Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Compare · Countries

Fiji vs Nepal

On research quality in 2022-now, Fiji ranks #102 in the world and Nepal #109, of 189 countries. Fiji stands higher in 2 of the 21 fields both publish in, Nepal in 19.

Research profiles alike: 0.83very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured

Compare other countries
vs

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.

Nepal

World rank, 2022-now
#109
#89 all time
Works, 2022-now
33k
fractional
Top-10% rate
4.8%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
76%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Drug Discovery, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, General Dentistry.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Fiji leads on 5 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work and international co-authorship. Nepal leads on 3 of 9 measures: output, open access and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Fiji 51 level3 Nepal
  1. #102Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#109
  2. 0.89×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.42×
  3. 1.6kOutputfractional works, 2022-now33k
  4. 10.1%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited4.8%
  5. 14.6Citations per workall time, per fractional work7.2
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 47%Open accessof its works free to read, all time76%
  8. 42%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time25%
  9. +16%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+54%

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 2 of 21 fields, Nepal in 19. Fiji leads most in Social Sciences (#95 against #124). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

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 rankNepal rank Fiji top 10%Nepal top 10% Fiji worksNepal works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences - #89 - 5.5% - 2.8k
Arts and Humanities - #76 - 6.8% - 990
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - #82 - 4.9% - 1k
Business, Management and Accounting - #103 - 4.8% - 1.4k
Chemistry - #54 - 9.4% - 245
Computer Science - #113 - 5.0% - 2k
Decision Sciences - #62 - 4.9% - 458
Dentistry - #56 - 2.3% - 386
Earth and Planetary Sciences - #64 - 6.0% - 253
Economics, Econometrics and Finance - #93 - 3.9% - 1.2k
Engineering - #91 - 4.5% - 3.1k
Environmental Science - #84 - 5.1% - 1.9k
Health Professions - #84 - 6.7% - 1.2k
Immunology and Microbiology - #65 - 5.6% - 312
Materials Science - #66 - 6.2% - 494
Mathematics - #76 - 7.7% - 292
Medicine #105 #127 5.4% 3.4% 238 8.6k
Neuroscience - #68 - 5.0% - 233
Nursing - #62 - 5.0% - 276
Psychology - #88 - 5.3% - 1k
Social Sciences #95 #124 12.2% 6.1% 327 4k

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

▲ 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. Sustainability123▲ 2.8×62 topics
  2. Climate Change120▲ 2.4×83 topics
  3. Vulnerability92▲ 22×7 topics
  4. Globalization90▲ 2.5×51 topics
  5. Epidemiology74◆ 1.02×109 topics
  6. Environmental Impact71▲ 2.3×44 topics
  7. Machine Learning69◆ 1.14×64 topics
  8. Resilience68▲ 7.5×14 topics
  9. Economic Development64▲ 4.4×22 topics
  10. Governance55▲ 9.2×11 topics
  11. Deep Learning55◆ 0.87×57 topics
  12. Decolonization51▲ 34×5 topics
  13. Renewable Energy49▲ 1.84×31 topics
  14. Public Health48▲ 1.81×47 topics
  15. Pacific47▲ 135×2 topics
  16. Islands46▲ 225×1 topic
  17. Small States46▲ 225×1 topic
  18. COVID-1936▲ 1.50×22 topics
  19. Economic Growth33▲ 2.2×20 topics
  20. Community Empowerment31▲ 2.4×11 topics
  21. Child Development31▲ 4.1×7 topics
  22. Adaptation30▲ 5.5×10 topics
  23. Non-Communicable Diseases28▲ 5.7×5 topics
  24. Food Security28▲ 2.8×18 topics
  25. Health Education28▲ 3.5×7 topics
  26. Agriculture26▲ 3.7×9 topics
  27. Migration25▲ 4.0×7 topics
  28. Sea-Level Rise25▲ 12×5 topics
  29. Global Warming25▲ 3.2×11 topics
  30. Genetic Diversity24▲ 3.1×19 topics
  31. COVID-19 Impact23▲ 7.4×6 topics
  32. Resettlement22▲ 14×3 topics
  33. Maternal Health21▲ 4.5×4 topics
  34. Environmental Refugees21▲ 55×1 topic
  35. Natural Disasters21▲ 55×1 topic
  36. Breastfeeding21▲ 5.0×2 topics
  37. Technology Integration21▲ 3.6×8 topics
  38. Path Planning18▲ 7.8×3 topics
  39. Child Nutrition17▲ 5.1×1 topic
  40. Stunting17▲ 5.1×1 topic

