Fiji vs Malta
On research quality in 2022-now, Malta ranks #100 in the world and Fiji #102, of 189 countries. Fiji stands higher in 1 of the 6 fields both publish in, Malta in 5.
Research profiles alike: 0.38somewhat alike shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured
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Fiji
- World rank, 2022-now
- #102
- #116 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 1.6k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 10.1%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 47%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Public Administration, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management, Demography.
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?
Fiji leads on 5 of 9 measures: excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work, international co-authorship and growth. Malta leads on 3 of 9 measures: research quality, output and open access. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.
- #102Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#100
- 0.89×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.79×
- 1.6kOutputfractional works, 2022-now4k
- 10.1%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited8.7%
- 14.6Citations per workall time, per fractional work12.7
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 47%Open accessof its works free to read, all time49%
- 42%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time30%
- +16%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?
Fiji stands higher in 1 of 6 fields, Malta in 5. Malta leads most in Medicine (#103 against #105); Fiji leads most in Social Sciences (#95 against #116). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- -Arts and Humanities#58
- -Computer Science#85
- -Engineering#88
- #105Medicine#103
- -Psychology#76
- #95Social 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 | Fiji rank | Malta rank | Fiji top 10% | Malta top 10% | Fiji works | Malta works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities | - | #58 | - | 12.8% | - | 234 |
| Computer Science | - | #85 | - | 8.0% | - | 348 |
| Engineering | - | #88 | - | 8.8% | - | 420 |
| Medicine | #105 | #103 | 5.4% | 6.4% | 238 | 861 |
| Psychology | - | #76 | - | 8.7% | - | 232 |
| Social Sciences | #95 | #116 | 12.2% | 9.9% | 327 | 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.
Fiji
- Stunting
- Path Planning
- Breastfeeding
- Environmental Refugees
- Resettlement
- Genetic Diversity
- Sea-Level Rise
- Agriculture
- Food Security
- Adaptation
- Community Empowerment
- COVID-19
- Islands
- Public Health
- Decolonization
- Governance
- Resilience
- Environmental Impact
- Globalization
- Climate Change
- Sustainability
- Vulnerability
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Economic Development
- Deep Learning
- Renewable Energy
- Pacific
- Small States
- Economic Growth
- Child Development
- Non-Communicable Diseases
- Health Education
- Migration
- Global Warming
- COVID-19 Impact
- Maternal Health
- Natural Disasters
- Technology Integration
- Child Nutrition
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Sustainability123▲ 2.8×62 topics
- Climate Change120▲ 2.4×83 topics
- Vulnerability92▲ 22×7 topics
- Globalization90▲ 2.5×51 topics
- Epidemiology74◆ 1.02×109 topics
- Environmental Impact71▲ 2.3×44 topics
- Machine Learning69◆ 1.14×64 topics
- Resilience68▲ 7.5×14 topics
- Economic Development64▲ 4.4×22 topics
- Governance55▲ 9.2×11 topics
- Deep Learning55◆ 0.87×57 topics
- Decolonization51▲ 34×5 topics
- Renewable Energy49▲ 1.84×31 topics
- Public Health48▲ 1.81×47 topics
- Pacific47▲ 135×2 topics
- Islands46▲ 225×1 topic
- Small States46▲ 225×1 topic
- COVID-1936▲ 1.50×22 topics
- Economic Growth33▲ 2.2×20 topics
- Community Empowerment31▲ 2.4×11 topics
- Child Development31▲ 4.1×7 topics
- Adaptation30▲ 5.5×10 topics
- Non-Communicable Diseases28▲ 5.7×5 topics
- Food Security28▲ 2.8×18 topics
- Health Education28▲ 3.5×7 topics
- Agriculture26▲ 3.7×9 topics
- Migration25▲ 4.0×7 topics
- Sea-Level Rise25▲ 12×5 topics
- Global Warming25▲ 3.2×11 topics
- Genetic Diversity24▲ 3.1×19 topics
- COVID-19 Impact23▲ 7.4×6 topics
- Resettlement22▲ 14×3 topics
- Maternal Health21▲ 4.5×4 topics
- Environmental Refugees21▲ 55×1 topic
- Natural Disasters21▲ 55×1 topic
