Ghana vs Namibia
On research quality in 2022-now, Ghana ranks #58 in the world and Namibia #93, of 189 countries. Ghana stands higher in 19 of the 19 fields both publish in, Namibia in 0.
Research profiles alike: 0.89very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured
Compare other countries
Ghana
- World rank, 2022-now
- #58
- #68 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 27k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 10.8%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 65%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Library and Information Sciences, Horticulture, Research and Theory.
Namibia
- World rank, 2022-now
- #93
- #111 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 2.3k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 6.2%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 57%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Research and Theory, Archeology, Library and Information Sciences.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Ghana leads on 6 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, citations per work and open access. Namibia leads on 1 of 9 measures: international co-authorship. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100 and growth.
- #58Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#93
- 1.00×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.93×
- 27kOutputfractional works, 2022-now2.3k
- 10.8%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.2%
- 12.1Citations per workall time, per fractional work9.1
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 65%Open accessof its works free to read, all time57%
- 33%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time38%
- +42%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?
Ghana stands higher in 19 of 19 fields, Namibia in 0. Ghana leads most in Environmental Science (#52 against #95). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- #43Agricultural and Biological Sciences-
- #55Arts and Humanities-
- #61Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-
- #46Business, Management and Accounting-
- #62Computer Science#81
- #45Decision Sciences-
- #58Earth and Planetary Sciences-
- #41Economics, Econometrics and Finance-
- #57Energy-
- #72Engineering-
- #52Environmental Science#95
- #42Health Professions-
- #40Immunology and Microbiology-
- #70Materials Science-
- #60Mathematics-
- #58Medicine#95
- #40Nursing-
- #58Psychology-
- #59Social Sciences#93
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 | Ghana rank | Namibia rank | Ghana top 10% | Namibia top 10% | Ghana works | Namibia works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | #43 | - | 11.0% | - | 2.3k | - |
| Arts and Humanities | #55 | - | 11.5% | - | 746 | - |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | #61 | - | 9.3% | - | 637 | - |
| Business, Management and Accounting | #46 | - | 12.9% | - | 2.3k | - |
| Computer Science | #62 | #81 | 10.8% | 4.4% | 1.4k | 210 |
| Decision Sciences | #45 | - | 9.5% | - | 458 | - |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | #58 | - | 11.4% | - | 207 | - |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | #41 | - | 13.1% | - | 1.6k | - |
| Energy | #57 | - | 9.8% | - | 235 | - |
| Engineering | #72 | - | 8.0% | - | 1.7k | - |
| Environmental Science | #52 | #95 | 9.1% | 6.0% | 1.9k | 208 |
| Health Professions | #42 | - | 13.2% | - | 1.1k | - |
| Immunology and Microbiology | #40 | - | 12.1% | - | 295 | - |
| Materials Science | #70 | - | 7.5% | - | 206 | - |
| Mathematics | #60 | - | 11.1% | - | 277 | - |
| Medicine | #58 | #95 | 10.1% | 6.8% | 4.3k | 240 |
| Nursing | #40 | - | 11.6% | - | 396 | - |
| Psychology | #58 | - | 8.7% | - | 1k | - |
| Social Sciences | #59 | #93 | 11.6% | 6.1% | 5k | 482 |
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.
Ghana
- Institutional Quality
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition
- Vulnerability
- Global Burden of Disease
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Governance
- Smallholder Farmers
- Child Mortality
- Leadership
- Urbanization
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Consumer Behavior
- Corporate Governance
- Supply Chain Management
- Mental Health
- Social Capital
- Education
- Renewable Energy
- Globalization
- Sustainability
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Environmental Impact
- Sustainable Development
- Economic Growth
- Public Health
- Risk Management
- Maternal Mortality
- Poverty Reduction
- Community Health Workers
- Health Inequalities
- Child Development
- Socio-economic Factors
- Health Systems
- Social Networks
- Development
- Gender Inequality
- Poverty Alleviation
- ICT
- Water Sanitation Hygiene
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology1,614▲ 1.30×136 topics
- Sustainability1,476▲ 1.93×109 topics
- Climate Change1,179▲ 1.39×111 topics
- Globalization1,054▲ 1.72×132 topics
- Environmental Impact932▲ 1.75×67 topics
- Renewable Energy815▲ 1.80×53 topics
- Sustainable Development808▲ 1.65×89 topics
- Education786▲ 1.46×101 topics
- Economic Growth786▲ 3.1×34 topics
- Social Capital700▲ 4.3×21 topics
- Public Health690▲ 1.52×65 topics
- Mental Health661▲ 1.48×43 topics
- Risk Management650▲ 4.4×18 topics
- Supply Chain Management597▲ 2.1×26 topics
- Maternal Mortality544▲ 7.8×5 topics
- Corporate Governance529▲ 2.3×27 topics
