Madagascar vs Niger
On research quality in 2022-now, Madagascar ranks #122 in the world and Niger #147, of 189 countries. Madagascar stands higher in 2 of the 2 fields both publish in, Niger in 0.
Research profiles alike: 0.77very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured
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Madagascar
- World rank, 2022-now
- #122
- #123 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 1.6k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 4.9%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 65%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Horticulture, Developmental Biology, Forestry.
Niger
- World rank, 2022-now
- #147
- #130 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 1.5k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 4.0%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 47%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Forestry, Medical Terminology, Library and Information Sciences.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Madagascar leads on 6 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, open access and international co-authorship. Niger leads on 1 of 9 measures: growth. The two are level on citations per work and institutions in the world top 100.
- #122Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#147
- 0.67×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.60×
- 1.6kOutputfractional works, 2022-now1.5k
- 4.9%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited4.0%
- 10.3Citations per workall time, per fractional work10.5
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 65%Open accessof its works free to read, all time47%
- 42%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time36%
- +24%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+29%
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?
Madagascar stands higher in 2 of 2 fields, Niger in 0. Madagascar leads most in Medicine (#98 against #120). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- #93Agricultural and Biological Sciences#98
- #98Medicine#120
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 | Madagascar rank | Niger rank | Madagascar top 10% | Niger top 10% | Madagascar works | Niger works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | #93 | #98 | 6.7% | 4.3% | 208 | 345 |
| Medicine | #98 | #120 | 4.0% | 2.9% | 440 | 373 |
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.
Madagascar
- Nutritional Value
- Primates
- Cooperation
- Cognition
- Agroforestry
- Altruism
- Vaccine Development
- Work Organization
- Agricultural Development
- Habitat Fragmentation
- Invasive Species
- Global Burden
- Diversity
- Evolution
- Adaptation
- Diagnosis
- Sustainable Development
- Biodiversity
- Smallholder Farmers
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Public Health
- Environmental Impact
- Treatment
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Population Dynamics
- Immune Response
- Genetic Diversity
- Agroecology
- Livestock Farming
- Vaccine
- Multifunctionality
- Conservation
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Conservation Biology
- Biodiversity Loss
- Social Behavior
- Intelligence
- Climate Resilience
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology174▲ 2.2×117 topics
- Climate Change162▲ 3.0×81 topics
- Sustainability85▲ 1.76×71 topics
- Smallholder Farmers62▲ 15×6 topics
- Public Health61▲ 2.1×46 topics
- Biodiversity57▲ 3.8×31 topics
- Environmental Impact53▲ 1.58×49 topics
- Sustainable Development49▲ 1.57×47 topics
- Treatment47▲ 1.96×39 topics
- Diagnosis46▲ 2.5×36 topics
- Biodiversity Conservation45▲ 6.1×14 topics
- Adaptation44▲ 7.5×10 topics
- Population Dynamics43▲ 8.4×12 topics
- Evolution41▲ 7.7×16 topics
- Immune Response38▲ 3.4×18 topics
- Diversity38▲ 11×6 topics
- Genetic Diversity38▲ 4.4×21 topics
- Global Burden37▲ 3.4×12 topics
- Agroecology36▲ 13×4 topics
- Invasive Species35▲ 4.2×20 topics
- Livestock Farming35▲ 30×3 topics
- Habitat Fragmentation34▲ 8.0×5 topics
- Vaccine33▲ 4.2×11 topics
- Agricultural Development33▲ 11×3 topics
- Multifunctionality33▲ 36×2 topics
- Work Organization33▲ 43×1 topic
- Conservation32▲ 3.8×18 topics
- Vaccine Development32▲ 6.3×11 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture31▲ 5.1×10 topics
- Altruism30▲ 18×5 topics
- Conservation Biology28▲ 13×4 topics
- Agroforestry24▲ 18×4 topics
- Biodiversity Loss23▲ 21×3 topics
- Cognition22▲ 7.8×2 topics
- Social Behavior22▲ 19×2 topics
- Cooperation22▲ 17×3 topics
- Intelligence22▲ 26×1 topic
- Primates22▲ 57×1 topic
- Climate Resilience22▲ 18×3 topics
- Nutritional Value21▲ 9.6×4 topics
Niger
- Phytochemicals
- Health Inequalities
