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Guinea vs Libya

On research quality in 2022-now, Guinea ranks #185 in the world and Libya #188, of 189 countries. Guinea stands higher in 1 of the 8 fields both publish in, Libya in 7.

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Guinea

World rank, 2022-now
#185
#178 all time
Works, 2022-now
937
fractional
Top-10% rate
3.0%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
72%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Virology, Parasitology, Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Libya

World rank, 2022-now
#188
#201 all time
Works, 2022-now
6.9k
fractional
Top-10% rate
3.6%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
70%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: General Dentistry, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Drug Discovery.

Who leads, measure by measure?

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

Guinea 41 level4 Libya
  1. #185Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#188
  2. 0.55×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.35×
  3. 937Outputfractional works, 2022-now6.9k
  4. 3.0%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited3.6%
  5. 5.2Citations per workall time, per fractional work5.5
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 72%Open accessof its works free to read, all time70%
  8. 38%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time27%
  9. +59%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+79%

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?

Guinea stands higher in 1 of 8 fields, Libya in 7. Guinea leads most in Medicine (#134 against #152). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Guinea 17 Libya
  1. -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#123
  2. -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#104
  3. -Computer Science#126
  4. -Dentistry#61
  5. -Engineering#125
  6. -Environmental Science#121
  7. #134Medicine#152
  8. -Social Sciences#147

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 Guinea rankLibya rank Guinea top 10%Libya top 10% Guinea worksLibya works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences - #123 - 2.9% - 477
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - #104 - 2.3% - 277
Computer Science - #126 - 3.4% - 549
Dentistry - #61 - 1.1% - 208
Engineering - #125 - 3.9% - 1.1k
Environmental Science - #121 - 3.8% - 329
Medicine #134 #152 2.0% 2.3% 549 1.6k
Social Sciences - #147 - 6.5% - 640

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.

Guinea

▲ 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. Epidemiology192▲ 4.3×115 topics
  2. Diagnosis59▲ 5.7×34 topics
  3. Treatment55▲ 4.1×41 topics
  4. Immune Response52▲ 8.2×17 topics
  5. Public Health50▲ 3.1×42 topics
  6. Vaccine46▲ 10×11 topics
  7. Risk Factors46▲ 3.7×32 topics
  8. Maternal Mortality43▲ 17×5 topics
  9. Pathogenesis41▲ 7.3×20 topics
  10. Global Burden38▲ 6.2×12 topics
  11. Inflammation35▲ 1.49×41 topics
  12. Complications34▲ 6.1×15 topics
  13. Cardiovascular Disease30▲ 2.3×26 topics
  14. Health Inequalities30▲ 22×2 topics
  15. Community Health Workers28▲ 29×2 topics
  16. Management28▲ 3.1×27 topics
  17. Child Mortality28▲ 35×1 topic
  18. Health Systems28▲ 35×1 topic
  19. Genetic Diversity27▲ 5.6×12 topics
  20. Smallholder Farmers26▲ 11×4 topics
  21. Antiretroviral Therapy25▲ 14×6 topics
  22. Surgery22▲ 5.7×9 topics
  23. Drug Resistance21▲ 6.7×7 topics
  24. Mortality21▲ 3.4×12 topics
  25. Vaccine Development21▲ 7.5×10 topics
  26. Surgical Management21▲ 4.6×17 topics
  27. Guidelines21▲ 4.0×12 topics
  28. Clinical Practice Guidelines20▲ 3.2×13 topics
  29. Adaptation20▲ 5.9×7 topics
  30. Livestock Farming16▲ 25×3 topics
  31. Agricultural Development16▲ 9.6×2 topics
  32. Agroecology16▲ 10×2 topics
  33. Diversity16▲ 8.3×2 topics
  34. Multifunctionality16▲ 31×1 topic
  35. Work Organization16▲ 37×1 topic
  36. Transmission15▲ 25×3 topics
  37. Children15▲ 5.9×7 topics
  38. Prenatal Diagnosis13▲ 8.3×7 topics
  39. HIV13▲ 14×4 topics
  40. Outbreak12▲ 29×2 topics

