French Polynesia vs Réunion
On research quality in 2022-now, Réunion ranks #99 in the world and French Polynesia #152, of 189 countries. French Polynesia stands higher in 0 of the 1 fields both publish in, Réunion in 1.
Research profiles alike: 0.71very similar 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.
Réunion
- World rank, 2022-now
- #99
- #96 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 1.4k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 6.7%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 48%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Linguistics and Language, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Horticulture.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Réunion leads on 6 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, open access and growth. French Polynesia leads on 1 of 9 measures: citations per work. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100 and international co-authorship.
- #152Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#99
- 0.96×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected1.00×
- 313Outputfractional works, 2022-now1.4k
- 5.9%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.7%
- 22.6Citations per workall time, per fractional work10.5
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 41%Open accessof its works free to read, all time48%
- 41%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time42%
- +4%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+49%
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, Réunion in 1. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- -Social Sciences#100
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 | Réunion rank | French Polynesia top 10% | Réunion top 10% | French Polynesia works | Réunion works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | - | #100 | - | 5.4% | - | 478 |
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
Réunion
- Taxonomy
- Intercultural Communication
- French Territories
- Discrimination
- Public Action
- Educational Policies
- Environmental Participation
- Religion
- Culture
- Healthcare Access
- Gender Studies
- Phylogeny
- Sustainable Development
- Multilingualism
- Public Policy
- Gender
- Sociolinguistics
- Biogeography
- Identity
- Globalization
- Climate Change
- Migration
- Epidemiology
- Colonialism
- Social Justice
- Cultural Diversity
- Public Health
- Ethnicity
- Community Engagement
- Territorial Governance
- Local Development
- Politics
- Social Movements
- Citizen Participation
- Nationalism
- Professional Practices
- Sociological Analysis
- Social Inequality
- Migrant Workers
- Language Policy
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Climate Change100▲ 2.2×81 topics
- Globalization94▲ 2.9×75 topics
- Migration90▲ 16×17 topics
- Identity89▲ 7.5×46 topics
- Epidemiology84▲ 1.29×119 topics
- Biogeography81▲ 18×19 topics
- Colonialism80▲ 10×31 topics
- Sociolinguistics76▲ 25×8 topics
- Social Justice75▲ 7.7×20 topics
- Gender71▲ 8.0×34 topics
- Cultural Diversity70▲ 19×10 topics
- Public Policy62▲ 7.9×17 topics
- Public Health60▲ 2.5×41 topics
- Multilingualism60▲ 23×5 topics
- Ethnicity59▲ 9.6×12 topics
- Sustainable Development58▲ 2.3×32 topics
- Community Engagement58▲ 11×11 topics
- Phylogeny56▲ 20×15 topics
- Territorial Governance55▲ 29×4 topics
- Gender Studies54▲ 22×11 topics
- Local Development54▲ 31×2 topics
- Healthcare Access49▲ 11×10 topics
- Politics48▲ 11×17 topics
- Culture44▲ 5.1×21 topics
- Social Movements43▲ 8.9×21 topics
- Religion40▲ 5.3×20 topics
- Citizen Participation39▲ 21×1 topic
- Environmental Participation39▲ 34×1 topic
- Nationalism38▲ 5.1×19 topics
- Educational Policies37▲ 21×2 topics
- Professional Practices37▲ 63×1 topic
- Public Action37▲ 63×1 topic
- Sociological Analysis37▲ 40×2 topics
- Discrimination35▲ 10×5 topics
- Social Inequality34▲ 7.8×4 topics
- French Territories34▲ 211×1 topic
- Migrant Workers34▲ 211×1 topic
- Intercultural Communication33▲ 44×2 topics
- Language Policy33▲ 14×4 topics
- Taxonomy31▲ 13×13 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?
Réunion has out-published French Polynesia every year since 1994, 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 Réunion?
Réunion publishes 4.4× as much research as French Polynesia in 2022-now (1.4k against 313 fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, French Polynesia or Réunion?
6.7% of Réunion's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.9% for French Polynesia.
Is French Polynesia or Réunion growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +49% against 2018-21 for Réunion, and +4% for French Polynesia.
Which has more open access research, French Polynesia or Réunion?
48% of Réunion's research is free to read, against 41% of French Polynesia's.
Which has more world-class institutions, French Polynesia or Réunion?
French Polynesia holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Réunion 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
Réunion
- 1University of Reunion Island6.8% top 10% · 277 works
- 2Conseil Régional de La Réunion9.9% top 10% · 61 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
Réunion
- 1 Riccardo Rodolfo‐Metalpa #183,527 worldwide 6.3k citations · 141 works
- 2 Fanny Houlbrèque #324,354 worldwide 4.6k citations · 113 works
- 3 Marie‐Paule Gonthier #329,865 worldwide 4.4k citations · 57 works
- 4 Silvia Iacobelli #550,826 worldwide 6.2k citations · 158 works
- 5 Philippe Lauret #572,523 worldwide 3.9k citations · 103 works