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On research quality in 2022-now, Morocco ranks #94 in the world and Tunisia #139, of 189 countries. Morocco stands higher in 22 of the 23 fields both publish in, Tunisia in 1.

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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.

Tunisia

World rank, 2022-now
#139
#115 all time
Works, 2022-now
38k
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.9%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
33%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Algebra and Number Theory, Mathematical Physics, Applied Mathematics.

Who leads, measure by measure?

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

Morocco 61 level2 Tunisia
  1. #94Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#139
  2. 0.79×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.54×
  3. 64kOutputfractional works, 2022-now38k
  4. 7.7%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.9%
  5. 9.7Citations per workall time, per fractional work10.1
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 47%Open accessof its works free to read, all time33%
  8. 23%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time33%
  9. +55%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+7%

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?

Morocco stands higher in 22 of 23 fields, Tunisia in 1. Morocco leads most in Materials Science (#54 against #75); Tunisia leads most in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (#80 against #94). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Morocco 221 Tunisia
  1. #84Agricultural and Biological Sciences#100
  2. #93Arts and Humanities#99
  3. #83Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#92
  4. #77Business, Management and Accounting#94
  5. #52Chemistry#65
  6. #74Computer Science#91
  7. #69Decision Sciences#73
  8. #57Dentistry#58
  9. #53Earth and Planetary Sciences#68
  10. #94Economics, Econometrics and Finance#80
  11. #54Energy#63
  12. #67Engineering#93
  13. #65Environmental Science#92
  14. #92Health Professions#95
  15. #66Immunology and Microbiology#70
  16. #54Materials Science#75
  17. #55Mathematics#69
  18. #133Medicine#139
  19. #59Neuroscience#64
  20. #57Nursing-
  21. #66Physics and Astronomy#72
  22. #94Psychology#98
  23. #128Social Sciences#146

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 Morocco rankTunisia rank Morocco top 10%Tunisia top 10% Morocco worksTunisia works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #84 #100 12.6% 8.8% 3.8k 2.3k
Arts and Humanities #93 #99 9.4% 8.1% 1.2k 392
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #83 #92 5.5% 4.3% 2k 1.6k
Business, Management and Accounting #77 #94 7.9% 13.2% 2.8k 1.3k
Chemistry #52 #65 15.4% 7.1% 1k 565
Computer Science #74 #91 8.8% 7.6% 7.1k 3.4k
Decision Sciences #69 #73 7.9% 8.6% 712 306
Dentistry #57 #58 4.2% 3.9% 301 201
Earth and Planetary Sciences #53 #68 11.1% 4.8% 1k 531
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #94 #80 7.3% 12.7% 1.3k 1.2k
Energy #54 #63 9.6% 7.0% 1k 511
Engineering #67 #93 8.5% 5.8% 9.9k 5.7k
Environmental Science #65 #92 10.1% 6.9% 3.4k 1.6k
Health Professions #92 #95 9.1% 5.6% 1.2k 934
Immunology and Microbiology #66 #70 2.9% 3.2% 405 340
Materials Science #54 #75 11.4% 6.4% 2.5k 1.4k
Mathematics #55 #69 8.1% 8.1% 2.1k 1.1k
Medicine #133 #139 2.8% 2.9% 14k 11k
Neuroscience #59 #64 5.1% 5.2% 509 426
Nursing #57 - 8.5% - 232 -
Physics and Astronomy #66 #72 10.5% 6.1% 1.2k 409
Psychology #94 #98 6.1% 5.8% 1.1k 903
Social Sciences #128 #146 8.6% 7.5% 4.5k 2k

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.

Morocco

▲ 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. Machine Learning4,199▲ 1.69×97 topics
  2. Deep Learning4,074▲ 1.58×84 topics
  3. Epidemiology3,452▲ 1.16×137 topics
  4. Sustainability2,246▲ 1.23×120 topics
  5. Renewable Energy2,052▲ 1.90×55 topics
  6. Climate Change1,946◆ 0.96×115 topics
  7. Neural Networks1,735▲ 1.50×41 topics
  8. Supply Chain Management1,456▲ 2.2×26 topics
  9. Treatment1,456▲ 1.60×52 topics
  10. Diagnosis1,433▲ 2.1×41 topics
  11. Environmental Impact1,389◆ 1.09×72 topics
  12. Healthcare1,314▲ 1.54×35 topics
  13. Internet of Things1,229▲ 1.92×31 topics
  14. Remote Sensing1,192▲ 1.30×36 topics
  15. Big Data1,143▲ 1.60×34 topics
  16. Artificial Intelligence1,041◆ 0.98×62 topics
  17. Energy Efficiency947▲ 1.37×44 topics
  18. Surgical Management880▲ 2.9×20 topics
  19. Convolutional Neural Networks860▲ 1.58×14 topics
  20. Security854▲ 1.71×30 topics
  21. Management839▲ 1.41×39 topics
  22. Antioxidant Activity782▲ 1.68×32 topics
  23. Chemotherapy771▲ 1.45×25 topics
  24. Solar Energy754▲ 3.2×5 topics
  25. Medicinal Plants739▲ 2.5×20 topics
  26. Risk Management689▲ 1.94×19 topics
  27. Artificial Neural Networks664▲ 1.95×10 topics
  28. IoT Security664▲ 2.9×3 topics
  29. Prognostic Factors661▲ 2.0×14 topics
  30. Power Electronics569▲ 2.4×8 topics
  31. Nonlinear Equations439▲ 4.6×6 topics
  32. Parameter Estimation416▲ 4.4×6 topics
  33. Territorial Governance406▲ 4.7×4 topics
  34. Local Development399▲ 5.2×2 topics
  35. North Africa395▲ 15×2 topics
  36. Grid-Connected Inverters358▲ 6.6×2 topics
  37. Subduction352▲ 6.3×3 topics
  38. Controllability330▲ 10×2 topics
  39. Maximum Power Point Tracking323▲ 8.7×1 topic
  40. Photovoltaic Arrays323▲ 8.7×1 topic

