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Mali vs Uzbekistan

On research quality in 2022-now, Mali ranks #118 in the world and Uzbekistan #121, of 189 countries. Mali stands higher in 2 of the 20 fields both publish in, Uzbekistan in 18.

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Mali

World rank, 2022-now
#118
#81 all time
Works, 2022-now
1.9k
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.0%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
62%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Medical Terminology, Forestry, Horticulture.

Uzbekistan

World rank, 2022-now
#121
#164 all time
Works, 2022-now
48k
fractional
Top-10% rate
6.1%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
68%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Aquatic Science, Anatomy, Nuclear Energy and Engineering.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Mali leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, citations per work and international co-authorship. Uzbekistan leads on 4 of 9 measures: output, top-10% rate, open access and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Mali 41 level4 Uzbekistan
  1. #118Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#121
  2. 0.56×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.46×
  3. 1.9kOutputfractional works, 2022-now48k
  4. 5.0%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.1%
  5. 14.4Citations per workall time, per fractional work2.1
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 62%Open accessof its works free to read, all time68%
  8. 46%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time13%
  9. +9%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+108%

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?

Mali stands higher in 2 of 20 fields, Uzbekistan in 18. Uzbekistan leads most in Social Sciences (#115 against #119); Mali leads most in Medicine (#88 against #151). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Mali 218 Uzbekistan
  1. #73Agricultural and Biological Sciences#88
  2. -Arts and Humanities#87
  3. -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#99
  4. -Business, Management and Accounting#102
  5. -Chemistry#66
  6. -Computer Science#96
  7. -Decision Sciences#74
  8. -Earth and Planetary Sciences#76
  9. -Economics, Econometrics and Finance#74
  10. -Energy#64
  11. -Engineering#78
  12. -Environmental Science#117
  13. -Health Professions#91
  14. -Materials Science#62
  15. -Mathematics#57
  16. #88Medicine#151
  17. -Neuroscience#70
  18. -Physics and Astronomy#56
  19. -Psychology#103
  20. #119Social Sciences#115

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 Mali rankUzbekistan rank Mali top 10%Uzbekistan top 10% Mali worksUzbekistan works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #73 #88 7.4% 8.0% 261 3.9k
Arts and Humanities - #87 - 4.9% - 2.5k
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - #99 - 3.2% - 774
Business, Management and Accounting - #102 - 5.8% - 1.6k
Chemistry - #66 - 2.9% - 571
Computer Science - #96 - 6.5% - 3.1k
Decision Sciences - #74 - 5.9% - 263
Earth and Planetary Sciences - #76 - 5.8% - 318
Economics, Econometrics and Finance - #74 - 7.6% - 3k
Energy - #64 - 7.9% - 558
Engineering - #78 - 7.9% - 6.6k
Environmental Science - #117 - 5.5% - 1.4k
Health Professions - #91 - 5.0% - 1.4k
Materials Science - #62 - 6.0% - 1.4k
Mathematics - #57 - 8.0% - 1.2k
Medicine #88 #151 2.6% 1.7% 792 4.2k
Neuroscience - #70 - 3.4% - 282
Physics and Astronomy - #56 - 10.6% - 1.1k
Psychology - #103 - 3.3% - 1k
Social Sciences #119 #115 6.9% 6.3% 221 12k

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.

Mali

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology278▲ 3.2×126 topics
  2. Climate Change132▲ 2.2×76 topics
  3. Public Health110▲ 3.5×54 topics
  4. Sustainability107▲ 2.0×62 topics
  5. Smallholder Farmers101▲ 22×6 topics
  6. Adaptation77▲ 12×9 topics
  7. Diagnosis76▲ 3.7×38 topics
  8. Treatment69▲ 2.6×44 topics
  9. Agroecology64▲ 21×3 topics
  10. Vaccine Development64▲ 11×11 topics
  11. Agricultural Development62▲ 18×5 topics
  12. Diversity61▲ 16×5 topics
  13. Multifunctionality61▲ 60×2 topics
  14. Livestock Farming61▲ 47×3 topics
  15. Global Burden61▲ 5.1×12 topics
  16. Work Organization60▲ 72×1 topic
  17. Maternal Mortality58▲ 12×5 topics
  18. Immune Response57▲ 4.6×17 topics
  19. Sustainable Agriculture53▲ 7.8×12 topics
  20. Pathogenesis50▲ 4.4×22 topics
  21. Vaccine48▲ 5.5×11 topics
  22. Primary Care44▲ 5.4×12 topics
  23. Health Inequalities44▲ 16×3 topics
  24. Community Health Workers43▲ 22×2 topics
  25. Socio-economic Factors43▲ 18×3 topics
  26. Social Determinants of Health42▲ 8.9×6 topics
  27. Child Mortality42▲ 27×1 topic
  28. Health Systems42▲ 27×1 topic
  29. Insecticide Resistance40▲ 23×4 topics
  30. Genome Sequence39▲ 21×4 topics
  31. Digital Health37▲ 15×3 topics
  32. Healthcare Policy36▲ 18×3 topics
  33. Artemisinin Resistance36▲ 49×1 topic
  34. Plasmodium falciparum36▲ 49×1 topic
  35. Healthcare Management35▲ 20×2 topics
  36. Healthcare Quality Indicators34▲ 27×2 topics
  37. Inequalities34▲ 49×1 topic
  38. Universal Health Coverage34▲ 49×1 topic
  39. Maternal and Child Undernutrition31▲ 17×1 topic
  40. Water Sanitation Hygiene31▲ 17×1 topic

