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Mongolia vs Sudan

On research quality in 2022-now, Mongolia ranks #107 in the world and Sudan #110, of 189 countries. Mongolia stands higher in 8 of the 13 fields both publish in, Sudan in 5.

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Mongolia

World rank, 2022-now
#107
#119 all time
Works, 2022-now
6.4k
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.0%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
55%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Fuel Technology, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Music.

Sudan

World rank, 2022-now
#110
#114 all time
Works, 2022-now
7.7k
fractional
Top-10% rate
7.1%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
65%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Microbiology, Forestry, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Sudan leads on 6 of 9 measures: excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, citations per work, open access and international co-authorship. Mongolia leads on 2 of 9 measures: research quality and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Mongolia 21 level6 Sudan
  1. #107Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#110
  2. 0.52×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.69×
  3. 6.4kOutputfractional works, 2022-now7.7k
  4. 5.0%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited7.1%
  5. 4.7Citations per workall time, per fractional work9.3
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 55%Open accessof its works free to read, all time65%
  8. 39%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time40%
  9. +58%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+22%

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?

Mongolia stands higher in 8 of 13 fields, Sudan in 5. Mongolia leads most in Social Sciences (#88 against #127); Sudan leads most in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (#76 against #88). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Mongolia 85 Sudan
  1. #107Agricultural and Biological Sciences#106
  2. #68Arts and Humanities-
  3. #88Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#76
  4. #95Business, Management and Accounting-
  5. #105Computer Science#99
  6. #63Earth and Planetary Sciences-
  7. #91Economics, Econometrics and Finance-
  8. #95Engineering#89
  9. #98Environmental Science#104
  10. -Health Professions#79
  11. #101Medicine#116
  12. #84Psychology-
  13. #88Social Sciences#127

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 Mongolia rankSudan rank Mongolia top 10%Sudan top 10% Mongolia worksSudan works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #107 #106 5.0% 5.4% 358 782
Arts and Humanities #68 - 6.3% - 485 -
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #88 #76 4.5% 7.5% 209 374
Business, Management and Accounting #95 - 4.9% - 269 -
Computer Science #105 #99 3.9% 7.8% 513 446
Earth and Planetary Sciences #63 - 3.3% - 216 -
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #91 - 7.0% - 246 -
Engineering #95 #89 3.3% 9.2% 603 686
Environmental Science #98 #104 4.3% 6.3% 556 315
Health Professions - #79 - 10.5% - 274
Medicine #101 #116 5.2% 5.4% 742 2.2k
Psychology #84 - 4.8% - 202 -
Social Sciences #88 #127 6.1% 8.0% 1.2k 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.

Mongolia

▲ 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. Climate Change527▲ 2.6×105 topics
  2. Sustainability358▲ 1.97×106 topics
  3. Globalization307▲ 2.1×132 topics
  4. Artificial Intelligence271▲ 2.5×62 topics
  5. Machine Learning257◆ 1.04×88 topics
  6. Sustainable Development249▲ 2.1×83 topics
  7. Epidemiology227▼ 0.76×130 topics
  8. Deep Learning220▼ 0.86×81 topics
  9. Education190▲ 1.49×115 topics
  10. Adaptation165▲ 7.4×14 topics
  11. Ecological Knowledge164▲ 52×2 topics
  12. Innovation162▲ 2.1×71 topics
  13. Economic Development157▲ 2.6×41 topics
  14. Livelihoods149▲ 58×2 topics
  15. Land Management148▲ 57×2 topics
  16. Pastoralists147▲ 78×1 topic
  17. Rangeland Degradation147▲ 78×1 topic
  18. Economic Growth132▲ 2.2×33 topics
  19. Linguistics127▲ 11×9 topics
  20. History126▲ 2.4×45 topics
  21. Biodiversity114▲ 2.0×35 topics
  22. Etymology112▲ 32×2 topics
  23. Historical Phonology112▲ 32×2 topics
  24. Morphology111▲ 8.3×11 topics
  25. Language Contact104▲ 15×5 topics
  26. Virtual Reality103▲ 2.8×19 topics
  27. Syntax100▲ 19×3 topics
  28. Turkic94▲ 48×1 topic
  29. oral epics94▲ 48×1 topic
  30. Central Asia90▲ 17×4 topics
  31. Multimedia Technology83▲ 18×2 topics
  32. Economic Security80▲ 5.1×7 topics
  33. Arctic75▲ 9.1×4 topics
  34. Financial Security73▲ 9.2×3 topics
  35. Human-Computer Interaction70▲ 5.2×7 topics
  36. Eurasian Exchange61▲ 40×1 topic
  37. Silk Roads61▲ 40×1 topic
  38. Graphic Design59▲ 20×2 topics
  39. Digital Media Technology59▲ 21×1 topic
  40. Visual Communication Design59▲ 21×1 topic

