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Mozambique vs Zimbabwe

On research quality in 2022-now, Zimbabwe ranks #75 in the world and Mozambique #78, of 189 countries. Mozambique stands higher in 2 of the 10 fields both publish in, Zimbabwe in 8.

Research profiles alike: 0.80very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured

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Mozambique

World rank, 2022-now
#78
#90 all time
Works, 2022-now
4.5k
fractional
Top-10% rate
6.2%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
73%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Anatomy, Forestry, Transportation.

Zimbabwe

World rank, 2022-now
#75
#82 all time
Works, 2022-now
7.2k
fractional
Top-10% rate
6.9%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
52%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Fuel Technology, Archeology, Public Administration.

Who leads, measure by measure?

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

Mozambique 21 level6 Zimbabwe
  1. #78Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#75
  2. 0.80×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.83×
  3. 4.5kOutputfractional works, 2022-now7.2k
  4. 6.2%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.9%
  5. 6.4Citations per workall time, per fractional work10.3
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 73%Open accessof its works free to read, all time52%
  8. 54%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time31%
  9. +23%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+51%

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?

Mozambique stands higher in 2 of 10 fields, Zimbabwe in 8. Zimbabwe leads most in Computer Science (#87 against #104); Mozambique leads most in Environmental Science (#80 against #85). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Mozambique 28 Zimbabwe
  1. #85Agricultural and Biological Sciences#74
  2. -Business, Management and Accounting#76
  3. #104Computer Science#87
  4. -Economics, Econometrics and Finance#70
  5. #98Engineering#97
  6. #80Environmental Science#85
  7. -Health Professions#72
  8. #75Medicine#62
  9. -Psychology#79
  10. #68Social Sciences#72

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 Mozambique rankZimbabwe rank Mozambique top 10%Zimbabwe top 10% Mozambique worksZimbabwe works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #85 #74 7.2% 7.3% 288 623
Business, Management and Accounting - #76 - 6.0% - 548
Computer Science #104 #87 4.0% 6.8% 378 336
Economics, Econometrics and Finance - #70 - 4.6% - 367
Engineering #98 #97 5.8% 4.3% 292 677
Environmental Science #80 #85 5.8% 4.8% 325 509
Health Professions - #72 - 9.9% - 276
Medicine #75 #62 7.8% 9.9% 493 785
Psychology - #79 - 4.9% - 210
Social Sciences #68 #72 6.6% 7.3% 1.6k 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.

Mozambique

▲ 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. Educational Technology437▲ 7.0×44 topics
  2. Education396▲ 4.3×118 topics
  3. Sustainable Development388▲ 4.7×85 topics
  4. Pedagogy386▲ 14×28 topics
  5. Globalization372▲ 3.6×116 topics
  6. Sustainability358▲ 2.8×100 topics
  7. Teacher Training350▲ 11×27 topics
  8. Online Learning337▲ 7.6×25 topics
  9. E-Learning334▲ 6.5×21 topics
  10. Innovation311▲ 5.7×71 topics
  11. Distance Learning226▲ 12×13 topics
  12. Higher Education186▲ 6.6×26 topics
  13. Digital Literacy183▲ 6.0×11 topics
  14. History174▲ 4.7×39 topics
  15. Digitalization172▲ 16×13 topics
  16. Culture160▲ 5.7×25 topics
  17. Ethnicity158▲ 7.9×16 topics
  18. Literature157▲ 5.4×37 topics
  19. Inclusive Education154▲ 8.0×19 topics
  20. Digital Transformation154▲ 5.3×23 topics
  21. Public Policy149▲ 5.9×24 topics
  22. Digital Education140▲ 18×7 topics
  23. Economic Security138▲ 12×7 topics
  24. Legal Regulation138▲ 12×8 topics
  25. Language Teaching136▲ 9.5×8 topics
  26. Entrepreneurship130▲ 6.2×22 topics
  27. Foresight124▲ 18×2 topics
  28. Teaching Methods123▲ 14×11 topics
  29. Science122▲ 9.3×8 topics
  30. Islam120▲ 11×4 topics
  31. Social Influence118▲ 10×3 topics
  32. Modernization118▲ 12×3 topics
  33. Malay Language118▲ 16×1 topic
  34. Sharia Law118▲ 15×1 topic
  35. Educational Technologies117▲ 24×2 topics
  36. International Trade Law117▲ 17×2 topics
  37. Strategic Planning117▲ 15×3 topics
  38. Public Oversight116▲ 18×1 topic
  39. Transport Policy116▲ 18×1 topic
  40. Design116▲ 13×4 topics

