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Georgia vs Kyrgyzstan

On research quality in 2022-now, Georgia ranks #120 in the world and Kyrgyzstan #142, of 189 countries. Georgia stands higher in 9 of the 15 fields both publish in, Kyrgyzstan in 6.

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Georgia

World rank, 2022-now
#120
#129 all time
Works, 2022-now
11k
fractional
Top-10% rate
3.6%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
55%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: General Energy, Classics, Archeology.

Kyrgyzstan

World rank, 2022-now
#142
#162 all time
Works, 2022-now
6.4k
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.1%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
73%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Anatomy, Fuel Technology, Archeology.

Who leads, measure by measure?

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

Georgia 41 level4 Kyrgyzstan
  1. #120Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#142
  2. 0.40×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.41×
  3. 11kOutputfractional works, 2022-now6.4k
  4. 3.6%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.1%
  5. 5.0Citations per workall time, per fractional work2.6
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 55%Open accessof its works free to read, all time73%
  8. 26%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time25%
  9. +81%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+87%

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?

Georgia stands higher in 9 of 15 fields, Kyrgyzstan in 6. Georgia leads most in Medicine (#108 against #145); Kyrgyzstan leads most in Business, Management and Accounting (#80 against #101). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Georgia 96 Kyrgyzstan
  1. #92Agricultural and Biological Sciences#115
  2. #91Arts and Humanities#74
  3. #94Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-
  4. #101Business, Management and Accounting#80
  5. #122Computer Science#116
  6. #59Earth and Planetary Sciences-
  7. #69Economics, Econometrics and Finance#84
  8. #117Engineering#119
  9. #113Environmental Science#101
  10. #100Health Professions-
  11. #78Mathematics-
  12. #108Medicine#145
  13. #54Physics and Astronomy-
  14. #93Psychology#86
  15. #106Social Sciences#80

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 Georgia rankKyrgyzstan rank Georgia top 10%Kyrgyzstan top 10% Georgia worksKyrgyzstan works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #92 #115 1.9% 5.4% 1k 276
Arts and Humanities #91 #74 2.6% 9.5% 883 373
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #94 - 3.5% - 410 -
Business, Management and Accounting #101 #80 3.8% 7.5% 352 222
Computer Science #122 #116 4.0% 4.0% 421 503
Earth and Planetary Sciences #59 - 3.7% - 207 -
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #69 #84 6.6% 6.4% 846 309
Engineering #117 #119 4.0% 3.4% 597 455
Environmental Science #113 #101 5.0% 4.1% 366 229
Health Professions #100 - 3.5% - 209 -
Mathematics #78 - 3.2% - 251 -
Medicine #108 #145 3.6% 2.7% 1.5k 1k
Physics and Astronomy #54 - 4.4% - 208 -
Psychology #93 #86 2.8% 3.3% 283 220
Social Sciences #106 #80 3.6% 7.0% 2.4k 1.9k

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.

Georgia

▲ 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. Globalization1,176▲ 4.8×126 topics
  2. Innovation819▲ 6.4×66 topics
  3. Economic Development692▲ 7.0×45 topics
  4. Sustainability667▲ 2.2×104 topics
  5. Climate Change618▲ 1.83×109 topics
  6. Sustainable Development519▲ 2.7×90 topics
  7. Labor Market493▲ 14×17 topics
  8. Medicinal Plants472▲ 9.8×18 topics
  9. Agriculture471▲ 10.0×13 topics
  10. Human Capital441▲ 23×10 topics
  11. Financial Crisis412▲ 30×13 topics
  12. Education410▲ 1.92×94 topics
  13. Artificial Intelligence396▲ 2.2×51 topics
  14. Post-Communist Countries380▲ 199×1 topic
  15. Trade Relations380▲ 199×1 topic
  16. Human Rights355▲ 2.8×76 topics
  17. Migration318▲ 7.5×30 topics
  18. Antioxidant291▲ 3.4×50 topics
  19. Digital Transformation272▲ 4.1×27 topics
  20. Language269▲ 8.8×14 topics
  21. Linguistics247▲ 13×7 topics
  22. Herbal Medicine232▲ 6.7×13 topics
  23. Biogeography230▲ 6.7×20 topics
  24. Regional Development228▲ 5.4×19 topics
  25. Phylogeny225▲ 11×17 topics
  26. Drug Discovery205▲ 7.4×12 topics
  27. Economy197▲ 21×4 topics
  28. International Relations189▲ 6.3×28 topics
  29. Phytochemical Constituents188▲ 49×2 topics
  30. Ethnobotanical Survey187▲ 47×1 topic
  31. Traditional Ecological Knowledge187▲ 35×1 topic
  32. Political Economy180▲ 5.7×17 topics
  33. Etymology174▲ 30×2 topics
  34. Historical Phonology174▲ 30×2 topics
  35. Russia172▲ 33×3 topics
  36. Sovereignty170▲ 15×9 topics
  37. Nation-Building168▲ 25×4 topics
  38. Taxonomy162▲ 9.0×15 topics
  39. Central Asia159▲ 18×4 topics
  40. Geopolitics156▲ 8.3×11 topics

