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Ethiopia vs Malaysia

On research quality in 2022-now, Malaysia ranks #34 in the world and Ethiopia #36, of 189 countries. Ethiopia stands higher in 6 of the 25 fields both publish in, Malaysia in 19.

Ethiopia

World rank, 2022-now
#36
#44 all time
Works, 2022-now
43k
fractional
Top-10% rate
23.4%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
80%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Agronomy and Crop Science, Soil Science, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.

Malaysia

World rank, 2022-now
#34
#34 all time
Works, 2022-now
176k
fractional
Top-10% rate
15.8%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
56%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Accounting, Information Systems and Management, Marketing.

Who leads in each field?

Ethiopia stands higher in 6 of 25 fields, Malaysia in 19. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Ethiopia 619 Malaysia
  1. #25Agricultural and Biological Sciences#50
  2. #83Arts and Humanities#30
  3. #42Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#41
  4. #53Business, Management and Accounting#18
  5. -Chemical Engineering#23
  6. #39Chemistry#30
  7. #59Computer Science#21
  8. #60Decision Sciences#18
  9. -Dentistry#42
  10. #39Earth and Planetary Sciences#38
  11. #35Economics, Econometrics and Finance#27
  12. #62Energy#22
  13. #43Engineering#24
  14. #28Environmental Science#34
  15. #14Health Professions#33
  16. #21Immunology and Microbiology#38
  17. #43Materials Science#32
  18. #61Mathematics#49
  19. #29Medicine#44
  20. -Neuroscience#38
  21. #6Nursing#48
  22. -Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#15
  23. #73Physics and Astronomy#50
  24. #35Psychology#31
  25. #40Social Sciences#25

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?

20k40k60kMalaysia45k in 2025Ethiopia12k in 20251990200020102020

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

Which publishes more research, Ethiopia or Malaysia?

Malaysia publishes 4.0× as much research as Ethiopia in 2022-now (176k against 43k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Ethiopia or Malaysia?

23.4% of Ethiopia's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 15.8% for Malaysia.

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%.

Ethiopia

  1. 1University of Gondar29.6% top 10% · 3k works
  2. 2Bahir Dar University26.8% top 10% · 3k works
  3. 3Addis Ababa University22.5% top 10% · 4.8k works
  4. 4Jimma University23.7% top 10% · 2.5k works
  5. 5Wollo University27.5% top 10% · 1.2k works
  6. 6Arba Minch University24.6% top 10% · 1.4k works

Malaysia

  1. 1National University of Malaysia19.7% top 10% · 13k works
  2. 2Universiti Sains Malaysia20.9% top 10% · 11k works
  3. 3University of Malaya20.2% top 10% · 11k works
  4. 4Universiti Putra Malaysia19.1% top 10% · 10k works
  5. 5University of Technology Malaysia16.4% top 10% · 9.8k works
  6. 6Monash University Malaysia27.3% top 10% · 2.1k 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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