French Polynesia vs Gabon
On research quality in 2022-now, French Polynesia ranks #152 in the world and Gabon #155, of 189 countries. French Polynesia stands higher in 0 of the 1 fields both publish in, Gabon in 1.
Research profiles alike: 0.45similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured
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French Polynesia
- World rank, 2022-now
- #152
- #117 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 313
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 5.9%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 41%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Developmental Biology, History and Philosophy of Science, Geography, Planning and Development.
Gabon
- World rank, 2022-now
- #155
- #146 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 782
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 5.4%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 60%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Parasitology, Forestry, Virology.
Who leads, measure by measure?
French Polynesia leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, top-10% rate and citations per work. Gabon leads on 4 of 9 measures: output, open access, international co-authorship and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.
- #152Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#155
- 0.96×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.74×
- 313Outputfractional works, 2022-now782
- 5.9%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.4%
- 22.6Citations per workall time, per fractional work13.9
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 41%Open accessof its works free to read, all time60%
- 41%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time47%
- +4%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+38%
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?
French Polynesia stands higher in 0 of 1 fields, Gabon in 1. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- -Medicine#110
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 | French Polynesia rank | Gabon rank | French Polynesia top 10% | Gabon top 10% | French Polynesia works | Gabon works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine | - | #110 | - | 3.9% | - | 329 |
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 Polynesia
- Healthcare Access
- Marine Environment
- settlement
- Island Ecosystems
- Cultural History
- Archaeology
- Bleaching
- Local Development
- Community Engagement
- Population Dynamics
- Public Policy
- Colonialism
- Marine Ecosystems
- Public Health
- Small States
- Pacific
- Resilience
- Vulnerability
- Decolonization
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
- Globalization
- Governance
- Economic Development
- Environmental Impact
- Islands
- Ocean Acidification
- Migration
- Identity
- Conservation
- Sustainable Development
- Social Justice
- Genetic Diversity
- Territorial Governance
- Coral Reefs
- Citizen Participation
- Environmental Participation
- Pacific Islands
- Aquaculture
- Cultural Diversity
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Climate Change46▲ 4.9×40 topics
- Sustainability37▲ 4.3×17 topics
- Globalization36▲ 5.2×29 topics
- Decolonization28▲ 99×5 topics
- Governance26▲ 23×6 topics
- Vulnerability25▲ 31×4 topics
- Economic Development24▲ 8.8×9 topics
- Resilience24▲ 14×7 topics
- Environmental Impact23▲ 3.9×18 topics
- Pacific23▲ 344×2 topics
- Islands22▲ 559×1 topic
- Small States22▲ 559×1 topic
- Ocean Acidification18▲ 68×3 topics
- Public Health18▲ 3.5×20 topics
- Migration17▲ 14×8 topics
- Marine Ecosystems16▲ 86×2 topics
- Identity15▲ 6.2×14 topics
- Colonialism14▲ 8.7×13 topics
- Conservation14▲ 9.2×13 topics
- Public Policy13▲ 8.0×4 topics
- Sustainable Development13▲ 2.4×9 topics
- Population Dynamics13▲ 15×9 topics
- Social Justice13▲ 6.2×6 topics
- Community Engagement12▲ 11×5 topics
- Genetic Diversity12▲ 8.3×9 topics
- Local Development12▲ 34×2 topics
- Territorial Governance12▲ 30×2 topics
- Bleaching11▲ 101×1 topic
- Coral Reefs11▲ 101×1 topic
- Archaeology10▲ 24×3 topics
- Citizen Participation10▲ 26×1 topic
- Cultural History10▲ 25×2 topics
- Environmental Participation10▲ 43×1 topic
- Island Ecosystems10▲ 87×2 topics
- Pacific Islands10▲ 224×1 topic
- settlement10▲ 224×1 topic
- Aquaculture9▲ 10×7 topics
- Marine Environment9▲ 18×3 topics
