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Gabon vs Togo

On research quality in 2022-now, Gabon ranks #155 in the world and Togo #156, of 189 countries. Gabon stands higher in 1 of the 3 fields both publish in, Togo in 2.

Research profiles alike: 0.75very 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.

Togo

World rank, 2022-now
#156
#173 all time
Works, 2022-now
2.1k
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.7%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
69%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Horticulture, Forestry, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Gabon leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, citations per work and international co-authorship. Togo leads on 3 of 9 measures: output, open access and growth. The two are level on top-10% rate and institutions in the world top 100.

Gabon 42 level3 Togo
  1. #155Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#156
  2. 0.74×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.50×
  3. 782Outputfractional works, 2022-now2.1k
  4. 5.4%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.7%
  5. 13.9Citations per workall time, per fractional work5.4
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 60%Open accessof its works free to read, all time69%
  8. 47%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time36%
  9. +38%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+43%

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 1 of 3 fields, Togo in 2. Gabon leads most in Medicine (#110 against #135). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Gabon 12 Togo
  1. -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#102
  2. #110Medicine#135
  3. -Social Sciences#112

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 rankTogo rank Gabon top 10%Togo top 10% Gabon worksTogo works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences - #102 - 6.7% - 395
Medicine #110 #135 3.9% 2.0% 329 472
Social Sciences - #112 - 7.5% - 316

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

▲ 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. Epidemiology180▲ 4.5×116 topics
  2. Vaccine Development53▲ 21×11 topics
  3. Public Health51▲ 3.5×36 topics
  4. Global Burden47▲ 8.7×12 topics
  5. Immune Response41▲ 7.3×19 topics
  6. Climate Change39▲ 1.44×56 topics
  7. Diagnosis34▲ 3.7×37 topics
  8. Vaccine32▲ 8.1×11 topics
  9. Treatment32▲ 2.6×35 topics
  10. Insecticide Resistance31▲ 39×4 topics
  11. Helminth Infections29▲ 70×2 topics
  12. Genome Sequence28▲ 34×2 topics
  13. Artemisinin Resistance26▲ 79×1 topic
  14. Plasmodium falciparum26▲ 79×1 topic
  15. Smallholder Farmers26▲ 12×5 topics
  16. Pathogenesis25▲ 4.9×20 topics
  17. Risk Factors24▲ 2.2×25 topics
  18. Vector Control23▲ 20×4 topics
  19. Drug Resistance20▲ 7.0×9 topics
  20. Biodiversity Conservation18▲ 5.0×9 topics
  21. SARS-CoV-218▲ 6.0×5 topics
  22. Global Epidemiology17▲ 39×2 topics
  23. Arboviral Diseases17▲ 27×1 topic
  24. Zika Virus17▲ 27×1 topic
  25. Disease Burden17▲ 23×2 topics
  26. Zoonotic Infections17▲ 31×2 topics
  27. Adaptation17▲ 5.6×9 topics
  28. Immune Regulation16▲ 14×4 topics
  29. Antiretroviral Therapy16▲ 9.5×6 topics
  30. Immunomodulation16▲ 12×2 topics
  31. Schistosomiasis15▲ 55×1 topic
  32. Soil-Transmitted Helminths15▲ 55×1 topic
  33. Ivermectin15▲ 54×2 topics
  34. ACE2 Receptor14▲ 6.3×3 topics
  35. Agroforestry14▲ 20×3 topics
  36. Diversity14▲ 7.8×2 topics
  37. Lymphatic Filariasis14▲ 104×1 topic
  38. Onchocerciasis14▲ 104×1 topic
  39. Nutritional Value13▲ 12×3 topics
  40. Agroecology12▲ 8.8×2 topics