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition
- Agricultural Sustainability
- Maternal Mortality
- Breeding
- Drought Tolerance
- Nutritional Quality
- Remote Sensing
- Tree Domestication
- Rural Livelihoods
- Public Health
- Nutritional Value
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Multifunctionality
- Agroecology
- Diversity
- Smallholder Farmers
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Sustainability
- Adaptation
- Livestock Farming
- Agricultural Development
- Work Organization
- Climate Resilience
- Genetic Diversity
- Agroforestry
- Globalization
- Indigenous Fruits
- Environmental Impact
- Vaccine
- Food Security
- Pathogenesis
- Vaccine Development
- Global Burden of Disease
- Marker Development
- Water Sanitation Hygiene
- Community Health Workers
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Climate Change186▲ 3.8×72 topics
- Epidemiology162▲ 2.3×109 topics
- Sustainability152▲ 3.5×52 topics
- Smallholder Farmers150▲ 40×6 topics
- Adaptation112▲ 21×7 topics
- Diversity92▲ 29×7 topics
- Livestock Farming91▲ 86×3 topics
- Agroecology91▲ 36×2 topics
- Agricultural Development89▲ 33×2 topics
- Multifunctionality89▲ 106×1 topic
- Work Organization89▲ 129×1 topic
- Sustainable Agriculture72▲ 13×9 topics
- Climate Resilience69▲ 64×3 topics
- Biodiversity Conservation66▲ 9.8×12 topics
- Genetic Diversity58▲ 7.5×19 topics
- Nutritional Value57▲ 28×3 topics
- Agroforestry55▲ 46×4 topics
- Public Health52▲ 2.0×48 topics
- Globalization52▲ 1.48×56 topics
- Rural Livelihoods51▲ 53×2 topics
- Indigenous Fruits50▲ 123×1 topic
- Tree Domestication50▲ 123×1 topic
- Environmental Impact50▲ 1.63×46 topics
- Remote Sensing42▲ 1.94×25 topics
- Vaccine40▲ 5.6×11 topics
- Nutritional Quality36▲ 28×4 topics
- Food Security34▲ 3.5×15 topics
- Drought Tolerance34▲ 14×8 topics
- Pathogenesis34▲ 3.7×19 topics
- Breeding28▲ 21×5 topics
- Vaccine Development28▲ 6.0×10 topics
- Maternal Mortality27▲ 6.8×5 topics
- Global Burden of Disease25▲ 5.5×4 topics
- Agricultural Sustainability22▲ 11×4 topics
- Marker Development22▲ 27×3 topics
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition22▲ 15×1 topic
- Water Sanitation Hygiene22▲ 15×1 topic
- Health Inequalities22▲ 9.9×3 topics
- Community Health Workers21▲ 13×2 topics
- Phytochemicals20▲ 10×5 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?
Madagascar has out-published Niger every year since 2025, when it overtook it.
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, Madagascar or Niger?
Madagascar publishes 1.1× as much research as Niger in 2022-now (1.6k against 1.5k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Madagascar or Niger?
4.9% of Madagascar's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.0% for Niger.
Is Madagascar or Niger growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +29% against 2018-21 for Niger, and +24% for Madagascar.
Which has more open access research, Madagascar or Niger?
65% of Madagascar's research is free to read, against 47% of Niger's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Madagascar or Niger?
Madagascar holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Niger 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%.
Madagascar
- 1University of Antananarivo3.7% top 10% · 680 works
- 2Université de Fianarantsoa2.0% top 10% · 126 works
- 3Université de Mahajanga3.3% top 10% · 106 works
- 4University of Toliara4.7% top 10% · 80 works
- 5Centre National de la Recherche Appliquée au Developpement Rural9.8% top 10% · 71 works
- 6Université d’Antsiranana2.5% top 10% · 64 works
Niger
- 1Université Abdou Moumouni3.2% top 10% · 539 works
- 2Université de Maradi3.2% top 10% · 135 works
- 3National Hospital Niamey2.5% top 10% · 161 works
- 4Ministère de la Santé Publique5.7% top 10% · 91 works
- 5Université André Salifou2.7% top 10% · 95 works
- 6Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger6.5% top 10% · 110 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.
Madagascar
- 1 O. Sarobidy Rakotonarivo #151,541 worldwide 1.7k citations · 59 works
- 2 Chantal Radimilahy #278,586 worldwide 2.1k citations · 51 works
- 3 Jonah Ratsimbazafy #334,732 worldwide 4k citations · 112 works
- 4 Jean‐Michel Héraud #497,740 worldwide 7.2k citations · 222 works
- 5 Patrice Piola #621,069 worldwide 3.7k citations · 128 works
Niger
- 1 Amadou Garba #483,222 worldwide 5.2k citations · 160 works
- 2 Abdou Ali #737,227 worldwide 2.9k citations · 72 works
- 3 Amina Amadou Hamidou #897,228 worldwide 804 citations · 33 works
- 4 Mahamadou Bassirou Souleymane #1,126,005 worldwide 1.2k citations · 28 works
- 5 Ousmane Guindo #1,234,502 worldwide 1.2k citations · 79 works