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Gambia vs Kenya

On research quality in 2022-now, Kenya ranks #57 in the world and the Gambia #87, of 189 countries. The Gambia stands higher in 0 of the 17 fields both publish in, Kenya in 17.

Research profiles alike: 0.83very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured

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Gambia

World rank, 2022-now
#87
#77 all time
Works, 2022-now
793
fractional
Top-10% rate
11.2%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
73%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Infectious Diseases, Anthropology.

Kenya

World rank, 2022-now
#57
#58 all time
Works, 2022-now
29k
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.7%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
70%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Safety Research, Business and International Management, Library and Information Sciences.

Who leads, measure by measure?

The Gambia leads on 6 of 9 measures: excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work, open access, international co-authorship and growth. Kenya leads on 2 of 9 measures: research quality and output. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Gambia 61 level2 Kenya
  1. #87Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#57
  2. 1.30×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.73×
  3. 793Outputfractional works, 2022-now29k
  4. 11.2%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.7%
  5. 25.5Citations per workall time, per fractional work12.3
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 73%Open accessof its works free to read, all time70%
  8. 44%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time26%
  9. +58%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+28%

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?

Gambia stands higher in 0 of 17 fields, Kenya in 17. Kenya leads most in Medicine (#44 against #51). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Gambia 017 Kenya
  1. -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#39
  2. -Arts and Humanities#64
  3. -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#57
  4. -Business, Management and Accounting#69
  5. -Computer Science#73
  6. -Decision Sciences#66
  7. -Economics, Econometrics and Finance#65
  8. -Engineering#79
  9. -Environmental Science#58
  10. -Health Professions#57
  11. -Immunology and Microbiology#36
  12. -Materials Science#77
  13. -Mathematics#52
  14. #51Medicine#44
  15. -Nursing#41
  16. -Psychology#70
  17. -Social Sciences#71

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 Gambia rankKenya rank Gambia top 10%Kenya top 10% Gambia worksKenya works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences - #39 - 9.6% - 3.1k
Arts and Humanities - #64 - 7.2% - 720
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - #57 - 8.2% - 705
Business, Management and Accounting - #69 - 2.6% - 3.3k
Computer Science - #73 - 4.8% - 1.3k
Decision Sciences - #66 - 3.1% - 710
Economics, Econometrics and Finance - #65 - 3.4% - 1.8k
Engineering - #79 - 5.8% - 1.4k
Environmental Science - #58 - 6.5% - 2k
Health Professions - #57 - 7.5% - 1.1k
Immunology and Microbiology - #36 - 9.0% - 308
Materials Science - #77 - 5.0% - 232
Mathematics - #52 - 5.7% - 352
Medicine #51 #44 13.4% 7.1% 260 3.9k
Nursing - #41 - 6.2% - 393
Psychology - #70 - 5.0% - 1.1k
Social Sciences - #71 - 4.7% - 6.1k

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.

Gambia

▲ 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. Epidemiology113▲ 2.9×97 topics
  2. Climate Change50▲ 1.84×62 topics
  3. Sustainability33▲ 1.35×49 topics
  4. Globalization32▲ 1.66×41 topics
  5. Economic Growth32▲ 4.0×19 topics
  6. Global Burden32▲ 5.8×12 topics
  7. Immune Response31▲ 5.4×17 topics
  8. Public Health30▲ 2.1×41 topics
  9. Vaccine29▲ 7.4×11 topics
  10. COVID-1928▲ 2.2×21 topics
  11. Vaccine Development28▲ 11×9 topics
  12. Maternal Mortality25▲ 11×5 topics
  13. Cardiovascular Disease24▲ 2.1×28 topics
  14. Pathogenesis23▲ 4.5×20 topics
  15. Infectious Diseases22▲ 6.8×9 topics
  16. Child Development19▲ 4.7×7 topics
  17. Community Health Workers19▲ 22×2 topics
  18. Vulnerability19▲ 8.2×6 topics
  19. Health Inequalities19▲ 16×3 topics
  20. Socio-economic Factors18▲ 17×2 topics
  21. Child Mortality18▲ 25×1 topic
  22. Health Systems18▲ 25×1 topic
  23. Social Capital18▲ 3.4×12 topics
  24. Global Burden of Disease16▲ 6.7×4 topics
  25. Insecticide Resistance16▲ 20×4 topics
  26. Risk Management16▲ 3.4×8 topics
  27. Adaptation15▲ 5.1×7 topics
  28. Global Warming15▲ 3.5×9 topics
  29. Poverty Reduction15▲ 11×4 topics
  30. Governance14▲ 4.4×8 topics
  31. Risk Perception14▲ 5.3×6 topics
  32. Genome Sequence14▲ 17×3 topics
  33. Development14▲ 3.9×14 topics
  34. Maternal and Child Undernutrition13▲ 17×1 topic
  35. Water Sanitation Hygiene13▲ 17×1 topic
  36. Artemisinin Resistance13▲ 41×1 topic
  37. Plasmodium falciparum13▲ 41×1 topic
  38. Global Health12▲ 7.6×5 topics
  39. Respiratory Infections12▲ 10×3 topics
  40. Infertility10▲ 7.3×4 topics

