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On research quality in 2022-now, Lebanon ranks #76 in the world and Jordan #85, of 189 countries. Jordan stands higher in 16 of the 23 fields both publish in, Lebanon in 7.

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Jordan

World rank, 2022-now
#85
#100 all time
Works, 2022-now
33k
fractional
Top-10% rate
14.6%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
53%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Research and Theory, Modeling and Simulation, Numerical Analysis.

Lebanon

World rank, 2022-now
#76
#75 all time
Works, 2022-now
15k
fractional
Top-10% rate
11.8%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
44%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Modeling and Simulation, Orthodontics, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.

Who leads, measure by measure?

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

Jordan 51 level3 Lebanon
  1. #85Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#76
  2. 1.06×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.95×
  3. 33kOutputfractional works, 2022-now15k
  4. 14.6%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited11.8%
  5. 13.2Citations per workall time, per fractional work14.9
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 53%Open accessof its works free to read, all time44%
  8. 31%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time36%
  9. +65%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+17%

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?

Jordan stands higher in 16 of 23 fields, Lebanon in 7. Jordan leads most in Business, Management and Accounting (#58 against #72); Lebanon leads most in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (#61 against #82). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Jordan 167 Lebanon
  1. #110Agricultural and Biological Sciences#94
  2. #77Arts and Humanities#81
  3. #90Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#72
  4. #58Business, Management and Accounting#72
  5. #62Chemistry-
  6. #54Computer Science#60
  7. #50Decision Sciences-
  8. #52Dentistry-
  9. #82Economics, Econometrics and Finance#61
  10. #47Energy-
  11. #64Engineering#66
  12. #97Environmental Science#89
  13. #69Health Professions#76
  14. #67Immunology and Microbiology-
  15. #71Materials Science#79
  16. #58Mathematics#66
  17. #82Medicine#85
  18. #62Neuroscience#61
  19. #58Nursing-
  20. #41Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics-
  21. #69Physics and Astronomy-
  22. #71Psychology#62
  23. #108Social Sciences#84

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 Jordan rankLebanon rank Jordan top 10%Lebanon top 10% Jordan worksLebanon works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #110 #94 12.4% 11.3% 834 451
Arts and Humanities #77 #81 19.5% 11.2% 930 284
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #90 #72 8.9% 9.2% 1.1k 615
Business, Management and Accounting #58 #72 25.7% 15.1% 2.4k 627
Chemistry #62 - 8.6% - 428 -
Computer Science #54 #60 17.9% 13.0% 4.7k 1.1k
Decision Sciences #50 - 22.1% - 772 -
Dentistry #52 - 14.8% - 214 -
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #82 #61 16.2% 22.4% 787 537
Energy #47 - 13.3% - 326 -
Engineering #64 #66 13.4% 11.4% 4.1k 1.6k
Environmental Science #97 #89 11.3% 11.2% 1k 560
Health Professions #69 #76 16.1% 13.9% 1k 448
Immunology and Microbiology #67 - 9.0% - 206 -
Materials Science #71 #79 12.2% 8.1% 859 248
Mathematics #58 #66 16.8% 16.7% 944 258
Medicine #82 #85 10.2% 9.4% 5.8k 4.1k
Neuroscience #62 #61 10.8% 8.5% 351 204
Nursing #58 - 13.7% - 214 -
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics #41 - 11.4% - 213 -
Physics and Astronomy #69 - 13.6% - 369 -
Psychology #71 #62 11.2% 13.5% 1.4k 585
Social Sciences #108 #84 14.3% 12.7% 4.3k 1.6k

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.

Jordan

▲ 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. Machine Learning3,097▲ 2.4×97 topics
  2. Deep Learning1,938▲ 1.47×84 topics
  3. Supply Chain Management1,794▲ 5.2×26 topics
  4. Healthcare1,659▲ 3.8×35 topics
  5. Epidemiology1,387◆ 0.91×136 topics
  6. Digital Transformation1,217▲ 5.9×28 topics
  7. Customer Satisfaction1,206▲ 9.9×10 topics
  8. Smart Cities1,133▲ 11×8 topics
  9. IoT1,104▲ 7.7×19 topics
  10. Knowledge Management1,043▲ 4.9×36 topics
  11. Organizational Performance1,037▲ 10×11 topics
  12. Sustainability922◆ 0.99×107 topics
  13. Social Media Marketing916▲ 49×1 topic
  14. Artificial Intelligence870▲ 1.60×61 topics
  15. Mental Health822▲ 1.50×46 topics
  16. Corporate Governance818▲ 2.9×27 topics
  17. Education810▲ 1.23×103 topics
  18. COVID-19732▲ 1.48×31 topics
  19. Social Media730▲ 1.38×36 topics
  20. Risk Management717▲ 4.0×17 topics
  21. Internet of Things695▲ 2.1×30 topics
  22. Big Data689▲ 1.89×34 topics
  23. Depression622▲ 1.85×25 topics
  24. IoT Security508▲ 4.3×3 topics
  25. Financial Stability401▲ 5.5×8 topics
  26. Social Networks398▲ 3.8×13 topics
  27. Finance396▲ 5.6×4 topics
  28. Performance Analysis382▲ 4.8×5 topics
  29. User Satisfaction367▲ 5.0×4 topics
  30. Human Resource Management364▲ 6.2×8 topics
  31. Global Financial Crisis349▲ 7.0×3 topics
  32. Ethical Identity347▲ 7.8×1 topic
  33. Shariah Supervision347▲ 7.8×1 topic
  34. Technology Acceptance Model344▲ 5.8×2 topics
  35. Information Systems342▲ 5.2×8 topics
  36. Consumer Trust320▲ 8.8×1 topic
  37. Partial Least Squares320▲ 8.8×1 topic
  38. Localization306▲ 6.7×4 topics
  39. Guanxi285▲ 35×1 topic
  40. Wasta285▲ 35×1 topic