Uzbekistan

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's
All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Pedagogy7,132▲ 21×26 topics
  2. Language Teaching6,555▲ 37×8 topics
  3. Digital Education6,332▲ 64×7 topics
  4. Educational Technologies6,278▲ 104×2 topics
  5. Tourism Development6,095▲ 67×2 topics
  6. Teaching Methods6,091▲ 57×10 topics
  7. Critical Thinking6,061▲ 79×5 topics
  8. Formative Assessment6,046▲ 109×2 topics
  9. Artistic Education6,019▲ 139×1 topic
  10. Student Competencies6,019▲ 139×1 topic
  11. Globalization5,596▲ 4.3×147 topics
  12. Sustainability4,687▲ 2.9×125 topics
  13. Digital Economy4,324▲ 32×18 topics
  14. Entrepreneurship4,139▲ 16×22 topics
  15. Economic Development4,107▲ 7.7×48 topics
  16. Renewable Energy3,494▲ 3.6×60 topics
  17. Sustainable Development3,486▲ 3.4×102 topics
  18. Investment3,309▲ 44×6 topics
  19. Industrial Enterprises3,228▲ 143×1 topic
  20. Innovation Economics3,228▲ 143×1 topic
  21. Innovation2,735▲ 4.0×81 topics
  22. Education2,463▲ 2.2×132 topics
  23. Educational Technology2,452▲ 3.1×45 topics
  24. Energy Consumption2,050▲ 14×8 topics
  25. E-Learning2,039▲ 3.2×26 topics
  26. History2,007▲ 4.3×50 topics
  27. Climate Change Impact1,988▲ 13×8 topics
  28. Irrigation1,929▲ 150×1 topic
  29. Water Efficiency1,929▲ 150×1 topic
  30. Online Learning1,812▲ 3.3×26 topics
  31. Language1,754▲ 11×15 topics
  32. Philosophy1,753▲ 6.0×39 topics
  33. Digitalization1,460▲ 11×14 topics
  34. Ethnicity1,436▲ 5.8×22 topics
  35. Global Governance1,426▲ 8.9×23 topics
  36. Migration1,397▲ 6.2×31 topics
  37. Legal Regulation1,363▲ 9.1×8 topics
  38. Economic Security1,301▲ 9.2×7 topics
  39. Islam1,195▲ 8.7×5 topics
  40. Social Influence1,194▲ 8.5×3 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?

Uzbekistan has out-published Mali every year since 1980.

still counting10k20kUzbekistan14k in 2025Mali378 in 20251990200020102020

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.

still counting0.10%0.20%0.30%Uzbekistan0.24% in 2025Mali0.0064% in 202519801990200020102020

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%).

still counting10%20%Mali6.6% in 2025Uzbekistan5.4% in 2025200020102020

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.

Mali 05 level0 Uzbekistan
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 0In the top 5000
  4. 0In the top 1,0000
  5. #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, Mali or Uzbekistan?

Uzbekistan publishes 24.6× as much research as Mali in 2022-now (48k against 1.9k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Mali or Uzbekistan?

6.1% of Uzbekistan's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.0% for Mali.

Is Mali or Uzbekistan growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +108% against 2018-21 for Uzbekistan, and +9% for Mali.

Which has more open access research, Mali or Uzbekistan?

68% of Uzbekistan's research is free to read, against 62% of Mali's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Mali or Uzbekistan?

Mali holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Uzbekistan 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%.

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.

Mali

  1. 1 Samba Ousmane Sow #66,530 worldwide 20k citations · 379 works
  2. 2 Robert B. Zougmoré #67,997 worldwide 8.3k citations · 341 works
  3. 3 Ogobara K. Doumbo #80,129 worldwide 33k citations · 514 works
  4. 4 Boubou Tamboura #86,714 worldwide 10k citations · 63 works
  5. 5 Kassoum Kayentao #103,548 worldwide 9k citations · 217 works

Uzbekistan

  1. 1 Farruh Atamurotov #8,102 worldwide 5.7k citations · 283 works
  2. 2 Javlon Rayimbaev #10,233 worldwide 3.6k citations · 178 works
  3. 3 Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov #23,455 worldwide 7.2k citations · 268 works
  4. 4 Inomjon Ibragimov #46,540 worldwide 554 citations · 53 works
  5. 5 Bobomurat J. Ahmedov #76,306 worldwide 8.6k citations · 318 works