Myanmar vs Nepal
On research quality in 2022-now, Nepal ranks #109 in the world and Myanmar #129, of 189 countries. Myanmar stands higher in 2 of the 21 fields both publish in, Nepal in 19.
Research profiles alike: 0.80very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured
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Myanmar
- World rank, 2022-now
- #129
- #121 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 3.4k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 5.6%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 45%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: General Dentistry, Orthodontics, Dentistry.
Nepal
- World rank, 2022-now
- #109
- #89 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 33k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 4.8%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 76%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Drug Discovery, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, General Dentistry.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Myanmar leads on 4 of 9 measures: excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work and international co-authorship. Nepal leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, output, open access and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.
- #129Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#109
- 0.55×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.42×
- 3.4kOutputfractional works, 2022-now33k
- 5.6%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited4.8%
- 10.3Citations per workall time, per fractional work7.2
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 45%Open accessof its works free to read, all time76%
- 41%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time25%
- +3%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+54%
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?
Myanmar stands higher in 2 of 21 fields, Nepal in 19. Nepal leads most in Engineering (#91 against #116); Myanmar leads most in Medicine (#97 against #127). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#89
- -Arts and Humanities#76
- -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#82
- -Business, Management and Accounting#103
- -Chemistry#54
- #109Computer Science#113
- -Decision Sciences#62
- -Dentistry#56
- -Earth and Planetary Sciences#64
- -Economics, Econometrics and Finance#93
- #116Engineering#91
- -Environmental Science#84
- #96Health Professions#84
- -Immunology and Microbiology#65
- -Materials Science#66
- -Mathematics#76
- #97Medicine#127
- -Neuroscience#68
- -Nursing#62
- -Psychology#88
- #140Social Sciences#124
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 | Myanmar rank | Nepal rank | Myanmar top 10% | Nepal top 10% | Myanmar works | Nepal works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | - | #89 | - | 5.5% | - | 2.8k |
| Arts and Humanities | - | #76 | - | 6.8% | - | 990 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | - | #82 | - | 4.9% | - | 1k |
| Business, Management and Accounting | - | #103 | - | 4.8% | - | 1.4k |
| Chemistry | - | #54 | - | 9.4% | - | 245 |
| Computer Science | #109 | #113 | 3.3% | 5.0% | 359 | 2k |
| Decision Sciences | - | #62 | - | 4.9% | - | 458 |
| Dentistry | - | #56 | - | 2.3% | - | 386 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | - | #64 | - | 6.0% | - | 253 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | - | #93 | - | 3.9% | - | 1.2k |
| Engineering | #116 | #91 | 4.6% | 4.5% | 314 | 3.1k |
| Environmental Science | - | #84 | - | 5.1% | - | 1.9k |
| Health Professions | #96 | #84 | 5.2% | 6.7% | 204 | 1.2k |
| Immunology and Microbiology | - | #65 | - | 5.6% | - | 312 |
| Materials Science | - | #66 | - | 6.2% | - | 494 |
| Mathematics | - | #76 | - | 7.7% | - | 292 |
| Medicine | #97 | #127 | 6.0% | 3.4% | 778 | 8.6k |
| Neuroscience | - | #68 | - | 5.0% | - | 233 |
| Nursing | - | #62 | - | 5.0% | - | 276 |
| Psychology | - | #88 | - | 5.3% | - | 1k |
| Social Sciences | #140 | #124 | 7.3% | 6.1% | 414 | 4k |
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.
Myanmar
- Myanmar
- Oral Microbiome
- Transmission Routes
- Dental Practice
- Aerosols
- Dental Students
- Restorative Dentistry
- Political Transition
- Conflict
- Dental Implants
- Social Determinants
- Bone Regeneration
- Dental Caries
- Ethnicity
- Global Burden
- Artificial Intelligence
- Risk Factors
- COVID-19
- Quality of Life
- Deep Learning
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Inflammation
- Public Health
- Neural Networks
- Healthcare
- Convolutional Neural Networks
- Clinical Trials
- Prevention
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Oral Health
- Peri-implant Diseases
- Infection Control
- Dental Materials
- Fluoride
- Leadership Development
- Remineralization
- Inflammatory Pathways
- Career Choice
- Periodontal Diseases
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology296▲ 1.79×133 topics
- Deep Learning227▲ 1.58×80 topics
- Machine Learning181▲ 1.30×85 topics
- Quality of Life158▲ 2.6×58 topics
- Inflammation108▲ 1.22×82 topics
- COVID-19102▲ 1.89×31 topics
- Public Health90▲ 1.48×66 topics
- Risk Factors85▲ 1.86×36 topics
- Neural Networks85▲ 1.32×36 topics
- Artificial Intelligence81▲ 1.37×50 topics
- Healthcare78▲ 1.65×34 topics
- Global Burden71▲ 3.1×12 topics
- Convolutional Neural Networks68▲ 2.3×14 topics
