Madagascar vs Papua New Guinea
On research quality in 2022-now, Madagascar ranks #122 in the world and Papua New Guinea #125, of 189 countries. Madagascar stands higher in 2 of the 2 fields both publish in, Papua New Guinea in 0.
Research profiles alike: 0.62similar 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.
Papua New Guinea
- World rank, 2022-now
- #125
- #125 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 764
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 7.2%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 35%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Horticulture, Agronomy and Crop Science, Theoretical Computer Science.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Madagascar leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, output, open access and international co-authorship. Papua New Guinea leads on 4 of 9 measures: citation excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.
- #122Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#125
- 0.67×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.85×
- 1.6kOutputfractional works, 2022-now764
- 4.9%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited7.2%
- 10.3Citations per workall time, per fractional work14.9
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 65%Open accessof its works free to read, all time35%
- 42%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time38%
- +24%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+48%
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, citation excellence and the top-10% rate are explained in the methodology.
Who leads in each field?
Madagascar stands higher in 2 of 2 fields, Papua New Guinea in 0. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
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 | Papua New Guinea rank | Madagascar top 10% | Papua New Guinea top 10% | Madagascar works | Papua New Guinea works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | #93 | - | 6.7% | - | 208 | - |
| Medicine | #98 | - | 4.0% | - | 440 | - |
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
Papua New Guinea
- Health Systems
- Essential Oils
- Islands
- Pacific
- Climate Resilience
- Pacific Islands
- Community Health Workers
- Island Ecosystems
- Maternal Mortality
- Smallholder Farmers
- Ethical Considerations
- Nutritional Quality
- Drought Tolerance
- Agriculture
- Economic Development
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Vulnerability
- Machine Learning
- Genetic Diversity
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
- Environmental Impact
- Epidemiology
- Globalization
- Biodiversity
- Supply Chain Management
- Genetics
- Breeding
- Food Security
- Governance
- Decolonization
- Archaeology
- Pest Management
- Cultural History
- Health Inequalities
- settlement
- Marker Development
- Socio-economic Factors
- Small States
- Child Mortality
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Climate Change63▲ 2.6×71 topics
- Sustainability62▲ 2.8×52 topics
- Environmental Impact50▲ 3.2×43 topics
- Genetic Diversity45▲ 11×19 topics
- Epidemiology42▲ 1.16×77 topics
- Machine Learning41▲ 1.35×61 topics
- Globalization36▲ 2.0×34 topics
- Vulnerability22▲ 10×7 topics
- Biodiversity22▲ 3.1×24 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture20▲ 7.2×13 topics
- Supply Chain Management20▲ 2.4×14 topics
- Economic Development19▲ 2.6×16 topics
- Genetics19▲ 3.0×18 topics
- Agriculture19▲ 5.4×10 topics
- Breeding18▲ 27×5 topics
- Drought Tolerance18▲ 15×8 topics
- Food Security17▲ 3.5×20 topics
- Nutritional Quality16▲ 25×4 topics
- Governance15▲ 5.2×8 topics
- Ethical Considerations15▲ 4.8×11 topics
- Decolonization15▲ 20×5 topics
- Smallholder Farmers14▲ 7.4×6 topics
- Archaeology13▲ 11×2 topics
- Maternal Mortality13▲ 6.4×5 topics
- Pest Management13▲ 17×5 topics
- Island Ecosystems13▲ 44×2 topics
- Cultural History13▲ 12×2 topics
- Community Health Workers12▲ 16×2 topics
- Health Inequalities12▲ 11×3 topics
- Pacific Islands12▲ 113×1 topic
- settlement12▲ 113×1 topic
- Climate Resilience12▲ 22×3 topics
- Marker Development12▲ 28×3 topics
- Pacific12▲ 70×2 topics
- Socio-economic Factors12▲ 12×2 topics
- Islands12▲ 117×1 topic
- Small States12▲ 117×1 topic
- Essential Oils12▲ 12×3 topics
- Child Mortality12▲ 18×1 topic
- Health Systems12▲ 18×1 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?
Madagascar has out-published Papua New Guinea every year since 2002, 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 Papua New Guinea?
Madagascar publishes 2.2× as much research as Papua New Guinea in 2022-now (1.6k against 764 fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Madagascar or Papua New Guinea?
7.2% of Papua New Guinea's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.9% for Madagascar.
Is Madagascar or Papua New Guinea growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +48% against 2018-21 for Papua New Guinea, and +24% for Madagascar.
Which has more open access research, Madagascar or Papua New Guinea?
65% of Madagascar's research is free to read, against 35% of Papua New Guinea's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Madagascar or Papua New Guinea?
Madagascar holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Papua New Guinea 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
Papua New Guinea
- 1Papua New Guinea University of Technology6.3% top 10% · 258 works
- 2University of Papua New Guinea7.8% top 10% · 106 works
- 3National Agricultural Research Institute7.3% top 10% · 200 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
Papua New Guinea
- 1 Leanne J. Robinson #111,710 worldwide 7.4k citations · 206 works
- 2 Livingstone Tavul #186,317 worldwide 3k citations · 52 works
- 3 Enmoore Lin #330,527 worldwide 4.6k citations · 77 works
- 4 Peter Siba #342,115 worldwide 8.8k citations · 200 works
- 5 Michael P. Alpers #352,550 worldwide 16k citations · 278 works