Laos vs Zambia
On research quality in 2022-now, Laos ranks #79 in the world and Zambia #81, of 189 countries. Laos stands higher in 0 of the 10 fields both publish in, Zambia in 10.
Research profiles alike: 0.82very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured
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Laos
- World rank, 2022-now
- #79
- #88 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 1.2k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 7.2%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 66%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Parasitology, Forestry, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.
Zambia
- World rank, 2022-now
- #81
- #70 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 6.6k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 5.9%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 71%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Insect Science, Aquatic Science, Business and International Management.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Laos leads on 5 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work and international co-authorship. Zambia leads on 3 of 9 measures: output, open access and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.
- #79Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#81
- 0.96×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.80×
- 1.2kOutputfractional works, 2022-now6.6k
- 7.2%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.9%
- 11.8Citations per workall time, per fractional work9.8
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 66%Open accessof its works free to read, all time71%
- 56%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time44%
- +81%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+97%
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?
Laos stands higher in 0 of 10 fields, Zambia in 10. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#77
- -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#67
- -Business, Management and Accounting#86
- -Computer Science#110
- -Economics, Econometrics and Finance#76
- -Engineering#103
- -Environmental Science#83
- -Health Professions#74
- -Medicine#66
- -Social Sciences#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 | Laos rank | Zambia rank | Laos top 10% | Zambia top 10% | Laos works | Zambia works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | - | #77 | - | 4.0% | - | 1.1k |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | - | #67 | - | 3.8% | - | 410 |
| Business, Management and Accounting | - | #86 | - | 5.1% | - | 530 |
| Computer Science | - | #110 | - | 6.5% | - | 236 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | - | #76 | - | 4.8% | - | 329 |
| Engineering | - | #103 | - | 6.2% | - | 331 |
| Environmental Science | - | #83 | - | 5.8% | - | 480 |
| Health Professions | - | #74 | - | 6.5% | - | 262 |
| Medicine | - | #66 | - | 7.2% | - | 1.2k |
| Social Sciences | - | #98 | - | 7.4% | - | 887 |
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.
Laos
- Taxonomy
- Panel Data Models
- Market Competition
- Molecular Phylogeny
- Economic Evaluation
- Land Use Change
- Anti-inflammatory
- Laos
- Medicinal Plants
- Vaccine
- Invasive Species
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Food Security
- Antioxidant
- Biogeography
- Economic Development
- Sustainable Development
- Biodiversity
- Public Health
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Environmental Impact
- Globalization
- Education
- Genetic Diversity
- Pathogenesis
- Immune Response
- Vaccine Development
- Democracy
- Health Education
- Ethnic Identity
- Cultural Politics
- Thailand
- Monetary Policy
- Maternal Health
- Breastfeeding
- Financial Analysis
- Asset Pricing
- Stock Prices
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology110▲ 1.87×113 topics
- Climate Change94▲ 2.3×89 topics
- Sustainability72▲ 2.0×75 topics
- Public Health47▲ 2.2×58 topics
- Environmental Impact47▲ 1.85×48 topics
- Biodiversity45▲ 4.0×31 topics
- Globalization44▲ 1.51×67 topics
- Sustainable Development39▲ 1.70×59 topics
- Education38▲ 1.51×69 topics
- Economic Development33▲ 2.8×20 topics
- Genetic Diversity28▲ 4.3×21 topics
- Biogeography27▲ 6.6×19 topics
- Pathogenesis26▲ 3.5×22 topics
- Antioxidant25▲ 2.5×41 topics
- Immune Response24▲ 2.9×22 topics
- Food Security23▲ 2.9×24 topics
- Vaccine Development23▲ 6.0×11 topics
- Biodiversity Conservation22▲ 4.0×14 topics
- Democracy22▲ 4.3×14 topics
- Invasive Species22▲ 3.6×20 topics
- Health Education22▲ 3.5×11 topics
- Vaccine22▲ 3.7×11 topics
- Ethnic Identity20▲ 12×2 topics
- Medicinal Plants19▲ 3.3×18 topics
- Cultural Politics19▲ 19×2 topics
- Laos19▲ 91×1 topic
- Thailand19▲ 91×1 topic
- Anti-inflammatory18▲ 4.3×23 topics
- Monetary Policy18▲ 5.2×6 topics
- Land Use Change18▲ 4.0×8 topics
- Maternal Health17▲ 4.5×4 topics
- Economic Evaluation17▲ 9.9×2 topics
- Breastfeeding16▲ 4.8×3 topics
