Malawi vs Sierra Leone
On research quality in 2022-now, Malawi ranks #61 in the world and Sierra Leone #112, of 189 countries. Malawi stands higher in 4 of the 4 fields both publish in, Sierra Leone in 0.
Research profiles alike: 0.93very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured
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Malawi
- World rank, 2022-now
- #61
- #55 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 3k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 9.5%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 63%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Forestry, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Parasitology.
Sierra Leone
- World rank, 2022-now
- #112
- #98 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 1.1k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 6.6%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 68%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Horticulture, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Development.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Malawi leads on 6 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, citations per work and international co-authorship. Sierra Leone leads on 2 of 9 measures: open access and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.
- #61Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#112
- 1.12×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.93×
- 3kOutputfractional works, 2022-now1.1k
- 9.5%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.6%
- 16.6Citations per workall time, per fractional work8.9
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 63%Open accessof its works free to read, all time68%
- 49%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time39%
- +46%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+104%
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?
Malawi stands higher in 4 of 4 fields, Sierra Leone in 0. Malawi leads most in Medicine (#45 against #99). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- #51Agricultural and Biological Sciences-
- #72Environmental Science-
- #45Medicine#99
- #65Social Sciences#107
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 | Malawi rank | Sierra Leone rank | Malawi top 10% | Sierra Leone top 10% | Malawi works | Sierra Leone works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | #51 | - | 11.7% | - | 336 | - |
| Environmental Science | #72 | - | 7.4% | - | 275 | - |
| Medicine | #45 | #99 | 11.8% | 8.7% | 641 | 209 |
| Social Sciences | #65 | #107 | 8.2% | 5.1% | 534 | 209 |
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.
Malawi
- Global Health
- Livelihood Diversification
- Preexposure Prophylaxis
- Vulnerability
- Gender Inequality
- Water Sanitation Hygiene
- Technology Adoption
- Global Burden of Disease
- Colonialism
- Poverty Reduction
- Rural Development
- Food Security
- Child Development
- Health Systems
- Biodiversity
- Health Inequalities
- Community Health Workers
- Maternal Mortality
- Globalization
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Environmental Impact
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Socio-economic Factors
- Child Mortality
- Smallholder Farmers
- Social Networks
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Global Burden
- Vaccine
- Genetic Diversity
- Mortality Rates
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition
- HIV Transmission
- Viral Load
- Agricultural Innovation
- Stigma and Discrimination
- Market Participation
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology245▲ 1.73×119 topics
- Climate Change202▲ 2.1×103 topics
- Sustainability141▲ 1.62×81 topics
- Globalization99▲ 1.41×86 topics
- Environmental Impact98▲ 1.61×51 topics
- Maternal Mortality91▲ 11×5 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture88▲ 8.0×13 topics
- Community Health Workers87▲ 28×2 topics
- Antiretroviral Therapy80▲ 14×6 topics
- Health Inequalities76▲ 18×4 topics
- Socio-economic Factors75▲ 19×2 topics
- Biodiversity74▲ 2.8×32 topics
- Child Mortality74▲ 29×1 topic
- Health Systems74▲ 29×1 topic
- Smallholder Farmers73▲ 9.8×6 topics
- Child Development72▲ 5.0×8 topics
- Social Networks70▲ 7.2×9 topics
- Food Security65▲ 3.4×20 topics
- Biodiversity Conservation65▲ 4.8×16 topics
- Rural Development64▲ 5.3×15 topics
- Global Burden62▲ 3.2×12 topics
- Poverty Reduction62▲ 13×5 topics
- Vaccine60▲ 4.2×11 topics
- Colonialism58▲ 3.5×17 topics
- Genetic Diversity58▲ 3.8×20 topics
- Global Burden of Disease57▲ 6.5×4 topics
- Mortality Rates53▲ 16×2 topics
- Technology Adoption53▲ 8.0×6 topics
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition52▲ 18×1 topic
- Water Sanitation Hygiene52▲ 18×1 topic
