Mauritania vs Morocco
On research quality in 2022-now, Morocco ranks #94 in the world and Mauritania #184, of 189 countries. Mauritania stands higher in 0 of the 23 fields both publish in, Morocco in 23.
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Mauritania
- World rank, 2022-now
- #184
- #192 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 269
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 6.2%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 55%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Forestry, Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Simulation.
Morocco
- World rank, 2022-now
- #94
- #83 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 64k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 7.7%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 47%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Algebra and Number Theory, Applied Mathematics, Metals and Alloys.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Morocco leads on 5 of 9 measures: research quality, output, top-10% rate, citations per work and growth. Mauritania leads on 3 of 9 measures: excellence for its fields, open access and international co-authorship. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.
- #184Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#94
- 0.86×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.79×
- 269Outputfractional works, 2022-now64k
- 6.2%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited7.7%
- 8.6Citations per workall time, per fractional work9.7
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 55%Open accessof its works free to read, all time47%
- 56%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time23%
- +36%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+55%
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?
Mauritania stands higher in 0 of 23 fields, Morocco in 23. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#84
- -Arts and Humanities#93
- -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#83
- -Business, Management and Accounting#77
- -Chemistry#52
- -Computer Science#74
- -Decision Sciences#69
- -Dentistry#57
- -Earth and Planetary Sciences#53
- -Economics, Econometrics and Finance#94
- -Energy#54
- -Engineering#67
- -Environmental Science#65
- -Health Professions#92
- -Immunology and Microbiology#66
- -Materials Science#54
- -Mathematics#55
- -Medicine#133
- -Neuroscience#59
- -Nursing#57
- -Physics and Astronomy#66
- -Psychology#94
- -Social Sciences#128
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 | Mauritania rank | Morocco rank | Mauritania top 10% | Morocco top 10% | Mauritania works | Morocco works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | - | #84 | - | 12.6% | - | 3.8k |
| Arts and Humanities | - | #93 | - | 9.4% | - | 1.2k |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | - | #83 | - | 5.5% | - | 2k |
| Business, Management and Accounting | - | #77 | - | 7.9% | - | 2.8k |
| Chemistry | - | #52 | - | 15.4% | - | 1k |
| Computer Science | - | #74 | - | 8.8% | - | 7.1k |
| Decision Sciences | - | #69 | - | 7.9% | - | 712 |
| Dentistry | - | #57 | - | 4.2% | - | 301 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | - | #53 | - | 11.1% | - | 1k |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | - | #94 | - | 7.3% | - | 1.3k |
| Energy | - | #54 | - | 9.6% | - | 1k |
| Engineering | - | #67 | - | 8.5% | - | 9.9k |
| Environmental Science | - | #65 | - | 10.1% | - | 3.4k |
| Health Professions | - | #92 | - | 9.1% | - | 1.2k |
| Immunology and Microbiology | - | #66 | - | 2.9% | - | 405 |
| Materials Science | - | #54 | - | 11.4% | - | 2.5k |
| Mathematics | - | #55 | - | 8.1% | - | 2.1k |
| Medicine | - | #133 | - | 2.8% | - | 14k |
| Neuroscience | - | #59 | - | 5.1% | - | 509 |
| Nursing | - | #57 | - | 8.5% | - | 232 |
| Physics and Astronomy | - | #66 | - | 10.5% | - | 1.2k |
| Psychology | - | #94 | - | 6.1% | - | 1.1k |
| Social Sciences | - | #128 | - | 8.6% | - | 4.5k |
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.
Mauritania
- Microfinance
- Empowerment
- Cancer Incidence
- Controllability
- Poverty Reduction
- North Africa
- Gender Equality
- Boundary Value Problems
- Conservation
- Heterogeneous
- Agroforestry
- Infectious Diseases
- Finite Element
- Sobolev Spaces
- Fractional Laplacian
- Public Health
- Nonlinear Equations
- Remote Sensing
- Deep Learning
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Renewable Energy
- Sustainability
- Environmental Impact
- Smallholder Farmers
- Immune Response
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Porous Media
- Population Dynamics
- Tree Domestication
- Multiscale Methods
- Antiviral Therapy
- Islam
- Migration
- Liver Disease
- Grid Integration
- Sea-Level Rise
- Marine Ecosystems
- Fisheries Sustainability
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology20▲ 1.54×55 topics
- Climate Change20▲ 2.2×41 topics
- Machine Learning17▲ 1.60×35 topics
- Deep Learning15▲ 1.34×32 topics
- Renewable Energy11▲ 2.4×22 topics
- Remote Sensing10▲ 2.5×17 topics
- Sustainability9◆ 1.11×22 topics
- Nonlinear Equations9▲ 21×3 topics
- Environmental Impact7▲ 1.34×19 topics
- Public Health7▲ 1.43×22 topics
- Smallholder Farmers7▲ 9.9×2 topics
- Fractional Laplacian6▲ 87×1 topic
- Immune Response6▲ 3.4×11 topics