- Molecular Phylogeny16▲ 6.5×12 topics
- Financial Analysis15▲ 8.8×3 topics
- Market Competition15▲ 22×2 topics
- Asset Pricing14▲ 11×2 topics
- Panel Data Models14▲ 31×1 topic
- Stock Prices14▲ 46×1 topic
- Taxonomy14▲ 6.3×13 topics
Zambia
- Morphology
- Child Mortality
- Health Inequalities
- Vaccine
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Chemical Ecology
- Pheromones
- Food Security
- Economic Growth
- Environmental Challenge
- Social Capital
- Pest Management
- Host Specificity
- Lepidoptera
- Biological Control
- Evolution
- Conservation
- Invasive Species
- Climate Change
- Biodiversity
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Phylogeny
- DNA Barcoding
- Taxonomy
- Environmental Impact
- Cryptic Species
- Molecular Phylogenetics
- Ecological Impact
- Sustainable Energy
- Economic Assessment
- Water Hyacinth
- Economic Development
- Poverty Reduction
- Genetic Diversity
- Odor Source Localization
- Maternal Mortality
- Community Health Workers
- Socio-economic Factors
- Health Systems
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology502▲ 1.57×133 topics
- Biodiversity393▲ 6.4×34 topics
- Sustainability366▲ 1.86×95 topics
- Climate Change347▲ 1.59×107 topics
- Phylogeny319▲ 24×16 topics
- Invasive Species310▲ 9.1×21 topics
- DNA Barcoding306▲ 22×9 topics
- Conservation299▲ 8.7×21 topics
- Taxonomy294▲ 25×13 topics
- Evolution291▲ 14×15 topics
- Environmental Impact277▲ 2.0×59 topics
- Biological Control267▲ 22×9 topics
- Cryptic Species240▲ 117×2 topics
- Lepidoptera238▲ 156×1 topic
- Molecular Phylogenetics238▲ 156×1 topic
- Host Specificity220▲ 24×5 topics
- Ecological Impact202▲ 48×3 topics
- Pest Management200▲ 30×5 topics
- Sustainable Energy198▲ 13×4 topics
- Social Capital197▲ 4.7×20 topics
- Economic Assessment191▲ 87×2 topics
- Environmental Challenge191▲ 193×1 topic
- Water Hyacinth191▲ 193×1 topic
- Economic Growth179▲ 2.7×31 topics
- Economic Development171▲ 2.7×40 topics
- Food Security166▲ 3.8×21 topics
- Poverty Reduction159▲ 15×6 topics
- Pheromones142▲ 33×3 topics
- Genetic Diversity140▲ 4.0×21 topics
- Chemical Ecology139▲ 182×1 topic
- Odor Source Localization139▲ 182×1 topic
- Antiretroviral Therapy136▲ 10×6 topics
- Maternal Mortality132▲ 7.3×5 topics
- Vaccine132▲ 4.1×11 topics
- Community Health Workers121▲ 17×2 topics
- Health Inequalities114▲ 12×5 topics
- Socio-economic Factors111▲ 12×3 topics
- Child Mortality109▲ 19×1 topic
- Health Systems109▲ 19×1 topic
- Morphology106▲ 7.4×9 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?
Zambia has out-published Laos every year since 1980.
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.
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%).
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.
- 0In the world top 500
- 0In the top 1000
- 0In the top 5000
- 0In the top 1,0000
- #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, Laos or Zambia?
Zambia publishes 5.5× as much research as Laos in 2022-now (6.6k against 1.2k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Laos or Zambia?
7.2% of Laos's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.9% for Zambia.
Is Laos or Zambia growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +97% against 2018-21 for Zambia, and +81% for Laos.
Which has more open access research, Laos or Zambia?
71% of Zambia's research is free to read, against 66% of Laos's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Laos or Zambia?
Laos holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Zambia 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%.
Laos
- 1National University of Laos4.6% top 10% · 362 works
- 2Rural Development Agency7.7% top 10% · 144 works
- 3Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry8.4% top 10% · 213 works
- 4Ministry of Health6.3% top 10% · 120 works
- 5Souphanouvong University3.1% top 10% · 97 works
- 6National Institute of Public Health4.1% top 10% · 99 works
Zambia
- 1University of Zambia4.1% top 10% · 3k works
- 2Copperbelt University9.9% top 10% · 442 works
- 3University of Lusaka7.1% top 10% · 297 works
- 4Kwame Nkrumah University5.9% top 10% · 419 works
- 5University Teaching Hospital4.8% top 10% · 423 works
- 6Mulungushi University7.8% top 10% · 196 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.
Laos
- 1 Mayfong Mayxay #108,394 worldwide 33k citations · 323 works
- 2 Paul N. Newton #120,711 worldwide 47k citations · 583 works
- 3 Tamalee Roberts #271,991 worldwide 23k citations · 89 works
- 4 Koukeo Phommasone #403,495 worldwide 22k citations · 124 works
- 5 Thoumthone Vongvisouk #656,079 worldwide 786 citations · 32 works
Zambia
- 1 Ramasamy Subbaiya #37,734 worldwide 6.1k citations · 110 works
- 2 Matthew Bates #121,851 worldwide 9.2k citations · 157 works
- 3 Duncan M Chanda #189,837 worldwide 4.7k citations · 83 works
- 4 Enock Siankwilimba #204,647 worldwide 585 citations · 58 works
- 5 Monde Muyoyeta #219,462 worldwide 3.4k citations · 135 works