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Haiti vs Madagascar

On research quality in 2022-now, Madagascar ranks #122 in the world and Haiti #161, of 189 countries. Haiti stands higher in 0 of the 2 fields both publish in, Madagascar in 2.

Research profiles alike: 0.73very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured

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Haiti

World rank, 2022-now
#161
#155 all time
Works, 2022-now
305
fractional
Top-10% rate
7.6%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
61%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Horticulture, Religious studies, Urban Studies.

Madagascar

World rank, 2022-now
#122
#123 all time
Works, 2022-now
1.6k
fractional
Top-10% rate
4.9%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
65%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Horticulture, Developmental Biology, Forestry.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Madagascar leads on 5 of 9 measures: research quality, output, citations per work, open access and growth. Haiti leads on 3 of 9 measures: excellence for its fields, top-10% rate and international co-authorship. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Haiti 31 level5 Madagascar
  1. #161Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#122
  2. 0.88×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.67×
  3. 305Outputfractional works, 2022-now1.6k
  4. 7.6%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited4.9%
  5. 8.4Citations per workall time, per fractional work10.3
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 61%Open accessof its works free to read, all time65%
  8. 50%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time42%
  9. +11%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+24%

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?

Haiti stands higher in 0 of 2 fields, Madagascar in 2. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Haiti 02 Madagascar
  1. -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#93
  2. -Medicine#98

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 Haiti rankMadagascar rank Haiti top 10%Madagascar top 10% Haiti worksMadagascar works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences - #93 - 6.7% - 208
Medicine - #98 - 4.0% - 440

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.

Haiti

▲ 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. Climate Change28▲ 2.9×41 topics
  2. Sustainability27▲ 3.1×30 topics
  3. Public Health25▲ 4.9×32 topics
  4. Identity24▲ 9.2×18 topics
  5. Globalization23▲ 3.3×40 topics
  6. Epidemiology22▲ 1.58×77 topics
  7. Smallholder Farmers21▲ 28×4 topics
  8. Postcolonialism20▲ 39×9 topics
  9. Adaptation19▲ 18×5 topics
  10. Race19▲ 45×8 topics
  11. Agroecology19▲ 38×3 topics
  12. Agricultural Development18▲ 33×2 topics
  13. Diversity18▲ 29×2 topics
  14. Livestock Farming18▲ 84×1 topic
  15. Work Organization18▲ 129×1 topic
  16. Caribbean17▲ 262×2 topics
  17. Migration17▲ 14×10 topics
  18. Community Engagement16▲ 14×8 topics
  19. Colonialism16▲ 9.8×12 topics
  20. Sociolinguistics16▲ 25×4 topics
  21. Economic Development16▲ 5.6×11 topics
  22. Ethnicity16▲ 12×7 topics
  23. Healthcare Access15▲ 16×9 topics
  24. Cultural Diversity15▲ 18×7 topics
  25. Local Development14▲ 40×2 topics
  26. Territorial Governance14▲ 36×2 topics
  27. Literature14▲ 7.3×6 topics
  28. Sociopolitical13▲ 112×4 topics
  29. Social Inequality13▲ 14×7 topics
  30. Diaspora12▲ 60×2 topics
  31. Haiti12▲ 455×1 topic
  32. Vodou12▲ 455×1 topic
  33. Discrimination12▲ 16×1 topic
  34. French Territories12▲ 345×1 topic
  35. Social Justice11▲ 5.2×14 topics
  36. Cooperatives10▲ 37×3 topics
  37. Solidarity Economy10▲ 48×2 topics
  38. Citizenship9▲ 21×3 topics
  39. Institutionalization9▲ 27×2 topics
  40. Social Innovation9▲ 16×3 topics

