Namibia vs Sri Lanka
On research quality in 2022-now, Namibia ranks #93 in the world and Sri Lanka #96, of 189 countries. Namibia stands higher in 3 of the 16 fields both publish in, Sri Lanka in 13.
Research profiles alike: 0.79very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured
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Namibia
- World rank, 2022-now
- #93
- #111 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 2.3k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 6.2%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 57%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Research and Theory, Archeology, Library and Information Sciences.
Sri Lanka
- World rank, 2022-now
- #96
- #99 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 21k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 5.9%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 60%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Archeology, Space and Planetary Science, Paleontology.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Namibia leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, international co-authorship and growth. Sri Lanka leads on 2 of 9 measures: output and open access. The two are level on top-10% rate, citations per work and institutions in the world top 100.
- #93Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#96
- 0.93×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.52×
- 2.3kOutputfractional works, 2022-now21k
- 6.2%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.9%
- 9.1Citations per workall time, per fractional work9.3
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 57%Open accessof its works free to read, all time60%
- 38%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time22%
- +43%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+16%
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?
Namibia stands higher in 3 of 16 fields, Sri Lanka in 13. Sri Lanka leads most in Environmental Science (#82 against #95); Namibia leads most in Medicine (#95 against #124). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- -Agricultural and Biological Sciences#87
- -Arts and Humanities#85
- -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#84
- -Business, Management and Accounting#90
- -Chemistry#59
- #81Computer Science#90
- -Decision Sciences#67
- -Earth and Planetary Sciences#60
- -Economics, Econometrics and Finance#97
- -Engineering#82
- #95Environmental Science#82
- -Health Professions#90
- -Materials Science#80
- #95Medicine#124
- -Psychology#78
- #93Social Sciences#101
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 | Namibia rank | Sri Lanka rank | Namibia top 10% | Sri Lanka top 10% | Namibia works | Sri Lanka works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | - | #87 | - | 7.2% | - | 1.7k |
| Arts and Humanities | - | #85 | - | 10.2% | - | 808 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | - | #84 | - | 6.2% | - | 787 |
| Business, Management and Accounting | - | #90 | - | 4.9% | - | 1.3k |
| Chemistry | - | #59 | - | 8.2% | - | 224 |
| Computer Science | #81 | #90 | 4.4% | 4.8% | 210 | 1.8k |
| Decision Sciences | - | #67 | - | 4.3% | - | 404 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | - | #60 | - | 7.7% | - | 463 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | - | #97 | - | 5.6% | - | 678 |
| Engineering | - | #82 | - | 6.0% | - | 2.3k |
| Environmental Science | #95 | #82 | 6.0% | 6.2% | 208 | 1.6k |
| Health Professions | - | #90 | - | 5.4% | - | 624 |
| Materials Science | - | #80 | - | 6.7% | - | 428 |
| Medicine | #95 | #124 | 6.8% | 4.3% | 240 | 3.8k |
| Psychology | - | #78 | - | 4.7% | - | 714 |
| Social Sciences | #93 | #101 | 6.1% | 7.2% | 482 | 2.4k |
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.
Namibia
- Gender Inequality
- Language Policy
- Animal Movement
- Multilingualism
- Poverty Reduction
- Community Health Workers
- Rural Development
- Job Satisfaction
- Colonialism
- Biodiversity
- Technology Integration
- Economic Development
- Social Capital
- Big Data
- Healthcare
- Renewable Energy
- Higher Education
- Artificial Intelligence
- Globalization
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Education
- Sustainable Development
- Mental Health
- Internet of Things
- Educational Technology
- Supply Chain Management
- Innovation
- Economic Growth
- Leadership
- Population Dynamics
- Lifelong Learning
- Habitat Selection
- Cloud Computing
- Trophic Cascades
- Student Perceptions
- Bilingual Education
- Occupancy Rates
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Climate Change142▲ 1.98×86 topics
- Sustainability137▲ 2.1×77 topics
- Machine Learning109▲ 1.25×64 topics
- Globalization101▲ 1.96×83 topics
- Deep Learning88◆ 0.97×63 topics
- Artificial Intelligence71▲ 1.89×38 topics
- Education66▲ 1.47×58 topics
- Higher Education65▲ 4.6×23 topics
- Sustainable Development65▲ 1.57×59 topics
- Renewable Energy62▲ 1.62×36 topics
- Mental Health60▲ 1.60×35 topics
- Healthcare59▲ 1.97×21 topics
- Internet of Things59▲ 2.6×22 topics
- Big Data58▲ 2.3×22 topics
- Educational Technology56▲ 1.80×29 topics
- Social Capital54▲ 4.0×17 topics
- Supply Chain Management54▲ 2.3×17 topics
- Economic Development50▲ 2.4×23 topics
- Innovation50▲ 1.82×44 topics