Togo

▲ 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 Change190▲ 3.0×79 topics
  2. Sustainability181▲ 3.1×64 topics
  3. Smallholder Farmers179▲ 36×5 topics
  4. Epidemiology147▲ 1.58×120 topics
  5. Adaptation118▲ 17×10 topics
  6. Biodiversity Conservation109▲ 12×12 topics
  7. Agricultural Development105▲ 29×4 topics
  8. Diversity104▲ 25×6 topics
  9. Agroecology104▲ 32×2 topics
  10. Livestock Farming103▲ 74×2 topics
  11. Multifunctionality103▲ 94×1 topic
  12. Work Organization103▲ 114×1 topic
  13. Agroforestry86▲ 55×4 topics
  14. Sustainable Agriculture79▲ 11×14 topics
  15. Climate Resilience74▲ 53×3 topics
  16. Nutritional Value73▲ 28×4 topics
  17. Public Health73▲ 2.1×48 topics
  18. Sustainable Development73▲ 1.98×49 topics
  19. Globalization72▲ 1.55×68 topics
  20. Rural Livelihoods69▲ 54×3 topics
  21. Indigenous Fruits68▲ 126×1 topic
  22. Tree Domestication68▲ 126×1 topic
  23. Environmental Impact63▲ 1.58×47 topics
  24. Healthcare56▲ 2.1×21 topics
  25. Genetic Diversity50▲ 4.9×20 topics
  26. Economic Development46▲ 2.5×22 topics
  27. Economic Growth46▲ 2.4×25 topics
  28. Social Justice43▲ 3.1×23 topics
  29. Ecosystem Services41▲ 4.5×12 topics
  30. Food Security40▲ 3.1×14 topics
  31. Governance39▲ 5.1×10 topics
  32. Gender Equality39▲ 5.9×9 topics
  33. Ethnicity36▲ 4.0×11 topics
  34. Community Engagement35▲ 4.6×12 topics
  35. Local Development31▲ 13×2 topics
  36. Territorial Governance31▲ 12×2 topics
  37. Maternal Mortality30▲ 5.7×5 topics
  38. Social Determinants of Health30▲ 5.9×5 topics
  39. Citizen Participation26▲ 9.6×2 topics
  40. Poverty Reduction25▲ 8.3×5 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?

Togo has out-published Gabon every year since 2012, when it overtook it.

still counting200400600Togo532 in 2025Gabon193 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%Togo0.0090% in 2025Gabon0.0033% 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%Togo6.4% in 2025Gabon6.0% 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.

Gabon 05 level0 Togo
  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, Gabon or Togo?

Togo publishes 2.7× as much research as Gabon in 2022-now (2.1k against 782 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Gabon or Togo?

5.7% of Togo's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.4% for Gabon.

Is Gabon or Togo growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +43% against 2018-21 for Togo, and +38% for Gabon.

Which has more open access research, Gabon or Togo?

69% of Togo's research is free to read, against 60% of Gabon's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Gabon or Togo?

Gabon holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Togo 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

  1. 1Omar Bongo University5.6% top 10% · 170 works
  2. 2Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku2.4% top 10% · 139 works
  3. 3Université des Sciences de la Santé4.0% top 10% · 135 works
  4. 4Libreville Hospital4.3% top 10% · 126 works
  5. 5Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville5.9% top 10% · 62 works

Togo

  1. 1University of Kara5.2% top 10% · 607 works
  2. 2University of Lomé6.3% top 10% · 1.2k works
  3. 3Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Tokoin1.7% top 10% · 138 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. 1 Sélidji Todagbé Agnandji #147,661 worldwide 6.8k citations · 179 works
  2. 2 Eric Maurice Leroy #219,537 worldwide 24k citations · 321 works
  3. 3 Vincent P. Medjibe #255,842 worldwide 3.1k citations · 43 works
  4. 4 Dieudonné Nkoghe #290,691 worldwide 3.9k citations · 46 works
  5. 5 Pulchérie Bissiengou #307,381 worldwide 994 citations · 63 works

Togo

  1. 1 Kokou Agoudavi #157,398 worldwide 2.4k citations · 30 works
  2. 2 Essossinam Ali #348,125 worldwide 585 citations · 42 works
  3. 3 K. H. Lo #657,928 worldwide 1.3k citations · 24 works
  4. 4 Kodjo Théodore Gnedeka #944,643 worldwide 428 citations · 45 works
  5. 5 Issaka Maman #1,506,197 worldwide 771 citations · 47 works