- Poverty Reduction517▲ 13×7 topics
- Consumer Behavior514▲ 2.6×18 topics
- Community Health Workers479▲ 17×2 topics
- Biodiversity Conservation456▲ 3.9×17 topics
- Health Inequalities456▲ 12×5 topics
- Urbanization456▲ 3.6×13 topics
- Child Development449▲ 3.5×8 topics
- Leadership447▲ 2.9×35 topics
- Socio-economic Factors435▲ 12×3 topics
- Child Mortality432▲ 19×1 topic
- Health Systems432▲ 19×1 topic
- Smallholder Farmers429▲ 6.5×6 topics
- Social Networks417▲ 4.9×13 topics
- Governance412▲ 4.0×15 topics
- Development397▲ 3.6×19 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture395▲ 4.1×15 topics
- Gender Inequality381▲ 8.8×6 topics
- Global Burden of Disease372▲ 4.8×4 topics
- Poverty Alleviation372▲ 12×3 topics
- Vulnerability370▲ 5.1×8 topics
- ICT305▲ 7.3×5 topics
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition305▲ 12×1 topic
- Water Sanitation Hygiene305▲ 12×1 topic
- Institutional Quality302▲ 9.2×3 topics
Namibia
- Gender Inequality
- Language Policy
- Animal Movement
- Multilingualism
- Poverty Reduction
- Community Health Workers
- Rural Development
- Job Satisfaction
- Colonialism
- Biodiversity
- Technology Integration
- Economic Development
- Social Capital
- Big Data
- Healthcare
- Renewable Energy
- Higher Education
- Artificial Intelligence
- Globalization
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Education
- Sustainable Development
- Mental Health
- Internet of Things
- Educational Technology
- Supply Chain Management
- Innovation
- Economic Growth
- Leadership
- Population Dynamics
- Lifelong Learning
- Habitat Selection
- Cloud Computing
- Trophic Cascades
- Student Perceptions
- Bilingual Education
- Occupancy Rates
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Climate Change142▲ 1.98×86 topics
- Sustainability137▲ 2.1×77 topics
- Machine Learning109▲ 1.25×64 topics
- Globalization101▲ 1.96×83 topics
- Deep Learning88◆ 0.97×63 topics
- Artificial Intelligence71▲ 1.89×38 topics
- Education66▲ 1.47×58 topics
- Higher Education65▲ 4.6×23 topics
- Sustainable Development65▲ 1.57×59 topics
- Renewable Energy62▲ 1.62×36 topics
- Mental Health60▲ 1.60×35 topics
- Healthcare59▲ 1.97×21 topics
- Internet of Things59▲ 2.6×22 topics
- Big Data58▲ 2.3×22 topics
- Educational Technology56▲ 1.80×29 topics
- Social Capital54▲ 4.0×17 topics
- Supply Chain Management54▲ 2.3×17 topics
- Economic Development50▲ 2.4×23 topics
- Innovation50▲ 1.82×44 topics
- Technology Integration48▲ 5.8×12 topics
- Economic Growth47▲ 2.2×26 topics
- Biodiversity46▲ 2.3×30 topics
- Leadership42▲ 3.2×21 topics
- Colonialism40▲ 3.2×16 topics
- Population Dynamics40▲ 5.8×10 topics
- Job Satisfaction39▲ 3.4×14 topics
- Lifelong Learning39▲ 7.2×9 topics
- Rural Development37▲ 4.1×13 topics
- Habitat Selection33▲ 17×2 topics
- Community Health Workers33▲ 14×2 topics
- Cloud Computing32▲ 4.3×12 topics
- Poverty Reduction32▲ 9.2×6 topics
- Trophic Cascades31▲ 13×2 topics
- Multilingualism31▲ 7.3×4 topics
- Student Perceptions28▲ 5.9×7 topics
- Animal Movement27▲ 20×1 topic
- Bilingual Education27▲ 8.9×3 topics
- Language Policy27▲ 7.4×3 topics
- Occupancy Rates27▲ 20×1 topic
- Gender Inequality24▲ 6.6×6 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?
Ghana has out-published Namibia every year since 1980.
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, Ghana or Namibia?
Ghana publishes 11.6× as much research as Namibia in 2022-now (27k against 2.3k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Ghana or Namibia?
10.8% of Ghana's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.2% for Namibia.
Is Ghana or Namibia growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +43% against 2018-21 for Namibia, and +42% for Ghana.
Which has more open access research, Ghana or Namibia?
65% of Ghana's research is free to read, against 57% of Namibia's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Ghana or Namibia?
Ghana holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Namibia 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%.
Ghana
- 1University of Ghana11.0% top 10% · 5.3k works
- 2University of Cape Coast12.8% top 10% · 2.8k works
- 3Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology10.8% top 10% · 4.5k works
- 4University for Development Studies11.1% top 10% · 1.9k works
- 5University of Education, Winneba8.0% top 10% · 1.4k works
- 6Takoradi Technical University13.8% top 10% · 404 works
Namibia
- 1University of Namibia5.5% top 10% · 1.4k works
- 2Namibia University of Science and Technology7.0% top 10% · 641 works
- 3International University of Management6.6% top 10% · 111 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.
Ghana
- 1 Richard Gyan Aboagye #22,347 worldwide 39k citations · 250 works
- 2 Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah #27,882 worldwide 4.7k citations · 132 works
- 3 Martin Amogre Ayanore #33,207 worldwide 54k citations · 181 works
- 4 Robert Kokou Dowou #33,244 worldwide 25k citations · 109 works
- 5 Hubert Amu #37,771 worldwide 49k citations · 190 works
Namibia
- 1 Michael Sony #63,785 worldwide 6.2k citations · 191 works
- 2 Uchendu Eugene Chigbu #104,490 worldwide 2.1k citations · 87 works
- 3 Gillian Maggs‐Kölling #275,971 worldwide 2.7k citations · 102 works
- 4 Mary Seely #392,753 worldwide 5.9k citations · 164 works
- 5 Subhash S. Naik #540,111 worldwide 2k citations · 20 works