Gambia vs Somalia
On research quality in 2022-now, The Gambia ranks #87 in the world and Somalia #146, of 189 countries. The Gambia stands higher in 1 of the 2 fields both publish in, Somalia in 1.
Research profiles alike: 0.86very 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.
Somalia
- World rank, 2022-now
- #146
- #183 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 2.5k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 10.2%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 81%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Who leads, measure by measure?
The Gambia leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, top-10% rate and citations per work. Somalia leads on 4 of 9 measures: output, open access, international co-authorship and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.
- #87Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#146
- 1.30×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.71×
- 793Outputfractional works, 2022-now2.5k
- 11.2%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited10.2%
- 25.5Citations per workall time, per fractional work4.8
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 73%Open accessof its works free to read, all time81%
- 44%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time50%
- +58%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+194%
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 2 fields, Somalia in 1. The Gambia leads most in Medicine (#51 against #126). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- #51Medicine#126
- -Social Sciences#117
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 rank | Somalia rank | Gambia top 10% | Somalia top 10% | Gambia works | Somalia works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine | #51 | #126 | 13.4% | 5.7% | 260 | 959 |
| Social Sciences | - | #117 | - | 14.5% | - | 413 |
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
- Infertility
- Global Health
- Artemisinin Resistance
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition
- Genome Sequence
- Governance
- Global Warming
- Risk Management
- Global Burden of Disease
- Health Systems
- Socio-economic Factors
- Vulnerability
- Child Development
- Pathogenesis
- Maternal Mortality
- COVID-19
- Public Health
- Global Burden
- Globalization
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Economic Growth
- Immune Response
- Vaccine
- Vaccine Development
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Infectious Diseases
- Community Health Workers
- Health Inequalities
- Child Mortality
- Social Capital
- Insecticide Resistance
- Adaptation
- Poverty Reduction
- Risk Perception
- Development
- Water Sanitation Hygiene
- Plasmodium falciparum
- Respiratory Infections
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology113▲ 2.9×97 topics
- Climate Change50▲ 1.84×62 topics
- Sustainability33▲ 1.35×49 topics
- Globalization32▲ 1.66×41 topics
- Economic Growth32▲ 4.0×19 topics
- Global Burden32▲ 5.8×12 topics
- Immune Response31▲ 5.4×17 topics
- Public Health30▲ 2.1×41 topics
- Vaccine29▲ 7.4×11 topics
- COVID-1928▲ 2.2×21 topics
- Vaccine Development28▲ 11×9 topics
- Maternal Mortality25▲ 11×5 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease24▲ 2.1×28 topics
- Pathogenesis23▲ 4.5×20 topics
- Infectious Diseases22▲ 6.8×9 topics
- Child Development19▲ 4.7×7 topics
- Community Health Workers19▲ 22×2 topics
- Vulnerability19▲ 8.2×6 topics
- Health Inequalities19▲ 16×3 topics
- Socio-economic Factors18▲ 17×2 topics
- Child Mortality18▲ 25×1 topic
- Health Systems18▲ 25×1 topic
- Social Capital18▲ 3.4×12 topics
- Global Burden of Disease16▲ 6.7×4 topics
- Insecticide Resistance16▲ 20×4 topics
- Risk Management16▲ 3.4×8 topics
- Adaptation15▲ 5.1×7 topics
- Global Warming15▲ 3.5×9 topics
- Poverty Reduction15▲ 11×4 topics
- Governance14▲ 4.4×8 topics
- Risk Perception14▲ 5.3×6 topics
- Genome Sequence14▲ 17×3 topics
- Development14▲ 3.9×14 topics
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition13▲ 17×1 topic
- Water Sanitation Hygiene13▲ 17×1 topic
- Artemisinin Resistance13▲ 41×1 topic
- Plasmodium falciparum13▲ 41×1 topic
- Global Health12▲ 7.6×5 topics
- Respiratory Infections12▲ 10×3 topics
- Infertility10▲ 7.3×4 topics
Somalia