Tunisia

▲ 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. Epidemiology2,800▲ 1.62×140 topics
  2. Deep Learning2,110▲ 1.41×84 topics
  3. Machine Learning1,653◆ 1.14×95 topics
  4. Treatment1,221▲ 2.3×52 topics
  5. Diagnosis1,199▲ 3.0×41 topics
  6. Inflammation1,097▲ 1.19×83 topics
  7. Climate Change1,054◆ 0.89×118 topics
  8. Renewable Energy956▲ 1.52×58 topics
  9. Neural Networks818▲ 1.22×42 topics
  10. Sustainability791▼ 0.74×113 topics
  11. Oxidative Stress785◆ 1.10×62 topics
  12. Environmental Impact738◆ 1.00×71 topics
  13. Management681▲ 1.96×39 topics
  14. Quality of Life650◆ 1.03×59 topics
  15. Healthcare609▲ 1.23×36 topics
  16. Cardiovascular Disease592▲ 1.19×39 topics
  17. Genetics548▲ 1.78×27 topics
  18. Risk Factors548◆ 1.14×37 topics
  19. Autoantibodies535▲ 5.2×8 topics
  20. Convolutional Neural Networks522▲ 1.65×14 topics
  21. Corporate Governance495▲ 1.55×29 topics
  22. Antioxidant Activity478▲ 1.77×32 topics
  23. Economic Growth477▲ 1.35×33 topics
  24. Chemotherapy463▲ 1.50×25 topics
  25. Clinical Practice Guidelines460▲ 1.92×14 topics
  26. Surgical Management449▲ 2.5×20 topics
  27. Pathogenesis421▲ 1.89×24 topics
  28. Global Burden414▲ 1.74×12 topics
  29. Classification383▲ 1.93×13 topics
  30. Monetary Policy380▲ 3.7×11 topics
  31. Islam369▲ 4.1×5 topics
  32. Immunosuppressive Therapy313▲ 3.8×8 topics
  33. Social Influence307▲ 3.3×3 topics
  34. Malay Language282▲ 4.6×1 topic
  35. Sharia Law282▲ 4.5×1 topic
  36. Phenolic Compounds277▲ 3.5×9 topics
  37. Public Oversight239▲ 4.5×1 topic
  38. Transport Policy239▲ 4.5×1 topic
  39. Air Force238▲ 4.6×1 topic
  40. Warfare238▲ 4.6×1 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 Tunisia every year since 2019, when it overtook it.

still counting10k20kMorocco19k in 2025Tunisia10k 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 counting0.20%0.40%Morocco0.32% in 2025Tunisia0.18% 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%Morocco8.1% in 2025Tunisia6.3% 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.

Morocco 05 level0 Tunisia
  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, Morocco or Tunisia?

Morocco publishes 1.7× as much research as Tunisia in 2022-now (64k against 38k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Morocco or Tunisia?

7.7% of Morocco's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.9% for Tunisia.

Is Morocco or Tunisia growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +55% against 2018-21 for Morocco, and +7% for Tunisia.

Which has more open access research, Morocco or Tunisia?

47% of Morocco's research is free to read, against 33% of Tunisia's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Morocco or Tunisia?

Morocco holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Tunisia 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%.

Morocco

  1. 1Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique16.8% top 10% · 1.8k works
  2. 2Université Ibn-Tofail7.0% top 10% · 4.1k works
  3. 3Université Hassan 1er9.8% top 10% · 1.5k works
  4. 4Abdelmalek Essaâdi University7.5% top 10% · 3.8k works
  5. 5Université Ibn Zohr9.1% top 10% · 2.9k works
  6. 6Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University9.6% top 10% · 5.6k works

Tunisia

  1. 1Manouba University9.9% top 10% · 1.3k works
  2. 2Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique de Tunisie3.4% top 10% · 1.3k works
  3. 3University of Sousse7.3% top 10% · 2.5k works
  4. 4University of Jendouba11.4% top 10% · 578 works
  5. 5University of Sfax8.3% top 10% · 5.2k works
  6. 6University of Gabès6.7% top 10% · 1.6k 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.

Morocco

  1. 1 Aziz A. Bousfiha #12,714 worldwide 11k citations · 60 works
  2. 2 Muhammad Nabeel Ikram #15,633 worldwide 5.5k citations · 106 works
  3. 3 A. Allouhi #37,806 worldwide 7.7k citations · 134 works
  4. 4 Anass Cherrafi #64,369 worldwide 4.8k citations · 123 works
  5. 5 Asmae Berrada #72,405 worldwide 2.5k citations · 75 works

Tunisia

  1. 1 Naima Lassoued #58,759 worldwide 1.6k citations · 79 works
  2. 2 Imen Khanchel #94,831 worldwide 1.6k citations · 78 works
  3. 3 Karim Rejeb #97,324 worldwide 6.2k citations · 80 works
  4. 4 Khaled Mokni #103,833 worldwide 2.5k citations · 70 works
  5. 5 Anis Chaouachi #111,304 worldwide 10k citations · 146 works