- Technology Integration48▲ 5.8×12 topics
- Economic Growth47▲ 2.2×26 topics
- Biodiversity46▲ 2.3×30 topics
- Leadership42▲ 3.2×21 topics
- Colonialism40▲ 3.2×16 topics
- Population Dynamics40▲ 5.8×10 topics
- Job Satisfaction39▲ 3.4×14 topics
- Lifelong Learning39▲ 7.2×9 topics
- Rural Development37▲ 4.1×13 topics
- Habitat Selection33▲ 17×2 topics
- Community Health Workers33▲ 14×2 topics
- Cloud Computing32▲ 4.3×12 topics
- Poverty Reduction32▲ 9.2×6 topics
- Trophic Cascades31▲ 13×2 topics
- Multilingualism31▲ 7.3×4 topics
- Student Perceptions28▲ 5.9×7 topics
- Animal Movement27▲ 20×1 topic
- Bilingual Education27▲ 8.9×3 topics
- Language Policy27▲ 7.4×3 topics
- Occupancy Rates27▲ 20×1 topic
- Gender Inequality24▲ 6.6×6 topics
Sri Lanka
- economic effects
- Food Supply Chain
- Archaeology of Resistance
- Radiocarbon Dating
- Antimicrobial
- Intersectionality
- Recycling
- Environmental Monitoring
- Genetic Diversity
- Convolutional Neural Networks
- Antioxidant Activity
- Healthcare
- Risk Management
- Antioxidant
- Public Health
- Neural Networks
- Supply Chain Management
- Environmental Impact
- Sustainability
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Climate Change
- Globalization
- COVID-19
- Remote Sensing
- Renewable Energy
- Consumer Behavior
- Pandemic
- Economic Growth
- Social Capital
- Ecosystem Services
- Digital Transformation
- Vaccine Development
- Waste Management
- Social Inequality
- Agricultural Origins
- African Diaspora
- Black Feminist Theory
- business impact
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Machine Learning1,193▲ 1.47×96 topics
- Epidemiology1,177▲ 1.21×138 topics
- Deep Learning1,168▲ 1.39×85 topics
- Sustainability1,018▲ 1.71×114 topics
- Climate Change964▲ 1.45×116 topics
- Environmental Impact722▲ 1.74×68 topics
- Globalization519◆ 1.08×127 topics
- Supply Chain Management468▲ 2.1×24 topics
- COVID-19467▲ 1.48×29 topics
- Neural Networks460▲ 1.22×40 topics
- Remote Sensing423▲ 1.42×36 topics
- Public Health409◆ 1.15×60 topics
- Renewable Energy399◆ 1.13×55 topics
- Antioxidant389▲ 2.3×51 topics
- Consumer Behavior368▲ 2.4×18 topics
- Risk Management365▲ 3.1×20 topics
- Pandemic361▲ 1.49×13 topics
- Healthcare336▲ 1.21×36 topics
- Economic Growth310▲ 1.56×35 topics
- Antioxidant Activity293▲ 1.93×31 topics
- Social Capital292▲ 2.3×20 topics
- Convolutional Neural Networks282▲ 1.59×14 topics
- Ecosystem Services274▲ 2.9×14 topics
- Genetic Diversity269▲ 2.5×22 topics
- Digital Transformation249▲ 1.89×23 topics
- Environmental Monitoring224▲ 2.4×15 topics
- Vaccine Development223▲ 3.6×11 topics
- Recycling221▲ 2.4×10 topics
- Waste Management217▲ 2.2×11 topics
- Intersectionality203▲ 4.4×13 topics
- Social Inequality201▲ 3.1×13 topics
- Antimicrobial200▲ 2.9×13 topics
- Agricultural Origins190▲ 24×1 topic
- Radiocarbon Dating190▲ 24×1 topic
- African Diaspora177▲ 19×4 topics
- Archaeology of Resistance174▲ 79×1 topic
- Black Feminist Theory174▲ 79×1 topic
- Food Supply Chain159▲ 5.8×2 topics
- business impact135▲ 6.2×1 topic
- economic effects135▲ 6.2×1 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?
Sri Lanka has out-published Namibia 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, Namibia or Sri Lanka?
Sri Lanka publishes 9.2× as much research as Namibia in 2022-now (21k against 2.3k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Namibia or Sri Lanka?
6.2% of Namibia's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.9% for Sri Lanka.
Is Namibia or Sri Lanka growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +43% against 2018-21 for Namibia, and +16% for Sri Lanka.
Which has more open access research, Namibia or Sri Lanka?
60% of Sri Lanka's research is free to read, against 57% of Namibia's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Namibia or Sri Lanka?
Namibia holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Sri Lanka 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%.
Namibia
- 1University of Namibia5.5% top 10% · 1.4k works
- 2Namibia University of Science and Technology7.0% top 10% · 641 works
- 3International University of Management6.6% top 10% · 111 works
Sri Lanka
- 1University of Moratuwa5.1% top 10% · 2.2k works
- 2University of Sri Jayewardenepura5.5% top 10% · 1.9k works
- 3Department of Archaeology13.1% top 10% · 1.1k works
- 4University of Jaffna9.1% top 10% · 746 works
- 5University of Peradeniya5.7% top 10% · 1.9k works
- 6General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University3.9% top 10% · 569 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.
Namibia
- 1 Michael Sony #63,785 worldwide 6.2k citations · 191 works
- 2 Uchendu Eugene Chigbu #104,490 worldwide 2.1k citations · 87 works
- 3 Gillian Maggs‐Kölling #275,971 worldwide 2.7k citations · 102 works
- 4 Mary Seely #392,753 worldwide 5.9k citations · 164 works
- 5 Subhash S. Naik #540,111 worldwide 2k citations · 20 works
Sri Lanka
- 1 Samath Dhamminda Dharmaratne #11,594 worldwide 239k citations · 254 works
- 2 Meththika Suharshini Vithanage #12,535 worldwide 34k citations · 518 works
- 3 Nuwan Darshana Wickramasinghe #21,611 worldwide 40k citations · 179 works
- 4 Anushka Upamali Rajapaksha #43,312 worldwide 13k citations · 136 works
- 5 Devarajan Rathish #81,508 worldwide 12k citations · 102 works