- HIV Transmission51▲ 19×2 topics
- Gender Inequality48▲ 9.7×6 topics
- Viral Load47▲ 17×2 topics
- Vulnerability47▲ 5.7×8 topics
- Agricultural Innovation44▲ 27×3 topics
- Preexposure Prophylaxis44▲ 26×1 topic
- Stigma and Discrimination44▲ 26×1 topic
- Livelihood Diversification44▲ 39×1 topic
- Market Participation44▲ 39×1 topic
- Global Health42▲ 7.6×6 topics
Sierra Leone
- Knowledge Economy
- Finance
- Inequality
- Global Burden of Disease
- Corruption
- Reservoirs
- Adaptation
- Transmission
- Genetic Diversity
- Infectious Diseases
- Economic Development
- Health Systems
- Poverty Reduction
- Community Health Workers
- Pathogenesis
- Maternal Mortality
- Fiscal Policy
- Public Health
- Globalization
- Economic Growth
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Sustainability
- Environmental Impact
- Vaccine
- Governance
- Immune Response
- Health Inequalities
- Child Mortality
- Institutional Quality
- Risk Management
- Smallholder Farmers
- Regulation
- Outbreak
- Ebola Virus
- ICT
- Gender Equality
- Monetary Policy
- Global Health
- Inclusive Development
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology78▲ 1.48×79 topics
- Economic Growth68▲ 6.3×21 topics
- Climate Change66▲ 1.86×62 topics
- Globalization59▲ 2.3×48 topics
- Sustainability56▲ 1.76×50 topics
- Public Health45▲ 2.4×40 topics
- Environmental Impact41▲ 1.83×44 topics
- Fiscal Policy40▲ 15×6 topics
- Vaccine38▲ 7.3×10 topics
- Maternal Mortality37▲ 13×5 topics
- Governance36▲ 8.5×9 topics
- Pathogenesis36▲ 5.4×18 topics
- Immune Response36▲ 4.8×12 topics
- Community Health Workers35▲ 30×2 topics
- Health Inequalities34▲ 21×3 topics
- Poverty Reduction33▲ 19×5 topics
- Child Mortality32▲ 34×1 topic
- Health Systems32▲ 34×1 topic
- Institutional Quality31▲ 23×2 topics
- Economic Development30▲ 2.9×20 topics
- Risk Management30▲ 4.8×10 topics
- Infectious Diseases28▲ 6.4×8 topics
- Smallholder Farmers28▲ 10×5 topics
- Genetic Diversity27▲ 4.7×17 topics
- Regulation26▲ 3.8×11 topics
- Transmission26▲ 36×3 topics
- Outbreak24▲ 49×2 topics
- Adaptation24▲ 6.2×7 topics
- Ebola Virus24▲ 65×1 topic
- Reservoirs24▲ 65×1 topic
- ICT22▲ 13×3 topics
- Corruption22▲ 11×6 topics
- Gender Equality21▲ 5.8×11 topics
- Global Burden of Disease21▲ 6.4×4 topics
- Monetary Policy21▲ 6.6×7 topics
- Inequality20▲ 6.8×5 topics
- Global Health20▲ 9.6×4 topics
- Finance20▲ 8.1×3 topics
- Inclusive Development19▲ 33×2 topics
- Knowledge Economy18▲ 13×2 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?
Malawi has out-published Sierra Leone 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, Malawi or Sierra Leone?
Malawi publishes 2.8× as much research as Sierra Leone in 2022-now (3k against 1.1k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Malawi or Sierra Leone?
9.5% of Malawi's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.6% for Sierra Leone.
Is Malawi or Sierra Leone growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +104% against 2018-21 for Sierra Leone, and +46% for Malawi.
Which has more open access research, Malawi or Sierra Leone?
68% of Sierra Leone's research is free to read, against 63% of Malawi's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Malawi or Sierra Leone?
Malawi holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Sierra Leone 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%.
Malawi
- 1University of Malawi9.1% top 10% · 650 works
- 2Kamuzu Central Hospital12.3% top 10% · 279 works
- 3Ministry of Education Science and Technology7.7% top 10% · 312 works
- 4Mzuzu University6.9% top 10% · 241 works
- 5Malawi University of Science and Technology6.9% top 10% · 172 works
- 6Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources11.0% top 10% · 243 works
Sierra Leone
- 1University of Sierra Leone5.1% top 10% · 501 works
- 2Njala University6.9% top 10% · 307 works
- 3University of Makeni5.7% top 10% · 66 works
- 4Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute7.9% top 10% · 73 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.
Malawi
- 1 Amelia Catharine Crampin #138,780 worldwide 23k citations · 372 works
- 2 Kelias Phiri Msyamboza #162,077 worldwide 12k citations · 53 works
- 3 Eduard E. Zijlstra #238,180 worldwide 4.8k citations · 91 works
- 4 Elsbeth Robson #239,786 worldwide 3k citations · 121 works
- 5 Felix Khuluza #244,579 worldwide 1.6k citations · 40 works
Sierra Leone
- 1 Haja Ramatulai Wurie #161,092 worldwide 2.4k citations · 68 works
- 2 Amara Jambai #176,221 worldwide 3.4k citations · 97 works
- 3 Rashid Ansumana #239,551 worldwide 4.4k citations · 163 works
- 4 Abdul Salami Bah #270,549 worldwide 111 citations · 29 works
- 5 Augustus Osborne #296,042 worldwide 4k citations · 162 works