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French Guiana vs Laos

On research quality in 2022-now, Laos ranks #79 in the world and French Guiana #145, of 189 countries.

Research profiles alike: 0.82very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured

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French Guiana

World rank, 2022-now
#145
#145 all time
Works, 2022-now
518
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.8%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
43%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Parasitology, Virology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Laos

World rank, 2022-now
#79
#88 all time
Works, 2022-now
1.2k
fractional
Top-10% rate
7.2%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
66%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Parasitology, Forestry, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Laos leads on 7 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, open access, international co-authorship and growth. French Guiana leads on 1 of 9 measures: citations per work. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

French Guiana 11 level7 Laos
  1. #145Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#79
  2. 0.91×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.96×
  3. 518Outputfractional works, 2022-now1.2k
  4. 5.8%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited7.2%
  5. 16.7Citations per workall time, per fractional work11.8
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 43%Open accessof its works free to read, all time66%
  8. 41%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time56%
  9. +31%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+81%

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.

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.

French Guiana

▲ 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. Epidemiology104▲ 4.5×89 topics
  2. Public Health80▲ 9.5×36 topics
  3. Migration46▲ 23×11 topics
  4. Healthcare Access45▲ 28×8 topics
  5. Ethnicity43▲ 20×5 topics
  6. Cultural Diversity43▲ 33×5 topics
  7. Sociolinguistics42▲ 40×5 topics
  8. Social Inequality42▲ 27×7 topics
  9. Discrimination41▲ 34×3 topics
  10. French Territories40▲ 722×1 topic
  11. Migrant Workers40▲ 722×1 topic
  12. Climate Change32▲ 2.0×58 topics
  13. Vaccine Development28▲ 19×9 topics
  14. Diagnosis26▲ 4.8×29 topics
  15. Pathogenesis21▲ 7.0×20 topics
  16. Globalization20▲ 1.76×29 topics
  17. Vector Control20▲ 29×4 topics
  18. Treatment19▲ 2.7×33 topics
  19. Biodiversity18▲ 4.1×22 topics
  20. Immune Response15▲ 4.7×16 topics
  21. Antiretroviral Therapy14▲ 15×6 topics
  22. Arboviral Diseases14▲ 36×1 topic
  23. Diversity14▲ 13×4 topics
  24. Zika Virus14▲ 36×1 topic
  25. Antifungal Therapy13▲ 26×3 topics
  26. Virulence Factors13▲ 15×7 topics
  27. Colonialism13▲ 4.6×16 topics
  28. HIV12▲ 25×4 topics
  29. Smallholder Farmers12▲ 9.5×4 topics
  30. Adaptation11▲ 6.4×6 topics
  31. Candidiasis11▲ 42×2 topics
  32. Insecticide Resistance10▲ 22×4 topics
  33. Local Development9▲ 15×2 topics
  34. Territorial Governance9▲ 14×2 topics
  35. Agricultural Development9▲ 10×1 topic
  36. Livestock Farming9▲ 26×1 topic
  37. Fungal Pathogens9▲ 12×3 topics
  38. Host-Pathogen Interactions9▲ 18×4 topics
  39. Genome Sequence9▲ 18×3 topics
  40. Oral Manifestations9▲ 59×2 topics