Sudan

▲ 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. Epidemiology709▲ 2.0×135 topics
  2. Inflammation266▲ 1.42×83 topics
  3. Machine Learning258◆ 0.88×87 topics
  4. Climate Change240◆ 1.01×103 topics
  5. Public Health220▲ 1.72×58 topics
  6. Curriculum Development203▲ 3.4×17 topics
  7. Globalization201▲ 1.16×83 topics
  8. Treatment197▲ 1.85×51 topics
  9. Digital Learning195▲ 4.3×12 topics
  10. Diagnosis193▲ 2.4×41 topics
  11. Oxidative Stress178▲ 1.23×62 topics
  12. COVID-19176▲ 1.54×31 topics
  13. Antioxidant165▲ 2.7×51 topics
  14. Character Education164▲ 3.9×6 topics
  15. Educational Technology161▲ 1.55×37 topics
  16. Cardiovascular Disease158▲ 1.58×39 topics
  17. Immune Response152▲ 3.0×23 topics
  18. E-Learning150▲ 1.77×24 topics
  19. Online Learning149▲ 2.0×23 topics
  20. Pandemic148▲ 1.69×14 topics
  21. STEM Education146▲ 3.7×15 topics
  22. Local Wisdom143▲ 3.5×9 topics
  23. Mobile Learning143▲ 4.8×6 topics
  24. Diabetes142▲ 3.2×22 topics
  25. Genetic Diversity132▲ 3.5×21 topics
  26. Pathogenesis128▲ 2.9×24 topics
  27. Islamic Education126▲ 4.3×4 topics
  28. Vaccine125▲ 3.6×11 topics
  29. Antioxidant Activity124▲ 2.3×31 topics
  30. Global Burden115▲ 2.4×12 topics
  31. Media Literacy113▲ 2.4×5 topics
  32. Vaccine Development99▲ 4.4×11 topics
  33. Sustainable Agriculture95▲ 3.5×13 topics
  34. Drug Resistance95▲ 3.8×9 topics
  35. 21st Century Skills89▲ 3.5×6 topics
  36. Critical Thinking Skills82▲ 5.4×2 topics
  37. Teacher Performance76▲ 6.2×2 topics
  38. Conflict75▲ 5.3×8 topics
  39. Character Development74▲ 5.2×2 topics
  40. Climate Resilience62▲ 12×3 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?

Sudan has out-published Mongolia every year since 2016, when it overtook it.

still counting1k2k3kSudan2,084 in 2025Mongolia1,989 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%0.060%Sudan0.035% in 2025Mongolia0.034% 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%Sudan8.8% in 2025Mongolia5.3% 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.

Mongolia 05 level0 Sudan
  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, Mongolia or Sudan?

Sudan publishes 1.2× as much research as Mongolia in 2022-now (7.7k against 6.4k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Mongolia or Sudan?

7.1% of Sudan's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.0% for Mongolia.

Is Mongolia or Sudan growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +58% against 2018-21 for Mongolia, and +22% for Sudan.

Which has more open access research, Mongolia or Sudan?

65% of Sudan's research is free to read, against 55% of Mongolia's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Mongolia or Sudan?

Mongolia holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Sudan 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%.

Mongolia

  1. 1National University of Mongolia4.4% top 10% · 1.2k works
  2. 2University of Finance and Economics4.8% top 10% · 561 works
  3. 3University of the Humanities9.3% top 10% · 603 works
  4. 4Mongolian Academy of Sciences2.2% top 10% · 827 works
  5. 5National Academy of Governance8.6% top 10% · 375 works
  6. 6Ider University5.8% top 10% · 187 works

Sudan

  1. 1National University16.3% top 10% · 260 works
  2. 2University of Khartoum7.8% top 10% · 1.3k works
  3. 3Sudan Meteorological Authority7.3% top 10% · 720 works
  4. 4University of Gezira7.4% top 10% · 539 works
  5. 5Sudan University of Science and Technology6.8% top 10% · 573 works
  6. 6Al-Neelain University5.9% top 10% · 362 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.

Mongolia

  1. 1 Munkhtuya Tumurkhuu #26,249 worldwide 24k citations · 79 works
  2. 2 Yanjinlkham Munkhsaikhan #149,169 worldwide 3.7k citations · 25 works
  3. 3 Ryenchindorj Erkhembayar #171,998 worldwide 17k citations · 37 works
  4. 4 Болормаа Норов #173,089 worldwide 2.7k citations · 45 works
  5. 5 Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan #177,653 worldwide 2.4k citations · 82 works

Sudan

  1. 1 Ayman Ahmed #17,030 worldwide 35k citations · 288 works
  2. 2 Nouh Saad Mohamed #38,344 worldwide 35k citations · 192 works
  3. 3 Emmanuel Edwar Siddig #68,313 worldwide 30k citations · 300 works
  4. 4 Ahmed ElSayed #171,188 worldwide 5.3k citations · 55 works
  5. 5 Hytham K. S. Hamid #277,816 worldwide 2.5k citations · 139 works