Libya

▲ 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. Epidemiology484▲ 1.44×134 topics
  2. Machine Learning381▲ 1.35×92 topics
  3. Deep Learning291◆ 1.00×77 topics
  4. Inflammation220▲ 1.23×83 topics
  5. Renewable Energy207▲ 1.69×49 topics
  6. Environmental Impact185▲ 1.28×57 topics
  7. Oxidative Stress171▲ 1.23×60 topics
  8. Cardiovascular Disease162▲ 1.68×38 topics
  9. COVID-19158▲ 1.43×30 topics
  10. Quality of Life157▲ 1.29×49 topics
  11. Antioxidant145▲ 2.5×50 topics
  12. Antioxidant Activity143▲ 2.7×32 topics
  13. Metabolic Syndrome126▲ 1.84×23 topics
  14. Culture109▲ 2.5×11 topics
  15. Literature108▲ 2.3×16 topics
  16. Islam103▲ 5.9×5 topics
  17. Diabetes103▲ 2.4×21 topics
  18. Ethnicity103▲ 3.3×8 topics
  19. Philosophy101▲ 2.7×8 topics
  20. Medicinal Plants101▲ 3.1×19 topics
  21. Science100▲ 4.8×5 topics
  22. Social Influence99▲ 5.6×3 topics
  23. Sharia Law98▲ 8.1×2 topics
  24. Malay Language98▲ 8.2×1 topic
  25. Prevention94▲ 2.6×16 topics
  26. Language Teaching93▲ 4.1×8 topics
  27. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles88▲ 5.5×4 topics
  28. Legal Regulation87▲ 4.6×8 topics
  29. Design86▲ 6.2×5 topics
  30. Strategic Planning86▲ 6.9×3 topics
  31. Economic Security85▲ 4.8×5 topics
  32. Modernization83▲ 5.4×2 topics
  33. Public Oversight83▲ 8.0×1 topic
  34. Transport Policy83▲ 8.0×1 topic
  35. Foresight82▲ 7.5×2 topics
  36. Air Force82▲ 8.2×1 topic
  37. Warfare82▲ 8.2×1 topic
  38. Infection Control55▲ 7.8×2 topics
  39. Corrective Feedback55▲ 8.7×1 topic
  40. L2 Motivation55▲ 8.7×1 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?

Libya has out-published Guinea every year since 1980.

still counting1k2k3kLibya2,616 in 2025Guinea265 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%Libya0.044% in 2025Guinea0.0045% 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%Guinea4.0% in 2025Libya3.3% 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.

Guinea 05 level0 Libya
  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, Guinea or Libya?

Libya publishes 7.4× as much research as Guinea in 2022-now (6.9k against 937 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Guinea or Libya?

3.6% of Libya's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 3.0% for Guinea.

Is Guinea or Libya growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +79% against 2018-21 for Libya, and +59% for Guinea.

Which has more open access research, Guinea or Libya?

72% of Guinea's research is free to read, against 70% of Libya's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Guinea or Libya?

Guinea holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Libya 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%.

Guinea

  1. 1Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry1.7% top 10% · 337 works
  2. 2Institut de Recherche Agronomique de Guinée5.8% top 10% · 99 works
  3. 3Ignace Deen Hospital0.4% top 10% · 155 works
  4. 4Donka Hospital0.5% top 10% · 129 works

Libya

  1. 1Al Zawiya University5.6% top 10% · 616 works
  2. 2Misurata University3.6% top 10% · 557 works
  3. 3University Elmergib4.1% top 10% · 366 works
  4. 4Libyan Academy5.6% top 10% · 359 works
  5. 5Omar Al-Mukhtar University2.9% top 10% · 625 works
  6. 6Sebha University3.9% top 10% · 458 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.

Guinea

  1. 1 Lamine Koivogui #185,777 worldwide 7.5k citations · 72 works
  2. 2 N’Faly Magassouba #233,847 worldwide 4.4k citations · 33 works
  3. 3 Boubacar Diallo #682,861 worldwide 6k citations · 168 works
  4. 4 Abdoul Habib Béavogui #695,505 worldwide 3k citations · 156 works
  5. 5 Moumié Barry #739,870 worldwide 1.1k citations · 21 works

Libya

  1. 1 Muhammed Elhadi #5,131 worldwide 74k citations · 402 works
  2. 2 Ali Meftah Gerged #84,887 worldwide 3.5k citations · 89 works
  3. 3 Ibrahim Ahmed Badi #145,525 worldwide 2.3k citations · 100 works
  4. 4 Yasser Fathi Nassar #226,826 worldwide 4.4k citations · 136 works
  5. 5 Rabia Emhamed Al Mamlook #245,678 worldwide 2.3k citations · 88 works