Laos

▲ 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. Epidemiology110▲ 1.87×113 topics
  2. Climate Change94▲ 2.3×89 topics
  3. Sustainability72▲ 2.0×75 topics
  4. Public Health47▲ 2.2×58 topics
  5. Environmental Impact47▲ 1.85×48 topics
  6. Biodiversity45▲ 4.0×31 topics
  7. Globalization44▲ 1.51×67 topics
  8. Sustainable Development39▲ 1.70×59 topics
  9. Education38▲ 1.51×69 topics
  10. Economic Development33▲ 2.8×20 topics
  11. Genetic Diversity28▲ 4.3×21 topics
  12. Biogeography27▲ 6.6×19 topics
  13. Pathogenesis26▲ 3.5×22 topics
  14. Antioxidant25▲ 2.5×41 topics
  15. Immune Response24▲ 2.9×22 topics
  16. Food Security23▲ 2.9×24 topics
  17. Vaccine Development23▲ 6.0×11 topics
  18. Biodiversity Conservation22▲ 4.0×14 topics
  19. Democracy22▲ 4.3×14 topics
  20. Invasive Species22▲ 3.6×20 topics
  21. Health Education22▲ 3.5×11 topics
  22. Vaccine22▲ 3.7×11 topics
  23. Ethnic Identity20▲ 12×2 topics
  24. Medicinal Plants19▲ 3.3×18 topics
  25. Cultural Politics19▲ 19×2 topics
  26. Laos19▲ 91×1 topic
  27. Thailand19▲ 91×1 topic
  28. Anti-inflammatory18▲ 4.3×23 topics
  29. Monetary Policy18▲ 5.2×6 topics
  30. Land Use Change18▲ 4.0×8 topics
  31. Maternal Health17▲ 4.5×4 topics
  32. Economic Evaluation17▲ 9.9×2 topics
  33. Breastfeeding16▲ 4.8×3 topics
  34. Molecular Phylogeny16▲ 6.5×12 topics
  35. Financial Analysis15▲ 8.8×3 topics
  36. Market Competition15▲ 22×2 topics
  37. Asset Pricing14▲ 11×2 topics
  38. Panel Data Models14▲ 31×1 topic
  39. Stock Prices14▲ 46×1 topic
  40. Taxonomy14▲ 6.3×13 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?

Laos has out-published French Guiana every year since 2007, when it overtook it.

still counting200400600Laos416 in 2025French Guiana155 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 counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Laos0.0071% in 2025French Guiana0.0026% 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%Laos8.3% in 2025French Guiana3.7% 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.

French Guiana 05 level0 Laos
  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, French Guiana or Laos?

Laos publishes 2.3× as much research as French Guiana in 2022-now (1.2k against 518 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, French Guiana or Laos?

7.2% of Laos's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.8% for French Guiana.

Is French Guiana or Laos growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +81% against 2018-21 for Laos, and +31% for French Guiana.

Which has more open access research, French Guiana or Laos?

66% of Laos's research is free to read, against 43% of French Guiana's.

Which has more world-class institutions, French Guiana or Laos?

French Guiana holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Laos 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%.

French Guiana

  1. 1University of French Guiana5.1% top 10% · 259 works
  2. 2Centre Hospitalier Andrée Rosemon5.4% top 10% · 180 works

Laos

  1. 1National University of Laos4.6% top 10% · 362 works
  2. 2Rural Development Agency7.7% top 10% · 144 works
  3. 3Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry8.4% top 10% · 213 works
  4. 4Ministry of Health6.3% top 10% · 120 works
  5. 5Souphanouvong University3.1% top 10% · 97 works
  6. 6National Institute of Public Health4.1% top 10% · 99 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.

French Guiana

  1. 1 Christopher Baraloto #17,484 worldwide 26k citations · 268 works
  2. 2 C. E. Timothy Paine #81,364 worldwide 8.9k citations · 75 works
  3. 3 Pascal Pétronelli #167,560 worldwide 2k citations · 29 works
  4. 4 Éric Marcon #208,107 worldwide 5.2k citations · 116 works
  5. 5 Clément Stahl #223,947 worldwide 5.8k citations · 193 works

Laos

  1. 1 Mayfong Mayxay #108,394 worldwide 33k citations · 323 works
  2. 2 Paul N. Newton #120,711 worldwide 47k citations · 583 works
  3. 3 Tamalee Roberts #271,991 worldwide 23k citations · 89 works
  4. 4 Koukeo Phommasone #403,495 worldwide 22k citations · 124 works
  5. 5 Thoumthone Vongvisouk #656,079 worldwide 786 citations · 32 works