Malta vs Réunion
On research quality in 2022-now, Réunion ranks #99 in the world and Malta #100, of 189 countries. Malta stands higher in 5 of the 6 fields both publish in, Réunion in 1.
Research profiles alike: 0.32somewhat alike shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured
Compare other countries
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.
Réunion
- World rank, 2022-now
- #99
- #96 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 1.4k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 6.7%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 48%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Linguistics and Language, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Horticulture.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Réunion leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, international co-authorship and growth. Malta leads on 3 of 9 measures: output, top-10% rate and citations per work. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100 and open access.
- #100Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#99
- 0.79×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected1.00×
- 4kOutputfractional works, 2022-now1.4k
- 8.7%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.7%
- 12.7Citations per workall time, per fractional work10.5
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 49%Open accessof its works free to read, all time48%
- 30%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time42%
- +11%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+49%
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 5 of 6 fields, Réunion in 1. Réunion leads most in Social Sciences (#100 against #116). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- #58Arts and Humanities-
- #85Computer Science-
- #88Engineering-
- #103Medicine-
- #76Psychology-
- #116Social Sciences#100
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 rank | Réunion rank | Malta top 10% | Réunion top 10% | Malta works | Réunion works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities | #58 | - | 12.8% | - | 234 | - |
| Computer Science | #85 | - | 8.0% | - | 348 | - |
| Engineering | #88 | - | 8.8% | - | 420 | - |
| Medicine | #103 | - | 6.4% | - | 861 | - |
| Psychology | #76 | - | 8.7% | - | 232 | - |
| Social Sciences | #116 | #100 | 9.9% | 5.4% | 632 | 478 |
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
- Sea-Level Change
- Holocene
- Islands
- Academic Achievement
- Decolonization
- Reflective Practice
- Prevention
- Ethics
- Vulnerability
- Governance
- Depression
- Resilience
- Treatment
- Healthcare
- Renewable Energy
- Public Health
- Quality of Life
- Climate Change
- Machine Learning
- Globalization
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Deep Learning
- Mental Health
- Education
- Artificial Intelligence
- COVID-19
- Risk Factors
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Big Data
- Identity
- Cultural Heritage
- Student Engagement
- Social Interaction
- Technology Integration
- Mediterranean
- European Union
- Pacific
- Small States
- Maritime Archaeology
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology204◆ 1.15×128 topics
- Globalization151▲ 1.72×97 topics
- Sustainability144▲ 1.32×79 topics
- Machine Learning136◆ 0.91×83 topics
- Deep Learning123▼ 0.80×73 topics
- Climate Change117◆ 0.96×96 topics
- Mental Health102▲ 1.59×41 topics
- Quality of Life100▲ 1.55×56 topics
- Education87◆ 1.13×81 topics
- Public Health80▲ 1.24×59 topics
- Artificial Intelligence79▲ 1.24×46 topics
- Renewable Energy79▲ 1.22×43 topics
- COVID-1970▲ 1.21×28 topics
- Healthcare70▲ 1.37×31 topics
- Risk Factors69▲ 1.41×36 topics
- Treatment68▲ 1.25×49 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease64▲ 1.25×38 topics
- Resilience64▲ 2.9×17 topics
- Big Data58▲ 1.35×27 topics
- Depression58▲ 1.46×25 topics
- Identity51▲ 1.59×46 topics
- Governance48▲ 3.3×14 topics
- Cultural Heritage48▲ 2.0×24 topics
- Vulnerability47▲ 4.6×7 topics
- Student Engagement46▲ 2.6×13 topics
- Ethics45▲ 2.0×39 topics
- Social Interaction42▲ 2.4×10 topics
- Prevention40▲ 2.1×15 topics
- Technology Integration35▲ 2.5×10 topics
- Reflective Practice34▲ 4.0×7 topics
- Mediterranean34▲ 8.4×6 topics
- Decolonization32▲ 8.9×5 topics
