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Indonesia vs United Arab Emirates

On research quality in 2022-now, The United Arab Emirates ranks #35 in the world and Indonesia #37, of 189 countries. Indonesia stands higher in 10 of the 26 fields both publish in, the United Arab Emirates in 16.

Indonesia

World rank, 2022-now
#37
#38 all time
Works, 2022-now
1.6M
fractional
Top-10% rate
7.2%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
86%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Human Factors and Ergonomics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Demography.

United Arab Emirates

World rank, 2022-now
#35
#45 all time
Works, 2022-now
46k
fractional
Top-10% rate
23.4%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
47%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Health Informatics, Ocean Engineering, General Dentistry.

Who leads in each field?

Indonesia stands higher in 10 of 26 fields, United Arab Emirates in 16. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Indonesia 1016 United Arab Emirates
  1. #31Agricultural and Biological Sciences#45
  2. #9Arts and Humanities#79
  3. #74Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#37
  4. #7Business, Management and Accounting#23
  5. #31Chemical Engineering-
  6. #57Chemistry#23
  7. #19Computer Science#13
  8. #39Decision Sciences#27
  9. #57Dentistry#24
  10. #46Earth and Planetary Sciences#40
  11. #15Economics, Econometrics and Finance#22
  12. #65Energy#17
  13. #54Engineering#21
  14. #45Environmental Science#40
  15. #17Health Professions#47
  16. #64Immunology and Microbiology#43
  17. #49Materials Science#25
  18. #42Mathematics#25
  19. #68Medicine#40
  20. #67Neuroscience#32
  21. #32Nursing-
  22. #32Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics-
  23. #64Physics and Astronomy#38
  24. #57Psychology#40
  25. #3Social Sciences#41
  26. #27Veterinary-

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.

How has their output grown?

200k400k600kIndonesia417k in 2025United Arab Emirates14k in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works per year. The latest, partial year is left off.

Which publishes more research, Indonesia or United Arab Emirates?

Indonesia publishes 34.2× as much research as the United Arab Emirates in 2022-now (1.6M against 46k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Indonesia or United Arab Emirates?

23.4% of the United Arab Emirates's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 7.2% for Indonesia.

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%.

Indonesia

  1. 1Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bengkulu10.3% top 10% · 29k works
  2. 2Institut Sains dan Teknologi Terpadu Surabaya10.7% top 10% · 5.7k works
  3. 3Padjadjaran University9.7% top 10% · 17k works
  4. 4State University of Padang9.1% top 10% · 22k works
  5. 5Indonesia University of Education12.5% top 10% · 21k works
  6. 6Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University Yogyakarta11.7% top 10% · 10k works

United Arab Emirates

  1. 1Khalifa University of Science and Technology28.5% top 10% · 5k works
  2. 2United Arab Emirates University30.7% top 10% · 4.9k works
  3. 3University of Sharjah25.6% top 10% · 5.4k works
  4. 4Ajman University27.3% top 10% · 1.6k works
  5. 5Zayed University33.5% top 10% · 1.6k works
  6. 6American University of Sharjah25.6% top 10% · 2k 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, 16.5% (why not 10%): 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.

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