Gabon vs Mali
On research quality in 2022-now, Mali ranks #118 in the world and Gabon #155, of 189 countries. Gabon stands higher in 0 of the 3 fields both publish in, Mali in 3.
Research profiles alike: 0.80very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured
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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.
Mali
- World rank, 2022-now
- #118
- #81 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 1.9k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 5.0%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 62%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Medical Terminology, Forestry, Horticulture.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Gabon leads on 3 of 9 measures: excellence for its fields, top-10% rate and growth. Mali leads on 3 of 9 measures: research quality, output and citations per work. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100, open access and international co-authorship.
- #155Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#118
- 0.74×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.56×
- 782Outputfractional works, 2022-now1.9k
- 5.4%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.0%
- 13.9Citations per workall time, per fractional work14.4
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 60%Open accessof its works free to read, all time62%
- 47%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time46%
- +38%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+9%
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?
Gabon stands higher in 0 of 3 fields, Mali in 3. Mali leads most in Medicine (#88 against #110). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#73
- #110Medicine#88
- -Social Sciences#119
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 | Gabon rank | Mali rank | Gabon top 10% | Mali top 10% | Gabon works | Mali works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | - | #73 | - | 7.4% | - | 261 |
| Medicine | #110 | #88 | 3.9% | 2.6% | 329 | 792 |
| Social Sciences | - | #119 | - | 6.9% | - | 221 |
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.
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
Mali
- Water Sanitation Hygiene
- Universal Health Coverage
- Healthcare Quality Indicators
- Plasmodium falciparum
- Healthcare Policy
- Genome Sequence
- Health Systems
- Social Determinants of Health
- Community Health Workers
- Primary Care
- Pathogenesis
- Immune Response
- Work Organization
- Livestock Farming
- Diversity
- Vaccine Development
- Treatment
- Adaptation
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Public Health
- Smallholder Farmers
- Diagnosis
- Agroecology
- Agricultural Development
- Multifunctionality
- Global Burden
- Maternal Mortality
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Vaccine
- Health Inequalities
- Socio-economic Factors
- Child Mortality
- Insecticide Resistance
- Digital Health
- Artemisinin Resistance
- Healthcare Management
- Inequalities
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology278▲ 3.2×126 topics
- Climate Change132▲ 2.2×76 topics
- Public Health110▲ 3.5×54 topics
- Sustainability107▲ 2.0×62 topics
- Smallholder Farmers101▲ 22×6 topics
- Adaptation77▲ 12×9 topics
- Diagnosis76▲ 3.7×38 topics
- Treatment69▲ 2.6×44 topics
- Agroecology64▲ 21×3 topics
- Vaccine Development64▲ 11×11 topics
- Agricultural Development62▲ 18×5 topics
- Diversity61▲ 16×5 topics
- Multifunctionality61▲ 60×2 topics
- Livestock Farming61▲ 47×3 topics
- Global Burden61▲ 5.1×12 topics
- Work Organization60▲ 72×1 topic
- Maternal Mortality58▲ 12×5 topics
- Immune Response57▲ 4.6×17 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture53▲ 7.8×12 topics
- Pathogenesis50▲ 4.4×22 topics
- Vaccine48▲ 5.5×11 topics
- Primary Care44▲ 5.4×12 topics
- Health Inequalities44▲ 16×3 topics
- Community Health Workers43▲ 22×2 topics
- Socio-economic Factors43▲ 18×3 topics
- Social Determinants of Health42▲ 8.9×6 topics
- Child Mortality42▲ 27×1 topic
- Health Systems42▲ 27×1 topic
- Insecticide Resistance40▲ 23×4 topics
- Genome Sequence39▲ 21×4 topics
- Digital Health37▲ 15×3 topics
- Healthcare Policy36▲ 18×3 topics
- Artemisinin Resistance36▲ 49×1 topic
- Plasmodium falciparum36▲ 49×1 topic
- Healthcare Management35▲ 20×2 topics
- Healthcare Quality Indicators34▲ 27×2 topics
- Inequalities34▲ 49×1 topic
- Universal Health Coverage34▲ 49×1 topic
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition31▲ 17×1 topic
- Water Sanitation Hygiene31▲ 17×1 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?
Mali has out-published Gabon every year since 1980.
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, Gabon or Mali?
Mali publishes 2.5× as much research as Gabon in 2022-now (1.9k against 782 fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Gabon or Mali?
5.4% of Gabon's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.0% for Mali.
Is Gabon or Mali growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +38% against 2018-21 for Gabon, and +9% for Mali.
Which has more open access research, Gabon or Mali?
62% of Mali's research is free to read, against 60% of Gabon's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Gabon or Mali?
Gabon holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Mali 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%.
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
Mali
- 1Université des Sciences, des Techniques et des Technologies de Bamako6.0% top 10% · 328 works
- 2University of Bamako3.4% top 10% · 385 works
- 3Mali-Folkecenter2.3% top 10% · 477 works
- 4Université des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de Bamako4.9% top 10% · 176 works
- 5Institut National de Recherche en Santé Publique5.7% top 10% · 71 works
- 6Ministry of Economy and Finance10.7% top 10% · 71 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.
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
Mali
- 1 Samba Ousmane Sow #66,530 worldwide 20k citations · 379 works
- 2 Robert B. Zougmoré #67,997 worldwide 8.3k citations · 341 works
- 3 Ogobara K. Doumbo #80,129 worldwide 33k citations · 514 works
- 4 Boubou Tamboura #86,714 worldwide 10k citations · 63 works
- 5 Kassoum Kayentao #103,548 worldwide 9k citations · 217 works