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Eritrea vs Guinea

On research quality in 2022-now, Eritrea ranks #174 in the world and Guinea #185, of 189 countries. Eritrea stands higher in 0 of the 1 fields both publish in, Guinea in 1.

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Eritrea

World rank, 2022-now
#174
#175 all time
Works, 2022-now
213
fractional
Top-10% rate
8.2%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
73%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Family Practice, Toxicology.

Guinea

World rank, 2022-now
#185
#178 all time
Works, 2022-now
937
fractional
Top-10% rate
3.0%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
72%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Virology, Parasitology, Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Eritrea leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, top-10% rate and citations per work. Guinea leads on 3 of 9 measures: output, international co-authorship and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100 and open access.

Eritrea 42 level3 Guinea
  1. #174Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#185
  2. 1.01×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.55×
  3. 213Outputfractional works, 2022-now937
  4. 8.2%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited3.0%
  5. 13.0Citations per workall time, per fractional work5.2
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 73%Open accessof its works free to read, all time72%
  8. 34%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time38%
  9. -22%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+59%

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?

Eritrea stands higher in 0 of 1 fields, Guinea in 1. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Eritrea 01 Guinea
  1. -Medicine#134

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 Eritrea rankGuinea rank Eritrea top 10%Guinea top 10% Eritrea worksGuinea works
Medicine - #134 - 2.0% - 549

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.

Eritrea

▲ 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. Epidemiology19▲ 2.0×58 topics
  2. Climate Change9▲ 1.34×25 topics
  3. Public Health7▲ 2.1×18 topics
  4. Diagnosis7▲ 3.3×16 topics
  5. Conflict7▲ 19×5 topics
  6. Environmental Impact7▲ 1.75×20 topics
  7. Maternal Mortality6▲ 12×5 topics
  8. Religion6▲ 5.9×5 topics
  9. History6▲ 3.8×5 topics
  10. Child Development6▲ 6.2×4 topics
  11. Treatment6▲ 2.1×17 topics
  12. Immune Response6▲ 4.3×11 topics
  13. Culture6▲ 4.7×4 topics
  14. COVID-195▲ 1.74×15 topics
  15. Drug Resistance5▲ 7.8×6 topics
  16. Politics5▲ 8.6×2 topics
  17. Society5▲ 12×2 topics
  18. Human Rights5▲ 2.2×11 topics
  19. Eritrea5▲ 159×1 topic
  20. Ethiopia5▲ 159×1 topic
  21. Migration5▲ 6.3×2 topics
  22. Antiretroviral Therapy5▲ 12×6 topics
  23. Global Governance4▲ 7.9×8 topics
  24. Vaccine4▲ 4.7×10 topics
  25. Health Inequalities4▲ 15×2 topics
  26. Poverty Reduction4▲ 13×3 topics
  27. Child Mortality4▲ 23×1 topic
  28. Community Health Workers4▲ 19×2 topics
  29. Health Systems4▲ 23×1 topic
  30. Maternal and Child Undernutrition4▲ 20×1 topic
  31. Water Sanitation Hygiene4▲ 20×1 topic
  32. Insulin Resistance4▲ 3.5×8 topics
  33. Infectious Diseases4▲ 4.5×7 topics
  34. Sustainability Assessment3▲ 9.4×2 topics
  35. HIV Infection3▲ 12×3 topics
  36. Infertility3▲ 8.0×3 topics
  37. Gender Inequality3▲ 8.1×4 topics
  38. Global Health3▲ 7.2×2 topics
  39. Security Council2▲ 21×2 topics
  40. Water Scarcity2▲ 13×2 topics

