Ghana vs Sri Lanka
On research quality in 2022-now, Ghana ranks #58 in the world and Sri Lanka #96, of 189 countries. Ghana stands higher in 19 of the 20 fields both publish in, Sri Lanka in 1.
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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.
Sri Lanka
- World rank, 2022-now
- #96
- #99 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 21k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 5.9%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 60%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Archeology, Space and Planetary Science, Paleontology.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Ghana leads on 8 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, citations per work, open access, international co-authorship and growth. Sri Lanka leads on none. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.
- #58Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#96
- 1.00×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.52×
- 27kOutputfractional works, 2022-now21k
- 10.8%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.9%
- 12.1Citations per workall time, per fractional work9.3
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 65%Open accessof its works free to read, all time60%
- 33%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time22%
- +42%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+16%
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 20 fields, Sri Lanka in 1. Ghana leads most in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (#41 against #97). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- #43Agricultural and Biological Sciences#87
- #55Arts and Humanities#85
- #61Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#84
- #46Business, Management and Accounting#90
- -Chemistry#59
- #62Computer Science#90
- #45Decision Sciences#67
- #58Earth and Planetary Sciences#60
- #41Economics, Econometrics and Finance#97
- #57Energy-
- #72Engineering#82
- #52Environmental Science#82
- #42Health Professions#90
- #40Immunology and Microbiology-
- #70Materials Science#80
- #60Mathematics-
- #58Medicine#124
- #40Nursing-
- #58Psychology#78
- #59Social Sciences#101
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 | Sri Lanka rank | Ghana top 10% | Sri Lanka top 10% | Ghana works | Sri Lanka works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | #43 | #87 | 11.0% | 7.2% | 2.3k | 1.7k |
| Arts and Humanities | #55 | #85 | 11.5% | 10.2% | 746 | 808 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | #61 | #84 | 9.3% | 6.2% | 637 | 787 |
| Business, Management and Accounting | #46 | #90 | 12.9% | 4.9% | 2.3k | 1.3k |
| Chemistry | - | #59 | - | 8.2% | - | 224 |
| Computer Science | #62 | #90 | 10.8% | 4.8% | 1.4k | 1.8k |
| Decision Sciences | #45 | #67 | 9.5% | 4.3% | 458 | 404 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | #58 | #60 | 11.4% | 7.7% | 207 | 463 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | #41 | #97 | 13.1% | 5.6% | 1.6k | 678 |
| Energy | #57 | - | 9.8% | - | 235 | - |
| Engineering | #72 | #82 | 8.0% | 6.0% | 1.7k | 2.3k |
| Environmental Science | #52 | #82 | 9.1% | 6.2% | 1.9k | 1.6k |
| Health Professions | #42 | #90 | 13.2% | 5.4% | 1.1k | 624 |
| Immunology and Microbiology | #40 | - | 12.1% | - | 295 | - |
| Materials Science | #70 | #80 | 7.5% | 6.7% | 206 | 428 |
| Mathematics | #60 | - | 11.1% | - | 277 | - |
| Medicine | #58 | #124 | 10.1% | 4.3% | 4.3k | 3.8k |
| Nursing | #40 | - | 11.6% | - | 396 | - |
| Psychology | #58 | #78 | 8.7% | 4.7% | 1k | 714 |
| Social Sciences | #59 | #101 | 11.6% | 7.2% | 5k | 2.4k |
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
Sri Lanka
- economic effects
- Food Supply Chain
- Archaeology of Resistance
- Radiocarbon Dating
- Antimicrobial
- Intersectionality
- Recycling
