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Guinea vs Mali

On research quality in 2022-now, Mali ranks #118 in the world and Guinea #185, of 189 countries. Guinea stands higher in 0 of the 3 fields both publish in, Mali in 3.

Research profiles alike: 0.85very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured

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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.

Mali

World rank, 2022-now
#118
#81 all time
Works, 2022-now
1.9k
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.0%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
62%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Medical Terminology, Forestry, Horticulture.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Mali leads on 5 of 9 measures: research quality, output, top-10% rate, citations per work and international co-authorship. Guinea leads on 2 of 9 measures: open access and growth. The two are level on excellence for its fields and institutions in the world top 100.

Guinea 22 level5 Mali
  1. #185Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#118
  2. 0.55×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.56×
  3. 937Outputfractional works, 2022-now1.9k
  4. 3.0%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.0%
  5. 5.2Citations per workall time, per fractional work14.4
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 72%Open accessof its works free to read, all time62%
  8. 38%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time46%
  9. +59%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+9%

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 0 of 3 fields, Mali in 3. Mali leads most in Medicine (#88 against #134). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Guinea 03 Mali
  1. -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#73
  2. #134Medicine#88
  3. -Social Sciences#119

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 rankMali rank Guinea top 10%Mali top 10% Guinea worksMali works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences - #73 - 7.4% - 261
Medicine #134 #88 2.0% 2.6% 549 792
Social Sciences - #119 - 6.9% - 221

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

Mali

▲ 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. Epidemiology278▲ 3.2×126 topics
  2. Climate Change132▲ 2.2×76 topics
  3. Public Health110▲ 3.5×54 topics
  4. Sustainability107▲ 2.0×62 topics
  5. Smallholder Farmers101▲ 22×6 topics
  6. Adaptation77▲ 12×9 topics
  7. Diagnosis76▲ 3.7×38 topics
  8. Treatment69▲ 2.6×44 topics
  9. Agroecology64▲ 21×3 topics
  10. Vaccine Development64▲ 11×11 topics
  11. Agricultural Development62▲ 18×5 topics
  12. Diversity61▲ 16×5 topics
  13. Multifunctionality61▲ 60×2 topics
  14. Livestock Farming61▲ 47×3 topics
  15. Global Burden61▲ 5.1×12 topics
  16. Work Organization60▲ 72×1 topic
  17. Maternal Mortality58▲ 12×5 topics
  18. Immune Response57▲ 4.6×17 topics
  19. Sustainable Agriculture53▲ 7.8×12 topics
  20. Pathogenesis50▲ 4.4×22 topics
  21. Vaccine48▲ 5.5×11 topics
  22. Primary Care44▲ 5.4×12 topics
  23. Health Inequalities44▲ 16×3 topics
  24. Community Health Workers43▲ 22×2 topics
  25. Socio-economic Factors43▲ 18×3 topics
  26. Social Determinants of Health42▲ 8.9×6 topics
  27. Child Mortality42▲ 27×1 topic
  28. Health Systems42▲ 27×1 topic
  29. Insecticide Resistance40▲ 23×4 topics
  30. Genome Sequence39▲ 21×4 topics
  31. Digital Health37▲ 15×3 topics
  32. Healthcare Policy36▲ 18×3 topics
  33. Artemisinin Resistance36▲ 49×1 topic
  34. Plasmodium falciparum36▲ 49×1 topic
  35. Healthcare Management35▲ 20×2 topics
  36. Healthcare Quality Indicators34▲ 27×2 topics
  37. Inequalities34▲ 49×1 topic
  38. Universal Health Coverage34▲ 49×1 topic
  39. Maternal and Child Undernutrition31▲ 17×1 topic
  40. Water Sanitation Hygiene31▲ 17×1 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?

Mali has out-published Guinea every year since 1980.

still counting250500750Mali378 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 counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Mali0.0064% 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 counting10%20%Mali6.6% in 2025Guinea4.0% 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 Mali
  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 Mali?

Mali publishes 2.1× as much research as Guinea in 2022-now (1.9k against 937 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Guinea or Mali?

5.0% of Mali's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 3.0% for Guinea.

Is Guinea or Mali growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +59% against 2018-21 for Guinea, and +9% for Mali.

Which has more open access research, Guinea or Mali?

72% of Guinea's research is free to read, against 62% of Mali's.

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

Guinea holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Mali 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

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

Mali

  1. 1 Samba Ousmane Sow #66,530 worldwide 20k citations · 379 works
  2. 2 Robert B. Zougmoré #67,997 worldwide 8.3k citations · 341 works
  3. 3 Ogobara K. Doumbo #80,129 worldwide 33k citations · 514 works
  4. 4 Boubou Tamboura #86,714 worldwide 10k citations · 63 works
  5. 5 Kassoum Kayentao #103,548 worldwide 9k citations · 217 works