- Breastfeeding21▲ 5.0×2 topics
- Technology Integration21▲ 3.6×8 topics
- Path Planning18▲ 7.8×3 topics
- Child Nutrition17▲ 5.1×1 topic
- Stunting17▲ 5.1×1 topic
Malta
- Sea-Level Change
- Holocene
- Islands
- Academic Achievement
- Decolonization
- Reflective Practice
- Prevention
- Ethics
- Vulnerability
- Governance
- Depression
- Resilience
- Treatment
- Healthcare
- Renewable Energy
- Public Health
- Quality of Life
- Climate Change
- Machine Learning
- Globalization
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Deep Learning
- Mental Health
- Education
- Artificial Intelligence
- COVID-19
- Risk Factors
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Big Data
- Identity
- Cultural Heritage
- Student Engagement
- Social Interaction
- Technology Integration
- Mediterranean
- European Union
- Pacific
- Small States
- Maritime Archaeology
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology204◆ 1.15×128 topics
- Globalization151▲ 1.72×97 topics
- Sustainability144▲ 1.32×79 topics
- Machine Learning136◆ 0.91×83 topics
- Deep Learning123▼ 0.80×73 topics
- Climate Change117◆ 0.96×96 topics
- Mental Health102▲ 1.59×41 topics
- Quality of Life100▲ 1.55×56 topics
- Education87◆ 1.13×81 topics
- Public Health80▲ 1.24×59 topics
- Artificial Intelligence79▲ 1.24×46 topics
- Renewable Energy79▲ 1.22×43 topics
- COVID-1970▲ 1.21×28 topics
- Healthcare70▲ 1.37×31 topics
- Risk Factors69▲ 1.41×36 topics
- Treatment68▲ 1.25×49 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease64▲ 1.25×38 topics
- Resilience64▲ 2.9×17 topics
- Big Data58▲ 1.35×27 topics
- Depression58▲ 1.46×25 topics
- Identity51▲ 1.59×46 topics
- Governance48▲ 3.3×14 topics
- Cultural Heritage48▲ 2.0×24 topics
- Vulnerability47▲ 4.6×7 topics
- Student Engagement46▲ 2.6×13 topics
- Ethics45▲ 2.0×39 topics
- Social Interaction42▲ 2.4×10 topics
- Prevention40▲ 2.1×15 topics
- Technology Integration35▲ 2.5×10 topics
- Reflective Practice34▲ 4.0×7 topics
- Mediterranean34▲ 8.4×6 topics
- Decolonization32▲ 8.9×5 topics
- European Union32▲ 3.2×17 topics
- Academic Achievement30▲ 4.0×10 topics
- Pacific30▲ 35×2 topics
- Islands29▲ 58×1 topic
- Small States29▲ 58×1 topic
- Holocene27▲ 5.3×3 topics
- Maritime Archaeology23▲ 28×1 topic
- 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?
Malta has out-published Fiji every year since 1989, when it overtook it.
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 1,0000
- #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, Fiji or Malta?
Malta publishes 2.4× as much research as Fiji in 2022-now (4k against 1.6k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Fiji or Malta?
10.1% of Fiji's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 8.7% for Malta.
Is Fiji or Malta growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +16% against 2018-21 for Fiji, and +11% for Malta.
Which has more open access research, Fiji or Malta?
49% of Malta's research is free to read, against 47% of Fiji's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Fiji or Malta?
Fiji 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%.
Fiji
- 1University of the South Pacific12.2% top 10% · 623 works
- 2Fiji National University10.5% top 10% · 424 works
- 3Ministry Of Health5.0% top 10% · 313 works
- 4University of Fiji8.6% top 10% · 135 works
- 5Ministry of Agriculture11.0% top 10% · 111 works
Malta
- 1University of Malta9.1% top 10% · 3.1k works
- 2Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology6.7% top 10% · 277 works
- 3Primary HealthCare7.1% top 10% · 228 works
- 4Middlesex University8.5% top 10% · 131 works
- 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.
Fiji
- 1 Sangeeta Mangubhai #35,741 worldwide 6.3k citations · 189 works
- 2 Stacy D. Jupiter #71,945 worldwide 9.3k citations · 212 works
- 3 Shavneet Sharma #82,714 worldwide 2.3k citations · 79 works
- 4 Ramendra Prasad #86,233 worldwide 3.5k citations · 63 works
- 5 Abirami Ramu Ganesan #172,746 worldwide 3.1k citations · 59 works
Malta
- 1 Mark Anthony Camilleri #68,033 worldwide 8.5k citations · 317 works
- 2 Miriam Gatt #75,716 worldwide 7k citations · 183 works
- 3 Mario V. Balzan #90,041 worldwide 4.2k citations · 91 works
- 4 Mark Mifsud #94,117 worldwide 3.4k citations · 56 works
- 5 Josette Camilleri #99,365 worldwide 13k citations · 232 works