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Kuwait vs Lebanon

On research quality in 2022-now, Lebanon ranks #76 in the world and Kuwait #104, of 189 countries. Kuwait stands higher in 1 of the 15 fields both publish in, Lebanon in 14.

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Kuwait

World rank, 2022-now
#104
#137 all time
Works, 2022-now
9.9k
fractional
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
40%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Ocean Engineering, Microbiology, 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?

Lebanon leads on 7 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, citations per work, open access and international co-authorship. Kuwait leads on 1 of 9 measures: growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Kuwait 11 level7 Lebanon
  1. #104Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#76
  2. 0.82×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.95×
  3. 9.9kOutputfractional works, 2022-now15k
  4. 10.3%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited11.8%
  5. 14.4Citations per workall time, per fractional work14.9
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 40%Open accessof its works free to read, all time44%
  8. 32%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time36%
  9. +33%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?

Kuwait stands higher in 1 of 15 fields, Lebanon in 14. Lebanon leads most in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (#61 against #92); Kuwait leads most in Materials Science (#68 against #79). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Kuwait 114 Lebanon
  1. -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#94
  2. -Arts and Humanities#81
  3. #86Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#72
  4. #82Business, Management and Accounting#72
  5. #86Computer Science#60
  6. #92Economics, Econometrics and Finance#61
  7. #74Engineering#66
  8. #96Environmental Science#89
  9. #87Health Professions#76
  10. #68Materials Science#79
  11. -Mathematics#66
  12. #106Medicine#85
  13. -Neuroscience#61
  14. #89Psychology#62
  15. #125Social 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 Kuwait rankLebanon rank Kuwait top 10%Lebanon top 10% Kuwait worksLebanon works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences - #94 - 11.3% - 451
Arts and Humanities - #81 - 11.2% - 284
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #86 #72 7.9% 9.2% 375 615
Business, Management and Accounting #82 #72 17.1% 15.1% 408 627
Computer Science #86 #60 14.0% 13.0% 812 1.1k
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #92 #61 13.9% 22.4% 243 537
Engineering #74 #66 9.7% 11.4% 2k 1.6k
Environmental Science #96 #89 9.2% 11.2% 492 560
Health Professions #87 #76 11.5% 13.9% 214 448
Materials Science #68 #79 9.9% 8.1% 277 248
Mathematics - #66 - 16.7% - 258
Medicine #106 #85 7.2% 9.4% 2.2k 4.1k
Neuroscience - #61 - 8.5% - 204
Psychology #89 #62 11.3% 13.5% 268 585
Social Sciences #125 #84 11.3% 12.7% 1.1k 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.

Kuwait

▲ 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. Epidemiology571▲ 1.25×135 topics
  2. Machine Learning541▲ 1.42×94 topics
  3. Deep Learning396◆ 1.00×82 topics
  4. Sustainability275◆ 0.98×91 topics
  5. Renewable Energy266▲ 1.60×49 topics
  6. Inflammation250◆ 1.03×83 topics
  7. Education215◆ 1.09×74 topics
  8. Environmental Impact214◆ 1.09×58 topics
  9. Treatment212▲ 1.52×51 topics
  10. Heat Transfer211▲ 3.8×19 topics
  11. Healthcare208▲ 1.59×26 topics
  12. Nanoparticles202▲ 1.39×43 topics
  13. Diagnosis194▲ 1.82×41 topics
  14. COVID-19184▲ 1.23×32 topics
  15. Cardiovascular Disease180▲ 1.38×38 topics
  16. Optimization174▲ 3.4×26 topics
  17. Supply Chain Management171▲ 1.66×23 topics
  18. Energy Efficiency168▲ 1.58×42 topics
  19. Risk Management165▲ 3.0×17 topics
  20. Online Learning160▲ 1.68×24 topics
  21. Corporate Governance149▲ 1.77×24 topics
  22. Data Assimilation133▲ 7.1×4 topics
  23. Islamic Education128▲ 3.4×4 topics
  24. Ensemble Kalman Filter125▲ 11×2 topics
  25. Uncertainty Quantification121▲ 13×2 topics
  26. Hydraulic Fracturing118▲ 9.6×2 topics
  27. Vibration Analysis118▲ 3.8×9 topics
  28. Closed-Loop Control116▲ 23×1 topic
  29. Well Placement116▲ 23×1 topic
  30. Experimental Investigation113▲ 9.5×5 topics
  31. Fracture Propagation111▲ 16×1 topic
  32. Shale Gas Reservoirs111▲ 16×1 topic
  33. Nanofluids108▲ 11×2 topics
  34. Rheological Properties102▲ 5.0×6 topics
  35. CO2 Sequestration101▲ 4.5×4 topics
  36. Thermal Conductivity90▲ 4.9×8 topics
  37. Review90▲ 6.5×4 topics
  38. Drilling Fluids83▲ 14×1 topic
  39. Well Integrity83▲ 14×1 topic
  40. Viscosity70▲ 8.7×3 topics

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?

Lebanon has out-published Kuwait every year since 2004, when it overtook it.

still counting2k4k6kLebanon4,203 in 2025Kuwait2,814 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 counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Lebanon0.071% in 2025Kuwait0.048% 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%Kuwait11.4% 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.

Kuwait 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, Kuwait or Lebanon?

Lebanon publishes 1.5× as much research as Kuwait in 2022-now (15k against 9.9k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Kuwait or Lebanon?

11.8% of Lebanon's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 10.3% for Kuwait.

Is Kuwait or Lebanon growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +33% against 2018-21 for Kuwait, and +17% for Lebanon.

Which has more open access research, Kuwait or Lebanon?

44% of Lebanon's research is free to read, against 40% of Kuwait's.

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

Kuwait 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%.

Kuwait

  1. 1American University of the Middle East18.6% top 10% · 1.3k works
  2. 2Gulf University for Science & Technology22.2% top 10% · 693 works
  3. 3Kuwait College of Science and Technology15.0% top 10% · 434 works
  4. 4Kuwait University8.7% top 10% · 2.3k works
  5. 5Public Authority for Applied Education and Training7.1% top 10% · 658 works
  6. 6Dar al Athar al Islamiyyah7.1% top 10% · 435 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.

Kuwait

  1. 1 Orhan Dönmez #35,990 worldwide 1.6k citations · 161 works
  2. 2 Yehia Ibrahim Alzoubi #65,602 worldwide 1.8k citations · 78 works
  3. 3 Waleed Al–Herz #102,870 worldwide 16k citations · 185 works
  4. 4 Ali M. Al-Hemoud #132,210 worldwide 2.4k citations · 82 works
  5. 5 Ismaeel Al Ridhawi #148,327 worldwide 3.3k citations · 97 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