Guinea

▲ 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. Epidemiology192▲ 4.3×115 topics
  2. Diagnosis59▲ 5.7×34 topics
  3. Treatment55▲ 4.1×41 topics
  4. Immune Response52▲ 8.2×17 topics
  5. Public Health50▲ 3.1×42 topics
  6. Vaccine46▲ 10×11 topics
  7. Risk Factors46▲ 3.7×32 topics
  8. Maternal Mortality43▲ 17×5 topics
  9. Pathogenesis41▲ 7.3×20 topics
  10. Global Burden38▲ 6.2×12 topics
  11. Inflammation35▲ 1.49×41 topics
  12. Complications34▲ 6.1×15 topics
  13. Cardiovascular Disease30▲ 2.3×26 topics
  14. Health Inequalities30▲ 22×2 topics
  15. Community Health Workers28▲ 29×2 topics
  16. Management28▲ 3.1×27 topics
  17. Child Mortality28▲ 35×1 topic
  18. Health Systems28▲ 35×1 topic
  19. Genetic Diversity27▲ 5.6×12 topics
  20. Smallholder Farmers26▲ 11×4 topics
  21. Antiretroviral Therapy25▲ 14×6 topics
  22. Surgery22▲ 5.7×9 topics
  23. Drug Resistance21▲ 6.7×7 topics
  24. Mortality21▲ 3.4×12 topics
  25. Vaccine Development21▲ 7.5×10 topics
  26. Surgical Management21▲ 4.6×17 topics
  27. Guidelines21▲ 4.0×12 topics
  28. Clinical Practice Guidelines20▲ 3.2×13 topics
  29. Adaptation20▲ 5.9×7 topics
  30. Livestock Farming16▲ 25×3 topics
  31. Agricultural Development16▲ 9.6×2 topics
  32. Agroecology16▲ 10×2 topics
  33. Diversity16▲ 8.3×2 topics
  34. Multifunctionality16▲ 31×1 topic
  35. Work Organization16▲ 37×1 topic
  36. Transmission15▲ 25×3 topics
  37. Children15▲ 5.9×7 topics
  38. Prenatal Diagnosis13▲ 8.3×7 topics
  39. HIV13▲ 14×4 topics
  40. Outbreak12▲ 29×2 topics

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?

Guinea has out-published Eritrea every year since 2011, when it overtook it.

still counting100200300Guinea265 in 2025Eritrea45 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 counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Guinea0.0045% in 2025Eritrea0.00077% 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 counting10%20%30%Eritrea12.3% in 2025Guinea4.0% in 202520102020

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.

Eritrea 05 level0 Guinea
  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, Eritrea or Guinea?

Guinea publishes 4.4× as much research as Eritrea in 2022-now (937 against 213 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Eritrea or Guinea?

8.2% of Eritrea's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 3.0% for Guinea.

Is Eritrea or Guinea growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +59% against 2018-21 for Guinea, and -22% for Eritrea.

Which has more open access research, Eritrea or Guinea?

73% of Eritrea's research is free to read, against 72% of Guinea's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Eritrea or Guinea?

Eritrea holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Guinea 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%.

Eritrea

  1. 1University of Asmara8.2% top 10% · 213 works

Guinea

  1. 1Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry1.7% top 10% · 337 works
  2. 2Institut de Recherche Agronomique de Guinée5.8% top 10% · 99 works
  3. 3Ignace Deen Hospital0.4% top 10% · 155 works
  4. 4Donka Hospital0.5% top 10% · 129 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.

Eritrea

  1. 1 Selam Mihreteab #1,183,860 worldwide 1.1k citations · 28 works
  2. 2 Ghebrebrhan Ogubazghi #1,338,523 worldwide 1.3k citations · 65 works
  3. 3 Eyasu Habte Tesfamariam #1,384,050 worldwide 286 citations · 20 works
  4. 4 Araia Berhane #1,422,903 worldwide 896 citations · 32 works
  5. 5 Meron Mehari Kifle #1,474,057 worldwide 804 citations · 23 works

Guinea

  1. 1 Lamine Koivogui #185,777 worldwide 7.5k citations · 72 works
  2. 2 N’Faly Magassouba #233,847 worldwide 4.4k citations · 33 works
  3. 3 Boubacar Diallo #682,861 worldwide 6k citations · 168 works
  4. 4 Abdoul Habib Béavogui #695,505 worldwide 3k citations · 156 works
  5. 5 Moumié Barry #739,870 worldwide 1.1k citations · 21 works