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Gambia vs Oman

On research quality in 2022-now, The Gambia ranks #87 in the world and Oman #90, of 189 countries. The Gambia stands higher in 1 of the 14 fields both publish in, Oman in 13.

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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.

Oman

World rank, 2022-now
#90
#101 all time
Works, 2022-now
12k
fractional
Top-10% rate
11.1%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
51%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Research and Theory, Health Informatics, Energy Engineering and Power Technology.

Who leads, measure by measure?

The Gambia leads on 6 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, citations per work, open access, international co-authorship and growth. Oman leads on 1 of 9 measures: output. The two are level on top-10% rate and institutions in the world top 100.

Gambia 62 level1 Oman
  1. #87Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#90
  2. 1.30×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.85×
  3. 793Outputfractional works, 2022-now12k
  4. 11.2%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited11.1%
  5. 25.5Citations per workall time, per fractional work12.8
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 73%Open accessof its works free to read, all time51%
  8. 44%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time37%
  9. +58%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?

Gambia stands higher in 1 of 14 fields, Oman in 13. The Gambia leads most in Medicine (#51 against #121). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Gambia 113 Oman
  1. -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#91
  2. -Arts and Humanities#83
  3. -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#74
  4. -Business, Management and Accounting#61
  5. -Computer Science#70
  6. -Decision Sciences#65
  7. -Economics, Econometrics and Finance#73
  8. -Engineering#70
  9. -Environmental Science#73
  10. -Health Professions#83
  11. -Materials Science#69
  12. #51Medicine#121
  13. -Psychology#75
  14. -Social Sciences#99

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 rankOman rank Gambia top 10%Oman top 10% Gambia worksOman works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences - #91 - 16.0% - 471
Arts and Humanities - #83 - 12.8% - 262
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - #74 - 8.2% - 361
Business, Management and Accounting - #61 - 16.6% - 826
Computer Science - #70 - 12.0% - 1.2k
Decision Sciences - #65 - 13.9% - 203
Economics, Econometrics and Finance - #73 - 15.2% - 360
Engineering - #70 - 9.9% - 1.8k
Environmental Science - #73 - 12.6% - 580
Health Professions - #83 - 12.8% - 294
Materials Science - #69 - 10.1% - 255
Medicine #51 #121 13.4% 6.5% 260 2.1k
Psychology - #75 - 10.8% - 389
Social Sciences - #99 - 12.2% - 1.3k

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

Oman

▲ 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. Machine Learning975▲ 2.1×94 topics
  2. Deep Learning626▲ 1.33×83 topics
  3. Epidemiology490◆ 0.90×133 topics
  4. Sustainability473▲ 1.42×94 topics
  5. Healthcare439▲ 2.8×33 topics
  6. Renewable Energy439▲ 2.2×50 topics
  7. Supply Chain Management400▲ 3.3×25 topics
  8. Artificial Intelligence348▲ 1.79×53 topics
  9. Education336▲ 1.43×84 topics
  10. Environmental Impact312▲ 1.34×61 topics
  11. Internet of Things284▲ 2.4×30 topics
  12. Online Learning271▲ 2.4×23 topics
  13. Big Data266▲ 2.0×32 topics
  14. Educational Technology263▲ 1.63×39 topics
  15. Digital Transformation237▲ 3.2×24 topics
  16. IoT225▲ 4.4×19 topics
  17. Smart Cities224▲ 6.2×8 topics
  18. E-Learning222▲ 1.68×23 topics
  19. Corporate Governance212▲ 2.1×27 topics
  20. Security212▲ 2.3×28 topics
  21. Social Capital200▲ 2.8×17 topics
  22. Risk Management199▲ 3.1×17 topics
  23. Energy Efficiency198▲ 1.57×42 topics
  24. Customer Satisfaction193▲ 4.4×10 topics
  25. Knowledge Management185▲ 2.4×27 topics
  26. Organizational Performance179▲ 5.0×12 topics
  27. Technology Integration174▲ 4.0×12 topics
  28. Consumer Behavior174▲ 2.0×18 topics
  29. Student Engagement172▲ 3.2×17 topics
  30. Higher Education158▲ 2.2×27 topics
  31. Human Resource Management155▲ 7.3×6 topics
  32. Social Networks150▲ 4.1×12 topics
  33. Student Satisfaction142▲ 5.7×3 topics
  34. Localization124▲ 7.6×4 topics
  35. Social Media Marketing123▲ 18×1 topic
  36. Guanxi116▲ 40×1 topic
  37. Wasta116▲ 40×1 topic
  38. Learning Analytics96▲ 5.8×3 topics
  39. Educational Data Mining87▲ 7.5×1 topic
  40. Massive Open Online Courses87▲ 7.5×1 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?

Oman has out-published the Gambia every year since 1990, when it overtook it.

still counting2k4kOman3,679 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 counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Oman0.063% 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%Oman11.6% in 2025Gambia11.5% 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 Oman
  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 Oman?

Oman publishes 14.6× as much research as the Gambia in 2022-now (12k against 793 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Gambia or Oman?

11.2% of the Gambia's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 11.1% for Oman.

Is Gambia or Oman growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +58% against 2018-21 for the Gambia, and +49% for Oman.

Which has more open access research, Gambia or Oman?

73% of the Gambia's research is free to read, against 51% of Oman's.

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

The Gambia holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Oman 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

Oman

  1. 1Sohar University15.8% top 10% · 836 works
  2. 2Sultan Qaboos University11.4% top 10% · 3.9k works
  3. 3Dhofar University18.0% top 10% · 659 works
  4. 4College of Applied Sciences, Nizwa13.1% top 10% · 634 works
  5. 5Muscat College7.5% top 10% · 948 works
  6. 6University of Nizwa14.7% top 10% · 832 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

Oman

  1. 1 Ali Tarhini #6,779 worldwide 11k citations · 160 works
  2. 2 S. K. Maurya #12,340 worldwide 9k citations · 388 works
  3. 3 Walid Mensi #15,702 worldwide 12k citations · 242 works
  4. 4 Sathish Kumar Jayapal #16,435 worldwide 54k citations · 90 works
  5. 5 Ala'a Hamed Al-Muhtaseb #17,011 worldwide 22k citations · 276 works