Zimbabwe

▲ 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. Colonialism557▲ 14×23 topics
  2. Social Justice455▲ 9.1×35 topics
  3. Nationalism444▲ 12×15 topics
  4. Sustainability430▲ 2.1×96 topics
  5. Political Economy415▲ 19×14 topics
  6. Climate Change406▲ 1.79×108 topics
  7. Land Reform389▲ 99×2 topics
  8. History388▲ 6.7×13 topics
  9. Agrarian Relations362▲ 470×1 topic
  10. Zimbabwe362▲ 470×1 topic
  11. Sustainable Development355▲ 2.7×84 topics
  12. Globalization319▲ 1.94×104 topics
  13. Social Capital236▲ 5.4×18 topics
  14. Environmental Impact225▲ 1.58×65 topics
  15. Mental Health203▲ 1.70×41 topics
  16. COVID-19196▲ 1.81×29 topics
  17. Economic Growth190▲ 2.8×30 topics
  18. Higher Education180▲ 4.0×27 topics
  19. Human Rights179▲ 2.1×51 topics
  20. Poverty Reduction175▲ 16×6 topics
  21. Innovation173▲ 2.0×56 topics
  22. Digital Transformation161▲ 3.6×22 topics
  23. Economic Development157▲ 2.4×38 topics
  24. Development142▲ 4.8×17 topics
  25. Sustainable Agriculture134▲ 5.2×14 topics
  26. Gender Inequality128▲ 11×6 topics
  27. Social Impact128▲ 3.9×15 topics
  28. Vulnerability125▲ 6.4×8 topics
  29. Poverty Alleviation124▲ 16×2 topics
  30. Antiretroviral Therapy122▲ 9.0×6 topics
  31. Rural Development122▲ 4.2×15 topics
  32. Health Equity115▲ 4.7×6 topics
  33. Land Tenure114▲ 33×2 topics
  34. Smallholder Farmers107▲ 6.1×6 topics
  35. Postcolonialism93▲ 7.8×10 topics
  36. Urban Poverty87▲ 24×2 topics
  37. Housing Policy87▲ 37×1 topic
  38. Slum Upgrading87▲ 37×1 topic
  39. Decolonization86▲ 13×7 topics
  40. Community Health Workers84▲ 11×2 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?

Zimbabwe has out-published Mozambique every year since 1980.

still counting1k2k3kZimbabwe2,138 in 2025Mozambique971 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%Zimbabwe0.036% in 2025Mozambique0.017% 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%Zimbabwe7.9% in 2025Mozambique7.6% 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.

Mozambique 05 level0 Zimbabwe
  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, Mozambique or Zimbabwe?

Zimbabwe publishes 1.6× as much research as Mozambique in 2022-now (7.2k against 4.5k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Mozambique or Zimbabwe?

6.9% of Zimbabwe's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.2% for Mozambique.

Is Mozambique or Zimbabwe growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +51% against 2018-21 for Zimbabwe, and +23% for Mozambique.

Which has more open access research, Mozambique or Zimbabwe?

73% of Mozambique's research is free to read, against 52% of Zimbabwe's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Mozambique or Zimbabwe?

Mozambique holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Zimbabwe 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%.

Mozambique

  1. 1Eduardo Mondlane University6.6% top 10% · 653 works
  2. 2Pedagogical University4.8% top 10% · 2.1k works
  3. 3Instituto Nacional de Saúde7.9% top 10% · 306 works
  4. 4Universidade Politecnica4.9% top 10% · 259 works
  5. 5Lúrio University8.1% top 10% · 197 works
  6. 6Catholic University of Mozambique4.3% top 10% · 133 works

Zimbabwe

  1. 1University of Zimbabwe6.5% top 10% · 1.5k works
  2. 2National University of Science and Technology6.3% top 10% · 1.2k works
  3. 3Great Zimbabwe University5.6% top 10% · 524 works
  4. 4Midlands State University6.6% top 10% · 1.1k works
  5. 5Chinhoyi University of Technology6.9% top 10% · 389 works
  6. 6Harare Institute of Technology3.4% top 10% · 228 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.

Mozambique

  1. 1 Albertino Antonio Moura Damasceno #33,973 worldwide 64k citations · 338 works
  2. 2 Inácio Mandomando #104,696 worldwide 17k citations · 290 works
  3. 3 Ana Olga Mocumbi #117,838 worldwide 42k citations · 274 works
  4. 4 Albertino Damasceno #155,059 worldwide 14k citations · 29 works
  5. 5 Eusébio Macete #174,962 worldwide 7.4k citations · 120 works

Zimbabwe

  1. 1 Jephat Chifamba #20,133 worldwide 23k citations · 165 works
  2. 2 Brighton Nyagadza #68,624 worldwide 1.6k citations · 133 works
  3. 3 Régis Chikowo #103,612 worldwide 6.2k citations · 178 works
  4. 4 Christian Thierfelder #135,188 worldwide 10k citations · 271 works
  5. 5 Willis Gwenzi #170,977 worldwide 8.2k citations · 219 works