Kenya

▲ 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 Change1,810▲ 1.98×120 topics
  2. Sustainability1,751▲ 2.1×122 topics
  3. Epidemiology1,518◆ 1.13×136 topics
  4. Globalization1,252▲ 1.90×144 topics
  5. Supply Chain Management1,068▲ 3.5×25 topics
  6. Innovation1,016▲ 2.9×76 topics
  7. Poverty Reduction982▲ 22×6 topics
  8. Risk Management961▲ 6.0×17 topics
  9. Social Capital923▲ 5.3×20 topics
  10. Sustainable Development899▲ 1.71×96 topics
  11. Education894▲ 1.55×120 topics
  12. Economic Growth864▲ 3.1×32 topics
  13. Leadership820▲ 5.0×33 topics
  14. Corporate Governance798▲ 3.2×29 topics
  15. Development713▲ 5.9×20 topics
  16. Economic Development671▲ 2.5×50 topics
  17. Gender Equality655▲ 6.9×19 topics
  18. Sustainable Agriculture606▲ 5.8×16 topics
  19. Gender Inequality578▲ 12×7 topics
  20. Food Security577▲ 3.2×25 topics
  21. Smallholder Farmers569▲ 8.0×6 topics
  22. Social Networks560▲ 6.1×13 topics
  23. Community Health Workers555▲ 19×2 topics
  24. Rural Development550▲ 4.8×21 topics
  25. Adaptation547▲ 5.5×15 topics
  26. Maternal Mortality542▲ 7.2×5 topics
  27. Performance Measurement483▲ 5.4×7 topics
  28. Health Inequalities478▲ 12×5 topics
  29. Social Protection469▲ 31×2 topics
  30. Primary Education469▲ 35×2 topics
  31. Conditional Cash Transfers469▲ 39×1 topic
  32. School Subsidies469▲ 39×1 topic
  33. Socio-economic Factors463▲ 12×3 topics
  34. Child Mortality458▲ 19×1 topic
  35. Health Systems458▲ 19×1 topic
  36. Empowerment383▲ 12×6 topics
  37. Financial Constraints374▲ 11×2 topics
  38. Poverty Alleviation365▲ 11×3 topics
  39. Financial Inclusion365▲ 21×1 topic
  40. Microfinance365▲ 21×1 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?

Kenya has out-published the Gambia every year since 1980.

still counting5k10kKenya7,818 in 2025Gambia246 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 counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Kenya0.13% in 2025Gambia0.0042% 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%Gambia11.5% in 2025Kenya6.3% 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.

Gambia 05 level0 Kenya
  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, Gambia or Kenya?

Kenya publishes 37.0× as much research as the Gambia in 2022-now (29k against 793 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Gambia or Kenya?

11.2% of the Gambia's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.7% for Kenya.

Is Gambia or Kenya growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +58% against 2018-21 for the Gambia, and +28% for Kenya.

Which has more open access research, Gambia or Kenya?

73% of the Gambia's research is free to read, against 70% of Kenya's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Gambia or Kenya?

The Gambia holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Kenya 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%.

Gambia

  1. 1University of the Gambia11.0% top 10% · 341 works
  2. 2Euclid University9.8% top 10% · 76 works

Kenya

  1. 1Kenya Medical Research Institute12.2% top 10% · 708 works
  2. 2University of Nairobi4.8% top 10% · 3.1k works
  3. 3Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology3.7% top 10% · 2.4k works
  4. 4Moi University4.9% top 10% · 1.2k works
  5. 5Kisii University4.7% top 10% · 571 works
  6. 6Kenyatta University3.1% top 10% · 2.9k 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.

Gambia

  1. 1 Amadou Barrow #15,664 worldwide 47k citations · 170 works
  2. 2 Kris A. Murray #30,005 worldwide 21k citations · 210 works
  3. 3 Kalifa Bojang #75,209 worldwide 13k citations · 189 works
  4. 4 Sophie E. Moore #84,737 worldwide 16k citations · 416 works
  5. 5 Martín Antonio #89,709 worldwide 24k citations · 365 works

Kenya

  1. 1 Robert William Snow #6,135 worldwide 58k citations · 677 works
  2. 2 Edwine Barasa #13,107 worldwide 9.2k citations · 311 works
  3. 3 Kevin Marsh #18,105 worldwide 58k citations · 689 works
  4. 4 J. Anthony G. Scott #24,316 worldwide 21k citations · 396 works
  5. 5 Menale B. Kassie #24,373 worldwide 14k citations · 263 works