- Environmental Monitoring
- Genetic Diversity
- Convolutional Neural Networks
- Antioxidant Activity
- Healthcare
- Risk Management
- Antioxidant
- Public Health
- Neural Networks
- Supply Chain Management
- Environmental Impact
- Sustainability
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Climate Change
- Globalization
- COVID-19
- Remote Sensing
- Renewable Energy
- Consumer Behavior
- Pandemic
- Economic Growth
- Social Capital
- Ecosystem Services
- Digital Transformation
- Vaccine Development
- Waste Management
- Social Inequality
- Agricultural Origins
- African Diaspora
- Black Feminist Theory
- business impact
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Machine Learning1,193▲ 1.47×96 topics
- Epidemiology1,177▲ 1.21×138 topics
- Deep Learning1,168▲ 1.39×85 topics
- Sustainability1,018▲ 1.71×114 topics
- Climate Change964▲ 1.45×116 topics
- Environmental Impact722▲ 1.74×68 topics
- Globalization519◆ 1.08×127 topics
- Supply Chain Management468▲ 2.1×24 topics
- COVID-19467▲ 1.48×29 topics
- Neural Networks460▲ 1.22×40 topics
- Remote Sensing423▲ 1.42×36 topics
- Public Health409◆ 1.15×60 topics
- Renewable Energy399◆ 1.13×55 topics
- Antioxidant389▲ 2.3×51 topics
- Consumer Behavior368▲ 2.4×18 topics
- Risk Management365▲ 3.1×20 topics
- Pandemic361▲ 1.49×13 topics
- Healthcare336▲ 1.21×36 topics
- Economic Growth310▲ 1.56×35 topics
- Antioxidant Activity293▲ 1.93×31 topics
- Social Capital292▲ 2.3×20 topics
- Convolutional Neural Networks282▲ 1.59×14 topics
- Ecosystem Services274▲ 2.9×14 topics
- Genetic Diversity269▲ 2.5×22 topics
- Digital Transformation249▲ 1.89×23 topics
- Environmental Monitoring224▲ 2.4×15 topics
- Vaccine Development223▲ 3.6×11 topics
- Recycling221▲ 2.4×10 topics
- Waste Management217▲ 2.2×11 topics
- Intersectionality203▲ 4.4×13 topics
- Social Inequality201▲ 3.1×13 topics
- Antimicrobial200▲ 2.9×13 topics
- Agricultural Origins190▲ 24×1 topic
- Radiocarbon Dating190▲ 24×1 topic
- African Diaspora177▲ 19×4 topics
- Archaeology of Resistance174▲ 79×1 topic
- Black Feminist Theory174▲ 79×1 topic
- Food Supply Chain159▲ 5.8×2 topics
- business impact135▲ 6.2×1 topic
- economic effects135▲ 6.2×1 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?
Ghana has out-published Sri Lanka every year since 2022, 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, Ghana or Sri Lanka?
Ghana publishes 1.3× as much research as Sri Lanka in 2022-now (27k against 21k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Ghana or Sri Lanka?
10.8% of Ghana's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.9% for Sri Lanka.
Is Ghana or Sri Lanka growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +42% against 2018-21 for Ghana, and +16% for Sri Lanka.
Which has more open access research, Ghana or Sri Lanka?
65% of Ghana's research is free to read, against 60% of Sri Lanka's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Ghana or Sri Lanka?
Ghana holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Sri Lanka 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
Sri Lanka
- 1University of Moratuwa5.1% top 10% · 2.2k works
- 2University of Sri Jayewardenepura5.5% top 10% · 1.9k works
- 3Department of Archaeology13.1% top 10% · 1.1k works
- 4University of Jaffna9.1% top 10% · 746 works
- 5University of Peradeniya5.7% top 10% · 1.9k works
- 6General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University3.9% top 10% · 569 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
Sri Lanka
- 1 Samath Dhamminda Dharmaratne #11,594 worldwide 239k citations · 254 works
- 2 Meththika Suharshini Vithanage #12,535 worldwide 34k citations · 518 works
- 3 Nuwan Darshana Wickramasinghe #21,611 worldwide 40k citations · 179 works
- 4 Anushka Upamali Rajapaksha #43,312 worldwide 13k citations · 136 works
- 5 Devarajan Rathish #81,508 worldwide 12k citations · 102 works