- European Union32▲ 3.2×17 topics
- Academic Achievement30▲ 4.0×10 topics
- Pacific30▲ 35×2 topics
- Islands29▲ 58×1 topic
- Small States29▲ 58×1 topic
- Holocene27▲ 5.3×3 topics
- Maritime Archaeology23▲ 28×1 topic
- Sea-Level Change23▲ 28×1 topic
Réunion
- Taxonomy
- Intercultural Communication
- French Territories
- Discrimination
- Public Action
- Educational Policies
- Environmental Participation
- Religion
- Culture
- Healthcare Access
- Gender Studies
- Phylogeny
- Sustainable Development
- Multilingualism
- Public Policy
- Gender
- Sociolinguistics
- Biogeography
- Identity
- Globalization
- Climate Change
- Migration
- Epidemiology
- Colonialism
- Social Justice
- Cultural Diversity
- Public Health
- Ethnicity
- Community Engagement
- Territorial Governance
- Local Development
- Politics
- Social Movements
- Citizen Participation
- Nationalism
- Professional Practices
- Sociological Analysis
- Social Inequality
- Migrant Workers
- Language Policy
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Climate Change100▲ 2.2×81 topics
- Globalization94▲ 2.9×75 topics
- Migration90▲ 16×17 topics
- Identity89▲ 7.5×46 topics
- Epidemiology84▲ 1.29×119 topics
- Biogeography81▲ 18×19 topics
- Colonialism80▲ 10×31 topics
- Sociolinguistics76▲ 25×8 topics
- Social Justice75▲ 7.7×20 topics
- Gender71▲ 8.0×34 topics
- Cultural Diversity70▲ 19×10 topics
- Public Policy62▲ 7.9×17 topics
- Public Health60▲ 2.5×41 topics
- Multilingualism60▲ 23×5 topics
- Ethnicity59▲ 9.6×12 topics
- Sustainable Development58▲ 2.3×32 topics
- Community Engagement58▲ 11×11 topics
- Phylogeny56▲ 20×15 topics
- Territorial Governance55▲ 29×4 topics
- Gender Studies54▲ 22×11 topics
- Local Development54▲ 31×2 topics
- Healthcare Access49▲ 11×10 topics
- Politics48▲ 11×17 topics
- Culture44▲ 5.1×21 topics
- Social Movements43▲ 8.9×21 topics
- Religion40▲ 5.3×20 topics
- Citizen Participation39▲ 21×1 topic
- Environmental Participation39▲ 34×1 topic
- Nationalism38▲ 5.1×19 topics
- Educational Policies37▲ 21×2 topics
- Professional Practices37▲ 63×1 topic
- Public Action37▲ 63×1 topic
- Sociological Analysis37▲ 40×2 topics
- Discrimination35▲ 10×5 topics
- Social Inequality34▲ 7.8×4 topics
- French Territories34▲ 211×1 topic
- Migrant Workers34▲ 211×1 topic
- Intercultural Communication33▲ 44×2 topics
- Language Policy33▲ 14×4 topics
- Taxonomy31▲ 13×13 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?
Malta has out-published Réunion 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, Malta or Réunion?
Malta publishes 2.8× as much research as Réunion in 2022-now (4k against 1.4k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Malta or Réunion?
8.7% of Malta's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.7% for Réunion.
Is Malta or Réunion growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +49% against 2018-21 for Réunion, and +11% for Malta.
Which has more open access research, Malta or Réunion?
49% of Malta's research is free to read, against 48% of Réunion's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Malta or Réunion?
Malta holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Réunion 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
- 1University of Malta9.1% top 10% · 3.1k works
- 2Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology6.7% top 10% · 277 works
- 3Primary HealthCare7.1% top 10% · 228 works
- 4Middlesex University8.5% top 10% · 131 works
- 5Heritage Malta7.7% top 10% · 72 works
Réunion
- 1University of Reunion Island6.8% top 10% · 277 works
- 2Conseil Régional de La Réunion9.9% top 10% · 61 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 Mark Anthony Camilleri #68,033 worldwide 8.5k citations · 317 works
- 2 Miriam Gatt #75,716 worldwide 7k citations · 183 works
- 3 Mario V. Balzan #90,041 worldwide 4.2k citations · 91 works
- 4 Mark Mifsud #94,117 worldwide 3.4k citations · 56 works
- 5 Josette Camilleri #99,365 worldwide 13k citations · 232 works
Réunion
- 1 Riccardo Rodolfo‐Metalpa #183,527 worldwide 6.3k citations · 141 works
- 2 Fanny Houlbrèque #324,354 worldwide 4.6k citations · 113 works
- 3 Marie‐Paule Gonthier #329,865 worldwide 4.4k citations · 57 works
- 4 Silvia Iacobelli #550,826 worldwide 6.2k citations · 158 works
- 5 Philippe Lauret #572,523 worldwide 3.9k citations · 103 works