- Ethnicity68▲ 4.4×13 topics
- Clinical Trials62▲ 2.2×19 topics
- Dental Caries62▲ 15×2 topics
- Prevention56▲ 3.2×15 topics
- Bone Regeneration44▲ 9.2×2 topics
- Diabetes Mellitus41▲ 4.7×8 topics
- Social Determinants40▲ 4.6×7 topics
- Oral Health37▲ 15×3 topics
- Dental Implants37▲ 18×1 topic
- Peri-implant Diseases37▲ 18×1 topic
- Conflict36▲ 5.4×9 topics
- Infection Control36▲ 10×3 topics
- Political Transition35▲ 17×4 topics
- Dental Materials34▲ 15×1 topic
- Restorative Dentistry34▲ 15×1 topic
- Fluoride33▲ 14×2 topics
- Dental Students32▲ 33×2 topics
- Leadership Development32▲ 21×4 topics
- Aerosols31▲ 11×2 topics
- Remineralization31▲ 18×1 topic
- Dental Practice31▲ 17×1 topic
- Inflammatory Pathways31▲ 11×2 topics
- Transmission Routes31▲ 17×1 topic
- Career Choice31▲ 26×2 topics
- Oral Microbiome30▲ 12×1 topic
- Periodontal Diseases30▲ 12×1 topic
- Myanmar30▲ 52×1 topic
Nepal
- Health Systems
- Health Inequalities
- Youth Employment
- Identity Politics
- Maternal Mortality
- IoT
- Poverty
- Food Security
- Depression
- Conflict
- Remote Sensing
- Pandemic
- Diagnosis
- Sustainable Development
- Environmental Impact
- Treatment
- COVID-19
- Sustainability
- Deep Learning
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Globalization
- Education
- Public Health
- Economic Growth
- Quality of Life
- Risk Factors
- Mental Health
- Renewable Energy
- Healthcare
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Management
- Risk Management
- Social Inequality
- Surgical Management
- Democratization
- Maoist Insurgency
- Community Health Workers
- Child Mortality
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology2,371▲ 1.61×135 topics
- Climate Change1,795▲ 1.78×118 topics
- Machine Learning1,547▲ 1.25×96 topics
- Deep Learning1,443◆ 1.13×85 topics
- Globalization1,274▲ 1.75×120 topics
- Sustainability1,243▲ 1.37×107 topics
- Education906▲ 1.42×107 topics
- COVID-19880▲ 1.83×31 topics
- Public Health754▲ 1.40×62 topics
- Treatment745▲ 1.65×52 topics
- Economic Growth711▲ 2.4×32 topics
- Environmental Impact703◆ 1.11×69 topics
- Quality of Life697▲ 1.30×57 topics
- Sustainable Development675▲ 1.16×94 topics
- Risk Factors662▲ 1.62×37 topics
- Diagnosis650▲ 1.88×41 topics
- Mental Health633▲ 1.19×45 topics
- Pandemic632▲ 1.72×13 topics
- Renewable Energy608◆ 1.13×55 topics
- Remote Sensing576▲ 1.27×42 topics
- Healthcare552▲ 1.31×38 topics
- Conflict544▲ 9.1×10 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease520▲ 1.23×39 topics
- Depression498▲ 1.53×25 topics
- Management494▲ 1.67×38 topics
- Food Security480▲ 2.4×22 topics
- Risk Management469▲ 2.7×17 topics
- Poverty416▲ 12×5 topics
- Social Inequality376▲ 3.8×11 topics
- IoT364▲ 2.6×19 topics
- Surgical Management362▲ 2.4×20 topics
- Maternal Mortality338▲ 4.1×5 topics
- Democratization326▲ 13×4 topics
- Identity Politics315▲ 18×3 topics
- Maoist Insurgency315▲ 161×1 topic
- Youth Employment315▲ 42×1 topic
- Community Health Workers245▲ 7.5×2 topics
- Health Inequalities239▲ 5.3×5 topics
- Child Mortality216▲ 8.1×1 topic
- Health Systems216▲ 8.1×1 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?
Nepal has out-published Myanmar every year since 2003, when it overtook it.
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, Myanmar or Nepal?
Nepal publishes 9.7× as much research as Myanmar in 2022-now (33k against 3.4k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Myanmar or Nepal?
5.6% of Myanmar's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.8% for Nepal.
Is Myanmar or Nepal growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +54% against 2018-21 for Nepal, and +3% for Myanmar.
Which has more open access research, Myanmar or Nepal?
76% of Nepal's research is free to read, against 45% of Myanmar's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Myanmar or Nepal?
Myanmar holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Nepal 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%.
Myanmar
- 1Department of Public Health10.4% top 10% · 277 works
- 2University Of Information Technology3.4% top 10% · 311 works
- 3University of Computer Studies Mandalay2.4% top 10% · 165 works
- 4University of Dental Medicine2.9% top 10% · 453 works
- 5University Of Medicine 1 Yangon8.6% top 10% · 162 works
- 6Ministry of Health5.1% top 10% · 206 works
Nepal
- 1Tribhuvan University4.7% top 10% · 16k works
- 2College of Medical Sciences4.8% top 10% · 558 works
- 3Nepal Development Research Institute8.8% top 10% · 409 works
- 4Pokhara University5.3% top 10% · 1.6k works
- 5Purbanchal University6.5% top 10% · 334 works
- 6Agriculture and Forestry University5.3% top 10% · 1.4k 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.
Myanmar
- 1 A. Y. Rodriguez #51,897 worldwide 20k citations · 132 works
- 2 Frank M. Smithuis #154,783 worldwide 5.5k citations · 124 works
- 3 Ye Htut #331,129 worldwide 4.9k citations · 30 works
- 4 Khin Maung Win #486,527 worldwide 4.8k citations · 88 works
- 5 Thae Maung Maung #489,374 worldwide 2.2k citations · 57 works
Nepal
- 1 Meghnath Dhimal #20,212 worldwide 83k citations · 338 works
- 2 Arun Bhakta Shrestha #60,021 worldwide 17k citations · 187 works
- 3 Mandira Lamichhane Dhimal #65,202 worldwide 21k citations · 63 works
- 4 Krishna Kumar Aryal #72,386 worldwide 11k citations · 105 works
- 5 Santosh Nepal #88,994 worldwide 6.7k citations · 130 works