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Malta vs Palestine

On research quality in 2022-now, Palestine ranks #86 in the world and Malta #100, of 189 countries. Malta stands higher in 1 of the 11 fields both publish in, Palestine in 10.

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Malta

World rank, 2022-now
#100
#93 all time
Works, 2022-now
4k
fractional
Top-10% rate
8.7%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
49%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Space and Planetary Science, Medical Terminology, Archeology.

Palestine

World rank, 2022-now
#86
#109 all time
Works, 2022-now
6.9k
fractional
Top-10% rate
12.4%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
63%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Research and Theory, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Accounting.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Palestine leads on 7 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, open access, international co-authorship and growth. Malta leads on 1 of 9 measures: citations per work. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Malta 11 level7 Palestine
  1. #100Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#86
  2. 0.79×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.93×
  3. 4kOutputfractional works, 2022-now6.9k
  4. 8.7%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited12.4%
  5. 12.7Citations per workall time, per fractional work11.4
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 49%Open accessof its works free to read, all time63%
  8. 30%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time35%
  9. +11%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+60%

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?

Malta stands higher in 1 of 11 fields, Palestine in 10. Palestine leads most in Social Sciences (#86 against #116). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Malta 110 Palestine
  1. -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#105
  2. #58Arts and Humanities-
  3. -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#75
  4. -Business, Management and Accounting#68
  5. #85Computer Science#72
  6. #88Engineering#80
  7. -Environmental Science#102
  8. -Health Professions#62
  9. #103Medicine#89
  10. #76Psychology#65
  11. #116Social Sciences#86

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 Malta rankPalestine rank Malta top 10%Palestine top 10% Malta worksPalestine works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences - #105 - 11.8% - 224
Arts and Humanities #58 - 12.8% - 234 -
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - #75 - 10.3% - 214
Business, Management and Accounting - #68 - 16.6% - 437
Computer Science #85 #72 8.0% 13.2% 348 646
Engineering #88 #80 8.8% 12.1% 420 603
Environmental Science - #102 - 10.5% - 237
Health Professions - #62 - 19.3% - 314
Medicine #103 #89 6.4% 9.1% 861 1.6k
Psychology #76 #65 8.7% 14.8% 232 356
Social Sciences #116 #86 9.9% 13.1% 632 1.1k

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.

Malta

▲ 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. Epidemiology204◆ 1.15×128 topics
  2. Globalization151▲ 1.72×97 topics
  3. Sustainability144▲ 1.32×79 topics
  4. Machine Learning136◆ 0.91×83 topics
  5. Deep Learning123▼ 0.80×73 topics
  6. Climate Change117◆ 0.96×96 topics
  7. Mental Health102▲ 1.59×41 topics
  8. Quality of Life100▲ 1.55×56 topics
  9. Education87◆ 1.13×81 topics
  10. Public Health80▲ 1.24×59 topics
  11. Artificial Intelligence79▲ 1.24×46 topics
  12. Renewable Energy79▲ 1.22×43 topics
  13. COVID-1970▲ 1.21×28 topics
  14. Healthcare70▲ 1.37×31 topics
  15. Risk Factors69▲ 1.41×36 topics
  16. Treatment68▲ 1.25×49 topics
  17. Cardiovascular Disease64▲ 1.25×38 topics
  18. Resilience64▲ 2.9×17 topics
  19. Big Data58▲ 1.35×27 topics
  20. Depression58▲ 1.46×25 topics
  21. Identity51▲ 1.59×46 topics
  22. Governance48▲ 3.3×14 topics
  23. Cultural Heritage48▲ 2.0×24 topics
  24. Vulnerability47▲ 4.6×7 topics
  25. Student Engagement46▲ 2.6×13 topics
  26. Ethics45▲ 2.0×39 topics
  27. Social Interaction42▲ 2.4×10 topics
  28. Prevention40▲ 2.1×15 topics
  29. Technology Integration35▲ 2.5×10 topics
  30. Reflective Practice34▲ 4.0×7 topics
  31. Mediterranean34▲ 8.4×6 topics
  32. Decolonization32▲ 8.9×5 topics
  33. European Union32▲ 3.2×17 topics
  34. Academic Achievement30▲ 4.0×10 topics
  35. Pacific30▲ 35×2 topics
  36. Islands29▲ 58×1 topic
  37. Small States29▲ 58×1 topic
  38. Holocene27▲ 5.3×3 topics
  39. Maritime Archaeology23▲ 28×1 topic
  40. Sea-Level Change23▲ 28×1 topic

