Lesotho vs Zimbabwe
On research quality in 2022-now, Zimbabwe ranks #75 in the world and Lesotho #164, of 189 countries. Lesotho stands higher in 0 of the 10 fields both publish in, Zimbabwe in 10.
Research profiles alike: 0.80very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured
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Lesotho
- World rank, 2022-now
- #164
- #158 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 516
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 7.0%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 56%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Archeology, Equine, Linguistics and Language.
Zimbabwe
- World rank, 2022-now
- #75
- #82 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 7.2k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 6.9%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 52%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Fuel Technology, Archeology, Public Administration.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Zimbabwe leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, output, citations per work and international co-authorship. Lesotho leads on 1 of 9 measures: open access. The two are level on excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, institutions in the world top 100 and growth.
- #164Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#75
- 0.85×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.83×
- 516Outputfractional works, 2022-now7.2k
- 7.0%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.9%
- 8.1Citations per workall time, per fractional work10.3
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 56%Open accessof its works free to read, all time52%
- 26%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time31%
- +52%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+51%
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?
Lesotho stands higher in 0 of 10 fields, Zimbabwe 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#74
- -Business, Management and Accounting#76
- -Computer Science#87
- -Economics, Econometrics and Finance#70
- -Engineering#97
- -Environmental Science#85
- -Health Professions#72
- -Medicine#62
- -Psychology#79
- -Social Sciences#72
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 | Lesotho rank | Zimbabwe rank | Lesotho top 10% | Zimbabwe top 10% | Lesotho works | Zimbabwe works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | - | #74 | - | 7.3% | - | 623 |
| Business, Management and Accounting | - | #76 | - | 6.0% | - | 548 |
| Computer Science | - | #87 | - | 6.8% | - | 336 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | - | #70 | - | 4.6% | - | 367 |
| Engineering | - | #97 | - | 4.3% | - | 677 |
| Environmental Science | - | #85 | - | 4.8% | - | 509 |
| Health Professions | - | #72 | - | 9.9% | - | 276 |
| Medicine | - | #62 | - | 9.9% | - | 785 |
| Psychology | - | #79 | - | 4.9% | - | 210 |
| Social Sciences | - | #72 | - | 7.3% | - | 2k |
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.
Lesotho
- Public Participation
- Legal Research
- Land Reform
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Judicial Review
- Lifelong Learning
- School Subsidies
- Governance
- Teacher Professional Development
- Reflective Practice
- Bilingual Education
- Gender Inequality
- Political Economy
- Teacher Training
- Social Capital
- Social Justice
- Poverty Reduction
- Higher Education
- Education
- Human Rights
- Globalization
- Colonialism
- Mental Health
- Economic Growth
- Nationalism
- Technology Integration
- Development
- Gender Equality
- Social Impact
- Multilingualism
- Language Policy
- Professional Development
- Student Perceptions
- Conditional Cash Transfers
- Sociolinguistics
- South Africa
- Inequality
- Environmental Governance
- Equality
- Consumer Protection
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Globalization35▲ 3.1×43 topics
- Human Rights27▲ 4.5×33 topics
- Colonialism25▲ 9.1×11 topics
- Education23▲ 2.3×29 topics
- Mental Health21▲ 2.6×19 topics
- Higher Education20▲ 6.5×12 topics
- Economic Growth18▲ 3.9×16 topics
- Poverty Reduction18▲ 24×5 topics
- Nationalism18▲ 6.9×6 topics
- Social Justice16▲ 4.5×19 topics
- Technology Integration14▲ 7.9×6 topics
- Social Capital14▲ 4.7×12 topics
- Development14▲ 6.6×13 topics
- Teacher Training14▲ 3.8×10 topics
- Gender Equality13▲ 8.0×10 topics
- Political Economy13▲ 8.6×9 topics
- Social Impact12▲ 5.5×6 topics
- Gender Inequality12▲ 15×5 topics
- Multilingualism12▲ 12×3 topics
- Bilingual Education11▲ 17×2 topics
- Language Policy11▲ 14×2 topics
- Reflective Practice11▲ 10×5 topics
- Professional Development11▲ 9.2×8 topics
- Teacher Professional Development11▲ 11×4 topics
- Student Perceptions11▲ 10×7 topics
- Governance10▲ 5.3×8 topics