Madagascar

▲ 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. Epidemiology174▲ 2.2×117 topics
  2. Climate Change162▲ 3.0×81 topics
  3. Sustainability85▲ 1.76×71 topics
  4. Smallholder Farmers62▲ 15×6 topics
  5. Public Health61▲ 2.1×46 topics
  6. Biodiversity57▲ 3.8×31 topics
  7. Environmental Impact53▲ 1.58×49 topics
  8. Sustainable Development49▲ 1.57×47 topics
  9. Treatment47▲ 1.96×39 topics
  10. Diagnosis46▲ 2.5×36 topics
  11. Biodiversity Conservation45▲ 6.1×14 topics
  12. Adaptation44▲ 7.5×10 topics
  13. Population Dynamics43▲ 8.4×12 topics
  14. Evolution41▲ 7.7×16 topics
  15. Immune Response38▲ 3.4×18 topics
  16. Diversity38▲ 11×6 topics
  17. Genetic Diversity38▲ 4.4×21 topics
  18. Global Burden37▲ 3.4×12 topics
  19. Agroecology36▲ 13×4 topics
  20. Invasive Species35▲ 4.2×20 topics
  21. Livestock Farming35▲ 30×3 topics
  22. Habitat Fragmentation34▲ 8.0×5 topics
  23. Vaccine33▲ 4.2×11 topics
  24. Agricultural Development33▲ 11×3 topics
  25. Multifunctionality33▲ 36×2 topics
  26. Work Organization33▲ 43×1 topic
  27. Conservation32▲ 3.8×18 topics
  28. Vaccine Development32▲ 6.3×11 topics
  29. Sustainable Agriculture31▲ 5.1×10 topics
  30. Altruism30▲ 18×5 topics
  31. Conservation Biology28▲ 13×4 topics
  32. Agroforestry24▲ 18×4 topics
  33. Biodiversity Loss23▲ 21×3 topics
  34. Cognition22▲ 7.8×2 topics
  35. Social Behavior22▲ 19×2 topics
  36. Cooperation22▲ 17×3 topics
  37. Intelligence22▲ 26×1 topic
  38. Primates22▲ 57×1 topic
  39. Climate Resilience22▲ 18×3 topics
  40. Nutritional Value21▲ 9.6×4 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?

Madagascar has out-published Haiti every year since 1980.

still counting200400600Madagascar444 in 2025Haiti78 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%Madagascar0.0076% in 2025Haiti0.0013% 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%Madagascar6.1% in 2025Haiti4.9% 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.

Haiti 05 level0 Madagascar
  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, Haiti or Madagascar?

Madagascar publishes 5.4× as much research as Haiti in 2022-now (1.6k against 305 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Haiti or Madagascar?

7.6% of Haiti's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.9% for Madagascar.

Is Haiti or Madagascar growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +24% against 2018-21 for Madagascar, and +11% for Haiti.

Which has more open access research, Haiti or Madagascar?

65% of Madagascar's research is free to read, against 61% of Haiti's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Haiti or Madagascar?

Haiti holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Madagascar 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%.

Haiti

  1. 1University of Haiti7.2% top 10% · 111 works

Madagascar

  1. 1University of Antananarivo3.7% top 10% · 680 works
  2. 2Université de Fianarantsoa2.0% top 10% · 126 works
  3. 3Université de Mahajanga3.3% top 10% · 106 works
  4. 4University of Toliara4.7% top 10% · 80 works
  5. 5Centre National de la Recherche Appliquée au Developpement Rural9.8% top 10% · 71 works
  6. 6Université d’Antsiranana2.5% top 10% · 64 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.

Haiti

  1. 1 Gaël Pressoir #264,545 worldwide 9.3k citations · 47 works
  2. 2 Jean William Pape #776,966 worldwide 13k citations · 381 works
  3. 3 Vanessa Rouzier #969,029 worldwide 5.2k citations · 164 works
  4. 4 Steeve Symithe #1,004,204 worldwide 947 citations · 64 works
  5. 5 Marc Antoine Jean Juste #1,025,146 worldwide 1.3k citations · 20 works

Madagascar

  1. 1 O. Sarobidy Rakotonarivo #151,541 worldwide 1.7k citations · 59 works
  2. 2 Chantal Radimilahy #278,586 worldwide 2.1k citations · 51 works
  3. 3 Jonah Ratsimbazafy #334,732 worldwide 4k citations · 112 works
  4. 4 Jean‐Michel Héraud #497,740 worldwide 7.2k citations · 222 works
  5. 5 Patrice Piola #621,069 worldwide 3.7k citations · 128 works