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French Guiana vs Monaco

On research quality in 2022-now, Monaco ranks #143 in the world and French Guiana #145, of 189 countries.

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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.

Monaco

World rank, 2022-now
#143
#107 all time
Works, 2022-now
326
fractional
Top-10% rate
14.6%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
35%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Oceanography, Marketing, Biotechnology.

Who leads, measure by measure?

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

French Guiana 31 level5 Monaco
  1. #145Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#143
  2. 0.91×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected1.11×
  3. 518Outputfractional works, 2022-now326
  4. 5.8%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited14.6%
  5. 16.7Citations per workall time, per fractional work27.8
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 43%Open accessof its works free to read, all time35%
  8. 41%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time52%
  9. +31%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change-4%

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

Monaco

▲ 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. Climate Change32▲ 3.1×48 topics
  2. Ocean Acidification24▲ 84×3 topics
  3. Epidemiology17◆ 1.11×77 topics
  4. Marine Ecosystems15▲ 72×2 topics
  5. Bleaching15▲ 118×1 topic
  6. Coral Reefs15▲ 118×1 topic
  7. Sustainability13▲ 1.36×38 topics
  8. Consumer Behavior12▲ 4.9×11 topics
  9. Environmental Impact12▲ 1.78×23 topics
  10. Corporate Governance10▲ 3.7×10 topics
  11. Oxidative Stress10▲ 1.64×26 topics
  12. Customer Experience8▲ 12×3 topics
  13. Coastal Protection8▲ 29×2 topics
  14. Marine Environment7▲ 13×3 topics
  15. Brand Equity7▲ 28×1 topic
  16. Brand Trust7▲ 35×1 topic
  17. Health Effects7▲ 3.0×15 topics
  18. Ecosystem Services7▲ 4.6×6 topics
  19. Social Capital6▲ 3.3×9 topics
  20. Benthic Communities6▲ 25×2 topics
  21. Marine Biodiversity6▲ 25×2 topics
  22. CO2 Emissions6▲ 8.3×3 topics
  23. Environmental Impacts5▲ 5.1×6 topics
  24. Aquaculture5▲ 5.2×4 topics
  25. Global Change5▲ 5.0×3 topics
  26. Human Health5▲ 8.1×2 topics
  27. Calcifying Organisms5▲ 107×1 topic
  28. Marine Organisms5▲ 107×1 topic
  29. Metagenomics5▲ 14×3 topics
  30. Climate Change Impacts5▲ 10×4 topics
  31. Ecosystem Resilience5▲ 8.0×4 topics
  32. Impulse Buying5▲ 23×1 topic
  33. Multichannel Retailing5▲ 23×1 topic
  34. Bioprospecting5▲ 43×2 topics
  35. Kelp Forests4▲ 38×1 topic
  36. Marine Natural Products4▲ 26×2 topics
  37. Microbial Symbionts4▲ 78×1 topic
  38. Seagrasses4▲ 38×1 topic
  39. Sponge-Associated Microorganisms4▲ 78×1 topic
  40. Stakeholder Engagement4▲ 11×3 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?

French Guiana has out-published Monaco every year since 2020, when it overtook it.

still counting100200French Guiana155 in 2025Monaco86 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%French Guiana0.0026% in 2025Monaco0.0015% 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%Monaco13.9% 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 Monaco
  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 Monaco?

French Guiana publishes 1.6× as much research as Monaco in 2022-now (518 against 326 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, French Guiana or Monaco?

14.6% of Monaco's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.8% for French Guiana.

Is French Guiana or Monaco growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +31% against 2018-21 for French Guiana, and -4% for Monaco.

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

43% of French Guiana's research is free to read, against 35% of Monaco's.

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

French Guiana holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Monaco 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

Monaco

  1. 1International University of Monaco14.1% top 10% · 173 works
  2. 2Scientific Centre of Monaco19.1% top 10% · 91 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

Monaco

  1. 1 Christine Ferrier‐Pagès #76,466 worldwide 16k citations · 332 works
  2. 2 Denis Allemand #77,538 worldwide 19k citations · 318 works
  3. 3 Éric Tambutté #79,835 worldwide 8.7k citations · 169 works
  4. 4 Didier Zoccola #169,874 worldwide 6.7k citations · 175 works
  5. 5 Sylvie Tambutté #172,332 worldwide 8.5k citations · 155 works