- Conditional Cash Transfers10▲ 48×1 topic
- School Subsidies10▲ 48×1 topic
- Sociolinguistics10▲ 9.3×3 topics
- Lifelong Learning10▲ 7.9×7 topics
- South Africa9▲ 56×4 topics
- Judicial Review9▲ 18×2 topics
- Inequality9▲ 6.6×4 topics
- Antiretroviral Therapy8▲ 8.9×6 topics
- Environmental Governance8▲ 21×4 topics
- Land Reform8▲ 30×2 topics
- Equality8▲ 24×4 topics
- Legal Research8▲ 12×2 topics
- Consumer Protection8▲ 31×2 topics
- Public Participation8▲ 61×2 topics
Zimbabwe
- Community Health Workers
- Slum Upgrading
- Urban Poverty
- Smallholder Farmers
- Health Equity
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Vulnerability
- Gender Inequality
- Development
- Digital Transformation
- Poverty Reduction
- Higher Education
- COVID-19
- Environmental Impact
- Globalization
- Zimbabwe
- History
- Climate Change
- Sustainability
- Social Justice
- Colonialism
- Nationalism
- Political Economy
- Land Reform
- Agrarian Relations
- Sustainable Development
- Social Capital
- Mental Health
- Economic Growth
- Human Rights
- Innovation
- Economic Development
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Social Impact
- Poverty Alleviation
- Rural Development
- Land Tenure
- Postcolonialism
- Housing Policy
- Decolonization
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Colonialism557▲ 14×23 topics
- Social Justice455▲ 9.1×35 topics
- Nationalism444▲ 12×15 topics
- Sustainability430▲ 2.1×96 topics
- Political Economy415▲ 19×14 topics
- Climate Change406▲ 1.79×108 topics
- Land Reform389▲ 99×2 topics
- History388▲ 6.7×13 topics
- Agrarian Relations362▲ 470×1 topic
- Zimbabwe362▲ 470×1 topic
- Sustainable Development355▲ 2.7×84 topics
- Globalization319▲ 1.94×104 topics
- Social Capital236▲ 5.4×18 topics
- Environmental Impact225▲ 1.58×65 topics
- Mental Health203▲ 1.70×41 topics
- COVID-19196▲ 1.81×29 topics
- Economic Growth190▲ 2.8×30 topics
- Higher Education180▲ 4.0×27 topics
- Human Rights179▲ 2.1×51 topics
- Poverty Reduction175▲ 16×6 topics
- Innovation173▲ 2.0×56 topics
- Digital Transformation161▲ 3.6×22 topics
- Economic Development157▲ 2.4×38 topics
- Development142▲ 4.8×17 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture134▲ 5.2×14 topics
- Gender Inequality128▲ 11×6 topics
- Social Impact128▲ 3.9×15 topics
- Vulnerability125▲ 6.4×8 topics
- Poverty Alleviation124▲ 16×2 topics
- Antiretroviral Therapy122▲ 9.0×6 topics
- Rural Development122▲ 4.2×15 topics
- Health Equity115▲ 4.7×6 topics
- Land Tenure114▲ 33×2 topics
- Smallholder Farmers107▲ 6.1×6 topics
- Postcolonialism93▲ 7.8×10 topics
- Urban Poverty87▲ 24×2 topics
- Housing Policy87▲ 37×1 topic
- Slum Upgrading87▲ 37×1 topic
- Decolonization86▲ 13×7 topics
- Community Health Workers84▲ 11×2 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?
Zimbabwe has out-published Lesotho 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, Lesotho or Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe publishes 14.0× as much research as Lesotho in 2022-now (7.2k against 516 fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Lesotho or Zimbabwe?
7.0% of Lesotho's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.9% for Zimbabwe.
Is Lesotho or Zimbabwe growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +52% against 2018-21 for Lesotho, and +51% for Zimbabwe.
Which has more open access research, Lesotho or Zimbabwe?
56% of Lesotho's research is free to read, against 52% of Zimbabwe's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Lesotho or Zimbabwe?
Lesotho holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Zimbabwe 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%.
Lesotho
- 1National University of Lesotho6.7% top 10% · 482 works
Zimbabwe
- 1University of Zimbabwe6.5% top 10% · 1.5k works
- 2National University of Science and Technology6.3% top 10% · 1.2k works
- 3Great Zimbabwe University5.6% top 10% · 524 works
- 4Midlands State University6.6% top 10% · 1.1k works
- 5Chinhoyi University of Technology6.9% top 10% · 389 works
- 6Harare Institute of Technology3.4% top 10% · 228 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.
Lesotho
- 1 Rethabile Rosemary Molefi #560,261 worldwide 518 citations · 24 works
- 2 John Batani #1,060,934 worldwide 1.2k citations · 55 works
- 3 Lucy Nthabiseng Makoae #1,254,679 worldwide 1.6k citations · 23 works
- 4 Makhulu Alice Makumane #1,641,636 worldwide 171 citations · 27 works
- 5 Ramaele Moshoeshoe #2,029,182 worldwide 69 citations · 18 works
Zimbabwe
- 1 Jephat Chifamba #20,133 worldwide 23k citations · 165 works
- 2 Brighton Nyagadza #68,624 worldwide 1.6k citations · 133 works
- 3 Régis Chikowo #103,612 worldwide 6.2k citations · 178 works
- 4 Christian Thierfelder #135,188 worldwide 10k citations · 271 works
- 5 Willis Gwenzi #170,977 worldwide 8.2k citations · 219 works