Kyrgyzstan

▲ 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. Education583▲ 4.3×88 topics
  2. Globalization536▲ 3.5×103 topics
  3. Sustainable Development521▲ 4.3×91 topics
  4. Innovation487▲ 6.1×59 topics
  5. Educational Technology440▲ 4.8×42 topics
  6. Pedagogy407▲ 10×17 topics
  7. Sustainability373▲ 1.96×98 topics
  8. E-Learning359▲ 4.8×23 topics
  9. Climate Change352▲ 1.66×107 topics
  10. Online Learning304▲ 4.7×23 topics
  11. Digital Education302▲ 26×6 topics
  12. Digital Economy282▲ 18×17 topics
  13. Artificial Intelligence280▲ 2.5×61 topics
  14. Economic Development279▲ 4.5×38 topics
  15. Educational Technologies274▲ 39×2 topics
  16. Public Health272▲ 2.4×57 topics
  17. Language Teaching267▲ 13×8 topics
  18. Social Media256▲ 2.4×32 topics
  19. Teacher Training255▲ 5.3×21 topics
  20. Central Asia253▲ 46×4 topics
  21. Tourism Development246▲ 23×2 topics
  22. Teaching Methods241▲ 19×10 topics
  23. Critical Thinking237▲ 26×4 topics
  24. International Relations237▲ 13×25 topics
  25. Entrepreneurship235▲ 7.6×14 topics
  26. Formative Assessment233▲ 36×2 topics
  27. Artistic Education232▲ 46×1 topic
  28. Student Competencies232▲ 46×1 topic
  29. Cultural Diplomacy224▲ 35×5 topics
  30. Digital Transformation222▲ 5.3×26 topics
  31. Migration219▲ 8.2×22 topics
  32. Geopolitics214▲ 18×10 topics
  33. Security205▲ 3.9×26 topics
  34. Distance Learning205▲ 7.6×10 topics
  35. Digitalization203▲ 13×13 topics
  36. Language192▲ 9.9×11 topics
  37. Belt and Road Initiative182▲ 61×3 topics
  38. Soft Power146▲ 46×3 topics
  39. Eurasian integration142▲ 153×1 topic
  40. Russia-China cooperation142▲ 153×1 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?

Georgia has out-published Kyrgyzstan every year since 1980.

still counting2k4kGeorgia3,329 in 2025Kyrgyzstan2,414 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 counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Georgia0.057% in 2025Kyrgyzstan0.041% 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 counting5%10%15%Kyrgyzstan5.1% in 2025Georgia3.5% 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.

Georgia 05 level0 Kyrgyzstan
  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, Georgia or Kyrgyzstan?

Georgia publishes 1.7× as much research as Kyrgyzstan in 2022-now (11k against 6.4k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Georgia or Kyrgyzstan?

5.1% of Kyrgyzstan's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 3.6% for Georgia.

Is Georgia or Kyrgyzstan growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +87% against 2018-21 for Kyrgyzstan, and +81% for Georgia.

Which has more open access research, Georgia or Kyrgyzstan?

73% of Kyrgyzstan's research is free to read, against 55% of Georgia's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Georgia or Kyrgyzstan?

Georgia holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Kyrgyzstan 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%.

Georgia

  1. 1Ilia State University3.6% top 10% · 1.6k works
  2. 2Tbilisi State University3.4% top 10% · 2.1k works
  3. 3Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University4.5% top 10% · 649 works
  4. 4International Black Sea University6.3% top 10% · 261 works
  5. 5University of Georgia14.7% top 10% · 218 works
  6. 6Georgian Technical University2.1% top 10% · 1.1k works

Kyrgyzstan

  1. 1Kyrgyz State National University2.5% top 10% · 1.2k works
  2. 2Kyrgyz-Türkish Manas Üniversity8.5% top 10% · 716 works
  3. 3Osh State University4.4% top 10% · 914 works
  4. 4Aga Khan Foundation6.4% top 10% · 285 works
  5. 5University of Central Asia12.5% top 10% · 219 works
  6. 6International University of Kyrgyzstan6.7% top 10% · 311 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.

Georgia

  1. 1 F. Chlebana #33,051 worldwide 6k citations · 76 works
  2. 2 David Lordkipanidze #43,553 worldwide 8.8k citations · 168 works
  3. 3 J. Sturdy #43,642 worldwide 6.3k citations · 89 works
  4. 4 A. Petrilli #45,877 worldwide 3.4k citations · 55 works
  5. 5 K. Sung #50,952 worldwide 7.7k citations · 100 works

Kyrgyzstan

  1. 1 Erkin Mirsaidovich Mirrakhimov #910 worldwide 238k citations · 309 works
  2. 2 Alina S Kerimkulova #184,365 worldwide 54k citations · 73 works
  3. 3 Kashif Hasan Khan #402,554 worldwide 217 citations · 36 works
  4. 4 Kubatbek Sh. Tabaldiev #510,674 worldwide 2.5k citations · 44 works
  5. 5 Ayman Aljarbouh #536,372 worldwide 1.2k citations · 66 works