- Cultural Diversity9▲ 11×5 topics
- Healthcare Access8▲ 8.9×4 topics
Gabon
- Agroecology
- Onchocerciasis
- Diversity
- ACE2 Receptor
- Soil-Transmitted Helminths
- Immunomodulation
- Immune Regulation
- Zoonotic Infections
- Zika Virus
- Global Epidemiology
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Vector Control
- Pathogenesis
- Plasmodium falciparum
- Genome Sequence
- Insecticide Resistance
- Vaccine
- Climate Change
- Global Burden
- Vaccine Development
- Epidemiology
- Public Health
- Immune Response
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Helminth Infections
- Artemisinin Resistance
- Smallholder Farmers
- Risk Factors
- Drug Resistance
- SARS-CoV-2
- Arboviral Diseases
- Disease Burden
- Adaptation
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Schistosomiasis
- Ivermectin
- Agroforestry
- Lymphatic Filariasis
- Nutritional Value
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology180▲ 4.5×116 topics
- Vaccine Development53▲ 21×11 topics
- Public Health51▲ 3.5×36 topics
- Global Burden47▲ 8.7×12 topics
- Immune Response41▲ 7.3×19 topics
- Climate Change39▲ 1.44×56 topics
- Diagnosis34▲ 3.7×37 topics
- Vaccine32▲ 8.1×11 topics
- Treatment32▲ 2.6×35 topics
- Insecticide Resistance31▲ 39×4 topics
- Helminth Infections29▲ 70×2 topics
- Genome Sequence28▲ 34×2 topics
- Artemisinin Resistance26▲ 79×1 topic
- Plasmodium falciparum26▲ 79×1 topic
- Smallholder Farmers26▲ 12×5 topics
- Pathogenesis25▲ 4.9×20 topics
- Risk Factors24▲ 2.2×25 topics
- Vector Control23▲ 20×4 topics
- Drug Resistance20▲ 7.0×9 topics
- Biodiversity Conservation18▲ 5.0×9 topics
- SARS-CoV-218▲ 6.0×5 topics
- Global Epidemiology17▲ 39×2 topics
- Arboviral Diseases17▲ 27×1 topic
- Zika Virus17▲ 27×1 topic
- Disease Burden17▲ 23×2 topics
- Zoonotic Infections17▲ 31×2 topics
- Adaptation17▲ 5.6×9 topics
- Immune Regulation16▲ 14×4 topics
- Antiretroviral Therapy16▲ 9.5×6 topics
- Immunomodulation16▲ 12×2 topics
- Schistosomiasis15▲ 55×1 topic
- Soil-Transmitted Helminths15▲ 55×1 topic
- Ivermectin15▲ 54×2 topics
- ACE2 Receptor14▲ 6.3×3 topics
- Agroforestry14▲ 20×3 topics
- Diversity14▲ 7.8×2 topics
- Lymphatic Filariasis14▲ 104×1 topic
- Onchocerciasis14▲ 104×1 topic
- Nutritional Value13▲ 12×3 topics
- Agroecology12▲ 8.8×2 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?
Gabon has out-published French Polynesia every year since 1997, 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, French Polynesia or Gabon?
Gabon publishes 2.5× as much research as French Polynesia in 2022-now (782 against 313 fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, French Polynesia or Gabon?
5.9% of French Polynesia's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.4% for Gabon.
Is French Polynesia or Gabon growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +38% against 2018-21 for Gabon, and +4% for French Polynesia.
Which has more open access research, French Polynesia or Gabon?
60% of Gabon's research is free to read, against 41% of French Polynesia's.
Which has more world-class institutions, French Polynesia or Gabon?
French Polynesia holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Gabon 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 Polynesia
- 1University of French Polynesia5.1% top 10% · 256 works
Gabon
- 1Omar Bongo University5.6% top 10% · 170 works
- 2Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku2.4% top 10% · 139 works
- 3Université des Sciences de la Santé4.0% top 10% · 135 works
- 4Libreville Hospital4.3% top 10% · 126 works
- 5Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville5.9% top 10% · 62 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 Polynesia
- 1 Joachim Claudet #13,481 worldwide 13k citations · 340 works
- 2 Jeffrey Allen Maynard #68,760 worldwide 8k citations · 82 works
- 3 Didier Musso #145,369 worldwide 21k citations · 223 works
- 4 Van‐Mai Cao‐Lormeau #156,587 worldwide 14k citations · 126 works
- 5 Lauric Thiault #264,474 worldwide 1.6k citations · 38 works
Gabon
- 1 Sélidji Todagbé Agnandji #147,661 worldwide 6.8k citations · 179 works
- 2 Eric Maurice Leroy #219,537 worldwide 24k citations · 321 works
- 3 Vincent P. Medjibe #255,842 worldwide 3.1k citations · 43 works
- 4 Dieudonné Nkoghe #290,691 worldwide 3.9k citations · 46 works
- 5 Pulchérie Bissiengou #307,381 worldwide 994 citations · 63 works