Nepal

▲ 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. Epidemiology2,371▲ 1.61×135 topics
  2. Climate Change1,795▲ 1.78×118 topics
  3. Machine Learning1,547▲ 1.25×96 topics
  4. Deep Learning1,443◆ 1.13×85 topics
  5. Globalization1,274▲ 1.75×120 topics
  6. Sustainability1,243▲ 1.37×107 topics
  7. Education906▲ 1.42×107 topics
  8. COVID-19880▲ 1.83×31 topics
  9. Public Health754▲ 1.40×62 topics
  10. Treatment745▲ 1.65×52 topics
  11. Economic Growth711▲ 2.4×32 topics
  12. Environmental Impact703◆ 1.11×69 topics
  13. Quality of Life697▲ 1.30×57 topics
  14. Sustainable Development675▲ 1.16×94 topics
  15. Risk Factors662▲ 1.62×37 topics
  16. Diagnosis650▲ 1.88×41 topics
  17. Mental Health633▲ 1.19×45 topics
  18. Pandemic632▲ 1.72×13 topics
  19. Renewable Energy608◆ 1.13×55 topics
  20. Remote Sensing576▲ 1.27×42 topics
  21. Healthcare552▲ 1.31×38 topics
  22. Conflict544▲ 9.1×10 topics
  23. Cardiovascular Disease520▲ 1.23×39 topics
  24. Depression498▲ 1.53×25 topics
  25. Management494▲ 1.67×38 topics
  26. Food Security480▲ 2.4×22 topics
  27. Risk Management469▲ 2.7×17 topics
  28. Poverty416▲ 12×5 topics
  29. Social Inequality376▲ 3.8×11 topics
  30. IoT364▲ 2.6×19 topics
  31. Surgical Management362▲ 2.4×20 topics
  32. Maternal Mortality338▲ 4.1×5 topics
  33. Democratization326▲ 13×4 topics
  34. Identity Politics315▲ 18×3 topics
  35. Maoist Insurgency315▲ 161×1 topic
  36. Youth Employment315▲ 42×1 topic
  37. Community Health Workers245▲ 7.5×2 topics
  38. Health Inequalities239▲ 5.3×5 topics
  39. Child Mortality216▲ 8.1×1 topic
  40. Health Systems216▲ 8.1×1 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?

Nepal has out-published Fiji every year since 1980.

still counting5k10kNepal9,772 in 2025Fiji441 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 counting0.20%0.40%0.60%Nepal0.17% in 2025Fiji0.0075% 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%Fiji10.2% in 2025Nepal5.4% 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.

Fiji 05 level0 Nepal
  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, Fiji or Nepal?

Nepal publishes 20.1× as much research as Fiji in 2022-now (33k against 1.6k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Fiji or Nepal?

10.1% of Fiji's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.8% for Nepal.

Is Fiji or Nepal growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +54% against 2018-21 for Nepal, and +16% for Fiji.

Which has more open access research, Fiji or Nepal?

76% of Nepal's research is free to read, against 47% of Fiji's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Fiji or Nepal?

Fiji holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Nepal 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

  1. 1University of the South Pacific12.2% top 10% · 623 works
  2. 2Fiji National University10.5% top 10% · 424 works
  3. 3Ministry Of Health5.0% top 10% · 313 works
  4. 4University of Fiji8.6% top 10% · 135 works
  5. 5Ministry of Agriculture11.0% top 10% · 111 works

Nepal

  1. 1Tribhuvan University4.7% top 10% · 16k works
  2. 2College of Medical Sciences4.8% top 10% · 558 works
  3. 3Nepal Development Research Institute8.8% top 10% · 409 works
  4. 4Pokhara University5.3% top 10% · 1.6k works
  5. 5Purbanchal University6.5% top 10% · 334 works
  6. 6Agriculture and Forestry University5.3% top 10% · 1.4k 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. 1 Sangeeta Mangubhai #35,741 worldwide 6.3k citations · 189 works
  2. 2 Stacy D. Jupiter #71,945 worldwide 9.3k citations · 212 works
  3. 3 Shavneet Sharma #82,714 worldwide 2.3k citations · 79 works
  4. 4 Ramendra Prasad #86,233 worldwide 3.5k citations · 63 works
  5. 5 Abirami Ramu Ganesan #172,746 worldwide 3.1k citations · 59 works

Nepal

  1. 1 Meghnath Dhimal #20,212 worldwide 83k citations · 338 works
  2. 2 Arun Bhakta Shrestha #60,021 worldwide 17k citations · 187 works
  3. 3 Mandira Lamichhane Dhimal #65,202 worldwide 21k citations · 63 works
  4. 4 Krishna Kumar Aryal #72,386 worldwide 11k citations · 105 works
  5. 5 Santosh Nepal #88,994 worldwide 6.7k citations · 130 works