Palestine

▲ 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. Epidemiology447▲ 1.38×133 topics
  2. Machine Learning411▲ 1.52×87 topics
  3. Mental Health286▲ 2.5×40 topics
  4. Deep Learning260◆ 0.93×81 topics
  5. Public Health227▲ 1.92×55 topics
  6. Globalization225▲ 1.41×83 topics
  7. Healthcare207▲ 2.2×28 topics
  8. Corporate Governance195▲ 3.3×22 topics
  9. Supply Chain Management188▲ 2.6×23 topics
  10. Human Rights173▲ 2.1×48 topics
  11. Depression166▲ 2.3×24 topics
  12. Risk Management146▲ 3.8×14 topics
  13. Mortality139▲ 3.0×13 topics
  14. Digital Transformation135▲ 3.1×22 topics
  15. Customer Satisfaction131▲ 5.1×8 topics
  16. Discrimination123▲ 7.2×6 topics
  17. Palestine122▲ 28×2 topics
  18. Nationalism120▲ 3.3×18 topics
  19. Technology Integration117▲ 4.6×11 topics
  20. Health117▲ 3.6×18 topics
  21. IoT116▲ 3.8×14 topics
  22. Israel113▲ 42×2 topics
  23. Organizational Performance111▲ 5.2×11 topics
  24. Ethnic Identity110▲ 12×3 topics
  25. Occupation110▲ 22×2 topics
  26. Smart Cities110▲ 5.1×8 topics
  27. Segregation109▲ 18×2 topics
  28. Intifada109▲ 50×1 topic
  29. Settler Colonialism109▲ 32×2 topics
  30. Finance108▲ 7.3×3 topics
  31. Trauma103▲ 6.1×7 topics
  32. Performance Analysis101▲ 6.0×5 topics
  33. Financial Stability101▲ 6.5×4 topics
  34. Conflict95▲ 7.2×10 topics
  35. Global Financial Crisis92▲ 8.7×3 topics
  36. Ethical Identity91▲ 9.7×1 topic
  37. Shariah Supervision91▲ 9.7×1 topic
  38. Social Media Marketing86▲ 22×1 topic
  39. Violence85▲ 7.1×6 topics
  40. Peacebuilding82▲ 15×6 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?

Palestine has out-published Malta every year since 2017, when it overtook it.

still counting1k2k3kPalestine2,166 in 2025Malta1,053 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 counting0.020%0.040%Palestine0.037% in 2025Malta0.018% 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 counting5%10%15%Palestine14.3% in 2025Malta9.8% 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.

Malta 05 level0 Palestine
  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, Malta or Palestine?

Palestine publishes 1.7× as much research as Malta in 2022-now (6.9k against 4k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Malta or Palestine?

12.4% of Palestine's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 8.7% for Malta.

Is Malta or Palestine growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +60% against 2018-21 for Palestine, and +11% for Malta.

Which has more open access research, Malta or Palestine?

63% of Palestine's research is free to read, against 49% of Malta's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Malta or Palestine?

Malta holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Palestine 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%.

Malta

  1. 1University of Malta9.1% top 10% · 3.1k works
  2. 2Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology6.7% top 10% · 277 works
  3. 3Primary HealthCare7.1% top 10% · 228 works
  4. 4Middlesex University8.5% top 10% · 131 works
  5. 5Heritage Malta7.7% top 10% · 72 works

Palestine

  1. 1An-Najah National University14.5% top 10% · 1.7k works
  2. 2Arab American University15.7% top 10% · 693 works
  3. 3Al-Quds University8.2% top 10% · 834 works
  4. 4Birzeit University11.7% top 10% · 504 works
  5. 5Islamic University of Gaza16.1% top 10% · 463 works
  6. 6University College of Applied Science11.1% top 10% · 166 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.

Malta

  1. 1 Mark Anthony Camilleri #68,033 worldwide 8.5k citations · 317 works
  2. 2 Miriam Gatt #75,716 worldwide 7k citations · 183 works
  3. 3 Mario V. Balzan #90,041 worldwide 4.2k citations · 91 works
  4. 4 Mark Mifsud #94,117 worldwide 3.4k citations · 56 works
  5. 5 Josette Camilleri #99,365 worldwide 13k citations · 232 works

Palestine

  1. 1 Bassam A. Tayeh #1,813 worldwide 17k citations · 233 works
  2. 2 Amira A Shaheen #16,599 worldwide 119k citations · 109 works
  3. 3 Majdi M. Mafarja #38,171 worldwide 18k citations · 104 works
  4. 4 Niveen ME Abu-Rmeileh #50,160 worldwide 43k citations · 40 works
  5. 5 Mohammad A.A. Zaid #62,516 worldwide 1.7k citations · 35 works