of Medicine10.1% top 10% · 76 works
Puerto Rico
- 1National University College17.6% top 10% · 927 works
- 2Universidad Metropolitana15.8% top 10% · 332 works
- 3Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico7.6% top 10% · 712 works
- 4University of Puerto Rico System7.3% top 10% · 1k works
- 5University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras5.9% top 10% · 577 works
- 6Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico3.7% top 10% · 338 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.
Curaçao
- 1 Mark J. A. Vermeij #98,219 worldwide 8.3k citations · 186 works
- 2 Kristen L. Marhaver #440,819 worldwide 1.6k citations · 50 works
- 3 Valérie F. Chamberland #459,691 worldwide 903 citations · 30 works
- 4 Kelly R. W. Latijnhouwers #660,279 worldwide 588 citations · 24 works
- 5 Ashley John Duits #1,493,604 worldwide 3.8k citations · 134 works
Puerto Rico
- 1 Justin Paul #306 worldwide 36k citations · 297 works
- 2 T. Mitchell Aide #13,830 worldwide 21k citations · 184 works
- 3 Jess K. Zimmerman #21,938 worldwide 19k citations · 279 works
- 4 Zhongfang Chen #23,734 worldwide 43k citations · 462 works
- 5 Gregory J. Quirk #27,119 worldwide 32k citations · 173 works