- Respiratory Infections
- Global Health
- Water Sanitation Hygiene
- Agriculture
- Global Burden of Disease
- Mortality
- Global Burden
- Risk Management
- Management
- Child Mortality
- Pathogenesis
- Vaccine
- Community Health Workers
- Education
- Risk Factors
- Renewable Energy
- Treatment
- Public Health
- Sustainability
- Globalization
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Economic Growth
- Inflammation
- Maternal Mortality
- Diagnosis
- COVID-19
- Immune Response
- Health Inequalities
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Socio-economic Factors
- Health Systems
- Child Development
- Poverty Reduction
- Food Security
- Governance
- Vulnerability
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition
- Conflict
- Gender Inequality
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology316▲ 2.4×129 topics
- Globalization122▲ 1.90×80 topics
- Climate Change118▲ 1.32×67 topics
- Sustainability107▲ 1.34×62 topics
- Economic Growth100▲ 3.8×23 topics
- Public Health96▲ 2.0×57 topics
- Inflammation94▲ 1.36×73 topics
- Treatment92▲ 2.3×51 topics
- Maternal Mortality90▲ 12×5 topics
- Renewable Energy86▲ 1.81×33 topics
- Diagnosis82▲ 2.7×41 topics
- Risk Factors82▲ 2.3×36 topics
- COVID-1979▲ 1.85×31 topics
- Education77▲ 1.37×69 topics
- Immune Response70▲ 3.8×20 topics
- Community Health Workers69▲ 24×2 topics
- Health Inequalities69▲ 17×4 topics
- Vaccine69▲ 5.3×11 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease69▲ 1.84×37 topics
- Pathogenesis66▲ 3.9×24 topics
- Socio-economic Factors64▲ 18×2 topics
- Child Mortality64▲ 27×1 topic
- Health Systems64▲ 27×1 topic
- Management64▲ 2.4×32 topics
- Child Development60▲ 4.4×8 topics
- Risk Management57▲ 3.7×12 topics
- Poverty Reduction57▲ 13×5 topics
- Global Burden55▲ 3.1×12 topics
- Food Security52▲ 2.9×15 topics
- Mortality51▲ 2.7×13 topics
- Governance48▲ 4.5×13 topics
- Global Burden of Disease46▲ 5.6×4 topics
- Vulnerability45▲ 5.9×5 topics
- Agriculture45▲ 3.6×12 topics
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition42▲ 16×1 topic
- Water Sanitation Hygiene42▲ 16×1 topic
- Conflict40▲ 7.5×10 topics
- Global Health35▲ 6.9×6 topics
- Gender Inequality34▲ 7.4×5 topics
- Respiratory Infections33▲ 8.8×3 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?
Somalia has out-published the Gambia every year since 2015, 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, Gambia or Somalia?
Somalia publishes 3.2× as much research as the Gambia in 2022-now (2.5k against 793 fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Gambia or Somalia?
11.2% of the Gambia's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 10.2% for Somalia.
Is Gambia or Somalia growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +194% against 2018-21 for Somalia, and +58% for the Gambia.
Which has more open access research, Gambia or Somalia?
81% of Somalia's research is free to read, against 73% of the Gambia's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Gambia or Somalia?
The Gambia holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Somalia 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
- 1University of the Gambia11.0% top 10% · 341 works
- 2Euclid University9.8% top 10% · 76 works
Somalia
- 1SIMAD University20.2% top 10% · 423 works
- 2Somali National University13.1% top 10% · 179 works
- 3University of Somalia8.9% top 10% · 139 works
- 4Jamhuriya University of Science and Technology21.2% top 10% · 128 works
- 5Mogadishu University10.0% top 10% · 153 works
- 6Amoud University17.8% top 10% · 94 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 Amadou Barrow #15,664 worldwide 47k citations · 170 works
- 2 Kris A. Murray #30,005 worldwide 21k citations · 210 works
- 3 Kalifa Bojang #75,209 worldwide 13k citations · 189 works
- 4 Sophie E. Moore #84,737 worldwide 16k citations · 416 works
- 5 Martín Antonio #89,709 worldwide 24k citations · 365 works
Somalia
- 1 Jama Mohamed #49,156 worldwide 20k citations · 51 works
- 2 Abdikafi Hassan Abdi #80,606 worldwide 681 citations · 53 works
- 3 Abdimalik Ali Warsame #155,996 worldwide 1.2k citations · 67 works
- 4 Ahmed Ismail Mohamed #279,065 worldwide 9.3k citations · 42 works
- 5 Bashir Mohamed Osman #336,096 worldwide 1.3k citations · 28 works