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Haiti vs Réunion

On research quality in 2022-now, Réunion ranks #99 in the world and Haiti #161, of 189 countries. Haiti stands higher in 0 of the 1 fields both publish in, Réunion in 1.

Research profiles alike: 0.74very 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.

Réunion

World rank, 2022-now
#99
#96 all time
Works, 2022-now
1.4k
fractional
Top-10% rate
6.7%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
48%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Linguistics and Language, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Horticulture.

Who leads, measure by measure?

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

Haiti 31 level5 Réunion
  1. #161Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#99
  2. 0.88×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected1.00×
  3. 305Outputfractional works, 2022-now1.4k
  4. 7.6%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.7%
  5. 8.4Citations per workall time, per fractional work10.5
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 61%Open accessof its works free to read, all time48%
  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+49%

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 1 fields, Réunion in 1. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Haiti 01 Réunion
  1. -Social Sciences#100

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 rankRéunion rank Haiti top 10%Réunion top 10% Haiti worksRéunion works
Social Sciences - #100 - 5.4% - 478

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

Réunion

▲ 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 Change100▲ 2.2×81 topics
  2. Globalization94▲ 2.9×75 topics
  3. Migration90▲ 16×17 topics
  4. Identity89▲ 7.5×46 topics
  5. Epidemiology84▲ 1.29×119 topics
  6. Biogeography81▲ 18×19 topics
  7. Colonialism80▲ 10×31 topics
  8. Sociolinguistics76▲ 25×8 topics
  9. Social Justice75▲ 7.7×20 topics
  10. Gender71▲ 8.0×34 topics
  11. Cultural Diversity70▲ 19×10 topics
  12. Public Policy62▲ 7.9×17 topics
  13. Public Health60▲ 2.5×41 topics
  14. Multilingualism60▲ 23×5 topics
  15. Ethnicity59▲ 9.6×12 topics
  16. Sustainable Development58▲ 2.3×32 topics
  17. Community Engagement58▲ 11×11 topics
  18. Phylogeny56▲ 20×15 topics
  19. Territorial Governance55▲ 29×4 topics
  20. Gender Studies54▲ 22×11 topics
  21. Local Development54▲ 31×2 topics
  22. Healthcare Access49▲ 11×10 topics
  23. Politics48▲ 11×17 topics
  24. Culture44▲ 5.1×21 topics
  25. Social Movements43▲ 8.9×21 topics
  26. Religion40▲ 5.3×20 topics
  27. Citizen Participation39▲ 21×1 topic
  28. Environmental Participation39▲ 34×1 topic
  29. Nationalism38▲ 5.1×19 topics
  30. Educational Policies37▲ 21×2 topics
  31. Professional Practices37▲ 63×1 topic
  32. Public Action37▲ 63×1 topic
  33. Sociological Analysis37▲ 40×2 topics
  34. Discrimination35▲ 10×5 topics
  35. Social Inequality34▲ 7.8×4 topics
  36. French Territories34▲ 211×1 topic
  37. Migrant Workers34▲ 211×1 topic
  38. Intercultural Communication33▲ 44×2 topics
  39. Language Policy33▲ 14×4 topics
  40. Taxonomy31▲ 13×13 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?

Réunion has out-published Haiti every year since 1981, when it overtook it.

still counting200400600Réunion340 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%Réunion0.0058% 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%Réunion7.8% 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 Réunion
  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 Réunion?

Réunion publishes 4.6× as much research as Haiti in 2022-now (1.4k against 305 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Haiti or Réunion?

7.6% of Haiti's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.7% for Réunion.

Is Haiti or Réunion growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +49% against 2018-21 for Réunion, and +11% for Haiti.

Which has more open access research, Haiti or Réunion?

61% of Haiti's research is free to read, against 48% of Réunion's.

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

Haiti holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Réunion 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

Réunion

  1. 1University of Reunion Island6.8% top 10% · 277 works
  2. 2Conseil Régional de La Réunion9.9% top 10% · 61 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

Réunion

  1. 1 Riccardo Rodolfo‐Metalpa #183,527 worldwide 6.3k citations · 141 works
  2. 2 Fanny Houlbrèque #324,354 worldwide 4.6k citations · 113 works
  3. 3 Marie‐Paule Gonthier #329,865 worldwide 4.4k citations · 57 works
  4. 4 Silvia Iacobelli #550,826 worldwide 6.2k citations · 158 works
  5. 5 Philippe Lauret #572,523 worldwide 3.9k citations · 103 works