- Sobolev Spaces6▲ 87×1 topic
- Biodiversity Conservation5▲ 4.3×4 topics
- Finite Element5▲ 35×2 topics
- Porous Media5▲ 11×3 topics
- Infectious Diseases5▲ 4.3×5 topics
- Population Dynamics4▲ 5.4×7 topics
- Agroforestry4▲ 20×1 topic
- Tree Domestication4▲ 60×1 topic
- Heterogeneous4▲ 37×1 topic
- Multiscale Methods4▲ 37×1 topic
- Conservation4▲ 2.9×10 topics
- Antiviral Therapy4▲ 13×3 topics
- Boundary Value Problems4▲ 24×3 topics
- Islam4▲ 5.9×3 topics
- Gender Equality4▲ 4.1×4 topics
- Migration4▲ 3.4×5 topics
- North Africa4▲ 32×2 topics
- Liver Disease4▲ 12×2 topics
- Poverty Reduction4▲ 8.5×3 topics
- Grid Integration4▲ 11×3 topics
- Controllability3▲ 23×2 topics
- Sea-Level Rise3▲ 7.8×4 topics
- Cancer Incidence3▲ 6.4×3 topics
- Marine Ecosystems3▲ 16×2 topics
- Empowerment2▲ 8.0×1 topic
- Fisheries Sustainability2▲ 9.1×2 topics
- Microfinance2▲ 15×1 topic
Morocco
- Photovoltaic Arrays
- Controllability
- Grid-Connected Inverters
- Local Development
- Parameter Estimation
- Power Electronics
- IoT Security
- Risk Management
- Solar Energy
- Antioxidant Activity
- Security
- Surgical Management
- Artificial Intelligence
- Remote Sensing
- Healthcare
- Diagnosis
- Supply Chain Management
- Climate Change
- Sustainability
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Renewable Energy
- Neural Networks
- Treatment
- Environmental Impact
- Internet of Things
- Big Data
- Energy Efficiency
- Convolutional Neural Networks
- Management
- Chemotherapy
- Medicinal Plants
- Artificial Neural Networks
- Prognostic Factors
- Nonlinear Equations
- Territorial Governance
- North Africa
- Subduction
- Maximum Power Point Tracking
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Machine Learning4,199▲ 1.69×97 topics
- Deep Learning4,074▲ 1.58×84 topics
- Epidemiology3,452▲ 1.16×137 topics
- Sustainability2,246▲ 1.23×120 topics
- Renewable Energy2,052▲ 1.90×55 topics
- Climate Change1,946◆ 0.96×115 topics
- Neural Networks1,735▲ 1.50×41 topics
- Supply Chain Management1,456▲ 2.2×26 topics
- Treatment1,456▲ 1.60×52 topics
- Diagnosis1,433▲ 2.1×41 topics
- Environmental Impact1,389◆ 1.09×72 topics
- Healthcare1,314▲ 1.54×35 topics
- Internet of Things1,229▲ 1.92×31 topics
- Remote Sensing1,192▲ 1.30×36 topics
- Big Data1,143▲ 1.60×34 topics
- Artificial Intelligence1,041◆ 0.98×62 topics
- Energy Efficiency947▲ 1.37×44 topics
- Surgical Management880▲ 2.9×20 topics
- Convolutional Neural Networks860▲ 1.58×14 topics
- Security854▲ 1.71×30 topics
- Management839▲ 1.41×39 topics
- Antioxidant Activity782▲ 1.68×32 topics
- Chemotherapy771▲ 1.45×25 topics
- Solar Energy754▲ 3.2×5 topics
- Medicinal Plants739▲ 2.5×20 topics
- Risk Management689▲ 1.94×19 topics
- Artificial Neural Networks664▲ 1.95×10 topics
- IoT Security664▲ 2.9×3 topics
- Prognostic Factors661▲ 2.0×14 topics
- Power Electronics569▲ 2.4×8 topics
- Nonlinear Equations439▲ 4.6×6 topics
- Parameter Estimation416▲ 4.4×6 topics
- Territorial Governance406▲ 4.7×4 topics
- Local Development399▲ 5.2×2 topics
- North Africa395▲ 15×2 topics
- Grid-Connected Inverters358▲ 6.6×2 topics
- Subduction352▲ 6.3×3 topics
- Controllability330▲ 10×2 topics
- Maximum Power Point Tracking323▲ 8.7×1 topic
- Photovoltaic Arrays323▲ 8.7×1 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?
Morocco has out-published Mauritania 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, Mauritania or Morocco?
Morocco publishes 237.0× as much research as Mauritania in 2022-now (64k against 269 fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Mauritania or Morocco?
7.7% of Morocco's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.2% for Mauritania.
Is Mauritania or Morocco growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +55% against 2018-21 for Morocco, and +36% for Mauritania.
Which has more open access research, Mauritania or Morocco?
55% of Mauritania's research is free to read, against 47% of Morocco's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Mauritania or Morocco?
Mauritania holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Morocco 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%.
Mauritania
- 1Université de Nouakchott5.9% top 10% · 184 works
Morocco
- 1Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique16.8% top 10% · 1.8k works
- 2Université Ibn-Tofail7.0% top 10% · 4.1k works
- 3Université Hassan 1er9.8% top 10% · 1.5k works
- 4Abdelmalek Essaâdi University7.5% top 10% · 3.8k works
- 5Université Ibn Zohr9.1% top 10% · 2.9k works
- 6Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University9.6% top 10% · 5.6k 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.
Mauritania
- 1 Mohamedhen Vall Nounou #914,374 worldwide 20 citations · 18 works
- 2 Boudy Bilal #1,746,841 worldwide 960 citations · 40 works
- 3 Hamed Ould Sidi #2,005,584 worldwide 92 citations · 30 works
- 4 Ousmane Ly #2,150,804 worldwide 372 citations · 24 works
- 5 Mohamed Lemine Cheikh Brahim Ahmed #2,182,622 worldwide 1.8k citations · 32 works
Morocco
- 1 Aziz A. Bousfiha #12,714 worldwide 11k citations · 60 works
- 2 Muhammad Nabeel Ikram #15,633 worldwide 5.5k citations · 106 works
- 3 A. Allouhi #37,806 worldwide 7.7k citations · 134 works
- 4 Anass Cherrafi #64,369 worldwide 4.8k citations · 123 works
- 5 Asmae Berrada #72,405 worldwide 2.5k citations · 75 works