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Cyprus vs Malta

On research quality in 2022-now, Cyprus ranks #48 in the world and Malta #100, of 189 countries. Cyprus stands higher in 19 of the 19 fields both publish in, Malta in 0.

Research profiles alike: 0.72very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured

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Cyprus

World rank, 2022-now
#48
#46 all time
Works, 2022-now
17k
fractional
Top-10% rate
13.6%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
51%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Space and Planetary Science, General Energy, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management.

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?

Cyprus leads on 8 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, citations per work, open access, international co-authorship and growth. Malta leads on none. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Cyprus 81 level0 Malta
  1. #48Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#100
  2. 1.09×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.79×
  3. 17kOutputfractional works, 2022-now4k
  4. 13.6%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited8.7%
  5. 17.5Citations per workall time, per fractional work12.7
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 51%Open accessof its works free to read, all time49%
  8. 38%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time30%
  9. +31%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?

Cyprus stands higher in 19 of 19 fields, Malta in 0. Cyprus leads most in Social Sciences (#50 against #116). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Cyprus 190 Malta
  1. #66Agricultural and Biological Sciences-
  2. #45Arts and Humanities#58
  3. #56Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-
  4. #41Business, Management and Accounting-
  5. #42Computer Science#85
  6. #42Decision Sciences-
  7. #40Earth and Planetary Sciences-
  8. #44Economics, Econometrics and Finance-
  9. #40Energy-
  10. #46Engineering#88
  11. #45Environmental Science-
  12. #58Health Professions-
  13. #63Materials Science-
  14. #43Mathematics-
  15. #60Medicine#103
  16. #43Neuroscience-
  17. #38Physics and Astronomy-
  18. #44Psychology#76
  19. #50Social 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 Cyprus rankMalta rank Cyprus top 10%Malta top 10% Cyprus worksMalta works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #66 - 14.4% - 463 -
Arts and Humanities #45 #58 14.8% 12.8% 717 234
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #56 - 11.2% - 554 -
Business, Management and Accounting #41 - 20.5% - 905 -
Computer Science #42 #85 12.6% 8.0% 1.6k 348
Decision Sciences #42 - 15.4% - 237 -
Earth and Planetary Sciences #40 - 11.8% - 229 -
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #44 - 17.0% - 687 -
Energy #40 - 15.7% - 267 -
Engineering #46 #88 12.1% 8.8% 2.2k 420
Environmental Science #45 - 13.2% - 853 -
Health Professions #58 - 14.1% - 446 -
Materials Science #63 - 10.4% - 241 -
Mathematics #43 - 18.1% - 328 -
Medicine #60 #103 12.1% 6.4% 2.3k 861
Neuroscience #43 - 11.2% - 226 -
Physics and Astronomy #38 - 14.8% - 461 -
Psychology #44 #76 11.8% 8.7% 830 232
Social Sciences #50 #116 13.8% 9.9% 2.7k 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.

Cyprus

▲ 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. Machine Learning902▲ 1.40×96 topics
  2. Deep Learning705◆ 1.05×85 topics
  3. Renewable Energy665▲ 2.4×53 topics
  4. Sustainability663▲ 1.40×115 topics
  5. Epidemiology595▼ 0.77×136 topics
  6. Climate Change563◆ 1.07×114 topics
  7. Globalization443▲ 1.16×140 topics
  8. Environmental Impact435▲ 1.31×63 topics
  9. Artificial Intelligence426▲ 1.54×61 topics
  10. Education419▲ 1.26×123 topics
  11. Economic Growth404▲ 2.5×34 topics
  12. Social Media370▲ 1.38×39 topics
  13. Mental Health364▲ 1.31×47 topics
  14. Healthcare353▲ 1.59×39 topics
  15. Energy Efficiency333▲ 1.86×42 topics
  16. Big Data309▲ 1.66×34 topics
  17. Supply Chain Management309▲ 1.77×24 topics
  18. COVID-19305▲ 1.21×32 topics
  19. Internet of Things294▲ 1.76×29 topics
  20. Educational Technology287▲ 1.25×46 topics
  21. Urbanization253▲ 3.2×14 topics
  22. Cultural Heritage243▲ 2.4×32 topics
  23. Consumer Behavior231▲ 1.91×19 topics
  24. Security227▲ 1.74×28 topics
  25. Energy Consumption208▲ 4.7×7 topics
  26. Panel Data Analysis195▲ 6.5×3 topics
  27. Financial Development194▲ 6.7×3 topics
  28. CO2 Emissions178▲ 5.1×4 topics
  29. Environmental Regulation171▲ 5.9×5 topics
  30. Kuznets Curve164▲ 7.8×1 topic
  31. Trade Openness164▲ 7.8×1 topic
  32. Monetary Policy155▲ 3.4×12 topics
  33. Smart Cities150▲ 2.9×8 topics
  34. European Union140▲ 3.2×24 topics
  35. Nonlinear Equations127▲ 5.1×6 topics
  36. Peacebuilding126▲ 9.5×6 topics
  37. Identity Construction115▲ 11×5 topics
  38. Mediation98▲ 21×4 topics
  39. Cyprus Conflict92▲ 132×1 topic
  40. National Identities92▲ 132×1 topic