Lebanon

▲ 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. Epidemiology1,046▲ 1.56×136 topics
  2. Machine Learning685▲ 1.22×96 topics
  3. Deep Learning647◆ 1.12×82 topics
  4. Inflammation399◆ 1.12×83 topics
  5. Mental Health382▲ 1.59×46 topics
  6. Sustainability364◆ 0.89×102 topics
  7. COVID-19350▲ 1.60×29 topics
  8. Quality of Life349▲ 1.44×58 topics
  9. Renewable Energy336▲ 1.38×52 topics
  10. Treatment335▲ 1.64×52 topics
  11. Healthcare332▲ 1.73×36 topics
  12. Climate Change324▼ 0.71×106 topics
  13. Globalization312◆ 0.94×123 topics
  14. Environmental Impact300◆ 1.05×63 topics
  15. Public Health284▲ 1.16×66 topics
  16. Artificial Intelligence273◆ 1.14×59 topics
  17. Supply Chain Management268▲ 1.77×24 topics
  18. Pandemic264▲ 1.59×12 topics
  19. Diagnosis264▲ 1.68×41 topics
  20. Cardiovascular Disease253▲ 1.32×39 topics
  21. Risk Factors245▲ 1.32×37 topics
  22. Human Rights227▲ 1.32×67 topics
  23. Internet of Things222▲ 1.55×30 topics
  24. Depression218▲ 1.47×25 topics
  25. Economic Growth214▲ 1.56×31 topics
  26. Politics213▲ 4.8×19 topics
  27. Energy Efficiency208▲ 1.34×38 topics
  28. Governance206▲ 3.8×18 topics
  29. Chemotherapy198▲ 1.66×24 topics
  30. Identity197▲ 1.62×53 topics
  31. Security189▲ 1.68×30 topics
  32. Complications188▲ 2.2×17 topics
  33. Mortality181▲ 1.90×13 topics
  34. Refugees168▲ 8.1×9 topics
  35. Risk Management160▲ 2.0×17 topics
  36. Sovereignty152▲ 10×10 topics
  37. Infectious Diseases143▲ 2.6×9 topics
  38. Civil War139▲ 27×2 topics
  39. Lebanon129▲ 72×1 topic
  40. Sectarianism129▲ 72×1 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?

Jordan has out-published Lebanon every year since 1984, when it overtook it.

still counting5k10kJordan9,745 in 2025Lebanon4,203 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 counting0.10%0.20%Jordan0.17% in 2025Lebanon0.071% 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%Jordan14.9% in 2025Lebanon11.2% 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.

Jordan 03 level2 Lebanon
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 0In the top 5000
  4. 0In the top 1,0001
  5. #51Elite capacityrank among 204 countries#46

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, Jordan or Lebanon?

Jordan publishes 2.3× as much research as Lebanon in 2022-now (33k against 15k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Jordan or Lebanon?

14.6% of Jordan's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 11.8% for Lebanon.

Is Jordan or Lebanon growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +65% against 2018-21 for Jordan, and +17% for Lebanon.

Which has more open access research, Jordan or Lebanon?

53% of Jordan's research is free to read, against 44% of Lebanon's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Jordan or Lebanon?

Jordan holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Lebanon 0; in the top 1,000 it is 0 against 1.

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%.

Jordan

  1. 1Applied Science Private University21.7% top 10% · 1.6k works
  2. 2Zarqa University17.4% top 10% · 1.7k works
  3. 3Al-Ahliyya Amman University31.4% top 10% · 1.2k works
  4. 4Jadara University24.4% top 10% · 836 works
  5. 5Yarmouk University12.2% top 10% · 2.3k works
  6. 6Amman Arab University21.9% top 10% · 643 works

Lebanon

  1. 1Lebanese American University24.6% top 10% · 2.3k works
  2. 2American University of Beirut10.8% top 10% · 3.2k works
  3. 3Holy Spirit University of Kaslik17.8% top 10% · 509 works
  4. 4Saint Joseph University8.7% top 10% · 1k works
  5. 5Lebanese University7.6% top 10% · 1.9k works
  6. 6Lebanese International University12.2% top 10% · 432 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.

Jordan

  1. 1 Manaf Al‐Okaily #8,027 worldwide 7.7k citations · 170 works
  2. 2 Maha Moh’d Wahbi Atout #17,503 worldwide 48k citations · 121 works
  3. 3 Ali Abdallah Alalwan #17,704 worldwide 12k citations · 97 works
  4. 4 Ahmad Samed Al‐Adwan #21,132 worldwide 9.3k citations · 177 works
  5. 5 Marwan Mansour #23,450 worldwide 1.3k citations · 75 works

Lebanon

  1. 1 Elie I. Bouri #152 worldwide 29k citations · 467 works
  2. 2 Elie Georges Karam #15,821 worldwide 35k citations · 290 works
  3. 3 John Fayyad #72,447 worldwide 11k citations · 65 works
  4. 4 Omar S. Itani #72,719 worldwide 3.3k citations · 113 works
  5. 5 Aimée Karam #73,746 worldwide 12k citations · 75 works