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Egypt vs Saudi Arabia

On research quality in 2022-now, Saudi Arabia ranks #14 in the world and Egypt #30, of 189 countries. Egypt stands higher in 3 of the 26 fields both publish in, Saudi Arabia in 23.

Egypt

World rank, 2022-now
#30
#39 all time
Works, 2022-now
169k
fractional
Top-10% rate
14.9%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
56%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Leadership and Management, Orthodontics, Oral Surgery.

Saudi Arabia

World rank, 2022-now
#14
#29 all time
Works, 2022-now
156k
fractional
Top-10% rate
23.4%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
58%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: General Dentistry, Orthodontics, Modeling and Simulation.

Who leads in each field?

Egypt stands higher in 3 of 26 fields, Saudi Arabia in 23. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Egypt 323 Saudi Arabia
  1. #23Agricultural and Biological Sciences#11
  2. #63Arts and Humanities#39
  3. #24Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#16
  4. #52Business, Management and Accounting#9
  5. #24Chemical Engineering#8
  6. #3Chemistry#5
  7. #24Computer Science#5
  8. #25Decision Sciences#8
  9. #25Dentistry#9
  10. #23Earth and Planetary Sciences#14
  11. #68Economics, Econometrics and Finance#16
  12. #9Energy#4
  13. #16Engineering#8
  14. #30Environmental Science#13
  15. #40Health Professions#11
  16. #31Immunology and Microbiology#27
  17. #10Materials Science#5
  18. #14Mathematics#4
  19. #39Medicine#24
  20. #35Neuroscience#15
  21. #34Nursing#11
  22. #3Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#5
  23. #28Physics and Astronomy#21
  24. #52Psychology#19
  25. #63Social Sciences#29
  26. #21Veterinary-

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.

How has their output grown?

20k40k60kSaudi Arabia45k in 2025Egypt40k in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works per year. The latest, partial year is left off.

Which publishes more research, Egypt or Saudi Arabia?

Egypt publishes 1.1× as much research as Saudi Arabia in 2022-now (169k against 156k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Egypt or Saudi Arabia?

23.4% of Saudi Arabia's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 14.9% for Egypt.

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%.

Egypt

  1. 1Cairo University15.5% top 10% · 16k works
  2. 2National Research Centre20.4% top 10% · 5.9k works
  3. 3Mansoura University16.7% top 10% · 9.2k works
  4. 4Al-Azhar University14.0% top 10% · 7.9k works
  5. 5Kafrelsheikh University23.6% top 10% · 2.4k works
  6. 6Damietta University18.5% top 10% · 1.8k works

Saudi Arabia

  1. 1King Saud University25.0% top 10% · 19k works
  2. 2King Khalid University27.1% top 10% · 7.5k works
  3. 3Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University29.3% top 10% · 5.3k works
  4. 4King Abdullah University of Science and Technology28.3% top 10% · 5.7k works
  5. 5King Faisal University28.5% top 10% · 4.8k works
  6. 6King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals26.2% top 10% · 7.2k 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, 16.5% (why not 10%): 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.

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Which is stronger in research, Egypt or Saudi Arabia?

On research quality in 2022-now, Saudi Arabia ranks #14 in the world and Egypt #30, of 189 countries. Egypt stands higher in 3 of the 26 fields both publish in, Saudi Arabia in 23.

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