Malta

▲ 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. Epidemiology204◆ 1.15×128 topics
  2. Globalization151▲ 1.72×97 topics
  3. Sustainability144▲ 1.32×79 topics
  4. Machine Learning136◆ 0.91×83 topics
  5. Deep Learning123▼ 0.80×73 topics
  6. Climate Change117◆ 0.96×96 topics
  7. Mental Health102▲ 1.59×41 topics
  8. Quality of Life100▲ 1.55×56 topics
  9. Education87◆ 1.13×81 topics
  10. Public Health80▲ 1.24×59 topics
  11. Artificial Intelligence79▲ 1.24×46 topics
  12. Renewable Energy79▲ 1.22×43 topics
  13. COVID-1970▲ 1.21×28 topics
  14. Healthcare70▲ 1.37×31 topics
  15. Risk Factors69▲ 1.41×36 topics
  16. Treatment68▲ 1.25×49 topics
  17. Cardiovascular Disease64▲ 1.25×38 topics
  18. Resilience64▲ 2.9×17 topics
  19. Big Data58▲ 1.35×27 topics
  20. Depression58▲ 1.46×25 topics
  21. Identity51▲ 1.59×46 topics
  22. Governance48▲ 3.3×14 topics
  23. Cultural Heritage48▲ 2.0×24 topics
  24. Vulnerability47▲ 4.6×7 topics
  25. Student Engagement46▲ 2.6×13 topics
  26. Ethics45▲ 2.0×39 topics
  27. Social Interaction42▲ 2.4×10 topics
  28. Prevention40▲ 2.1×15 topics
  29. Technology Integration35▲ 2.5×10 topics
  30. Reflective Practice34▲ 4.0×7 topics
  31. Mediterranean34▲ 8.4×6 topics
  32. Decolonization32▲ 8.9×5 topics
  33. European Union32▲ 3.2×17 topics
  34. Academic Achievement30▲ 4.0×10 topics
  35. Pacific30▲ 35×2 topics
  36. Islands29▲ 58×1 topic
  37. Small States29▲ 58×1 topic
  38. Holocene27▲ 5.3×3 topics
  39. Maritime Archaeology23▲ 28×1 topic
  40. 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?

Cyprus has out-published Malta every year since 1980.

still counting2k4k6kCyprus4,770 in 2025Malta1,053 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 counting0.050%0.10%Cyprus0.081% in 2025Malta0.018% 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%Cyprus14.1% in 2025Malta9.8% 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.

Cyprus 05 level0 Malta
  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, Cyprus or Malta?

Cyprus publishes 4.2× as much research as Malta in 2022-now (17k against 4k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Cyprus or Malta?

13.6% of Cyprus's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 8.7% for Malta.

Is Cyprus or Malta growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +31% against 2018-21 for Cyprus, and +11% for Malta.

Which has more open access research, Cyprus or Malta?

51% of Cyprus's research is free to read, against 49% of Malta's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Cyprus or Malta?

Cyprus 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%.

Cyprus

  1. 1University of Cyprus11.9% top 10% · 2.9k works
  2. 2University of Nicosia17.3% top 10% · 1.4k works
  3. 3Eastern Mediterranean University16.4% top 10% · 1.3k works
  4. 4Cyprus University of Technology14.3% top 10% · 1.2k works
  5. 5Cyprus International University18.4% top 10% · 1.1k works
  6. 6European University Cyprus16.6% top 10% · 835 works

Malta

  1. 1University of Malta9.1% top 10% · 3.1k works
  2. 2Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology6.7% top 10% · 277 works
  3. 3Primary HealthCare7.1% top 10% · 228 works
  4. 4Middlesex University8.5% top 10% · 131 works
  5. 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.

Cyprus

  1. 1 Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo #191 worldwide 23k citations · 354 works
  2. 2 Zahoor Ahmed #1,212 worldwide 14k citations · 154 works
  3. 3 Ali Övgün #2,778 worldwide 10k citations · 396 works
  4. 4 Osman M. Karatepe #3,538 worldwide 18k citations · 275 works
  5. 5 Michalinos Zembylas #7,077 worldwide 21k citations · 635 works

Malta

  1. 1 Mark Anthony Camilleri #68,033 worldwide 8.5k citations · 317 works
  2. 2 Miriam Gatt #75,716 worldwide 7k citations · 183 works
  3. 3 Mario V. Balzan #90,041 worldwide 4.2k citations · 91 works
  4. 4 Mark Mifsud #94,117 worldwide 3.4k citations · 56 works
  5. 5 Josette Camilleri #99,365 worldwide 13k citations · 232 works