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New Caledonia vs Suriname

On research quality in 2022-now, New Caledonia ranks #137 in the world and Suriname #173, of 189 countries.

Research profiles alike: 0.76very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured

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New Caledonia

World rank, 2022-now
#137
#126 all time
Works, 2022-now
498
fractional
Top-10% rate
6.0%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
41%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Linguistics and Language, Parasitology, Oceanography.

Suriname

World rank, 2022-now
#173
#187 all time
Works, 2022-now
242
fractional
Top-10% rate
4.3%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
63%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Biochemistry, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Health Information Management.

Who leads, measure by measure?

New Caledonia leads on 7 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, citations per work, international co-authorship and growth. Suriname leads on 1 of 9 measures: open access. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

New Caledonia 71 level1 Suriname
  1. #137Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#173
  2. 0.97×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.90×
  3. 498Outputfractional works, 2022-now242
  4. 6.0%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited4.3%
  5. 21.3Citations per workall time, per fractional work8.0
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 41%Open accessof its works free to read, all time63%
  8. 50%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time39%
  9. +40%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+4%

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.

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.

New Caledonia

▲ 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. Globalization74▲ 6.9×46 topics
  2. Climate Change71▲ 4.8×69 topics
  3. Decolonization48▲ 108×5 topics
  4. Sustainability47▲ 3.5×29 topics
  5. Identity35▲ 8.9×21 topics
  6. Colonialism33▲ 13×17 topics
  7. Economic Development32▲ 7.4×9 topics
  8. Vulnerability32▲ 25×7 topics
  9. Governance32▲ 18×8 topics
  10. Sociolinguistics30▲ 30×7 topics
  11. Resilience30▲ 11×7 topics
  12. Pacific27▲ 263×2 topics
  13. Islands27▲ 438×1 topic
  14. Migration27▲ 14×10 topics
  15. Small States27▲ 438×1 topic
  16. Public Health26▲ 3.2×31 topics
  17. Social Justice24▲ 7.4×17 topics
  18. Cultural Diversity24▲ 20×7 topics
  19. Multiculturalism22▲ 22×4 topics
  20. Environmental Impact21▲ 2.3×28 topics
  21. Ethnicity21▲ 10×8 topics
  22. Indigenous Peoples21▲ 151×3 topics
  23. Multilingualism21▲ 24×4 topics
  24. Cultural Defense19▲ 1623×1 topic
  25. Postcolonial Theory19▲ 131×1 topic
  26. Ocean Acidification17▲ 42×3 topics
  27. Population Dynamics17▲ 12×11 topics
  28. Conservation16▲ 6.8×16 topics
  29. Marine Ecosystems16▲ 53×2 topics
  30. Ecosystem Services15▲ 6.9×8 topics
  31. Community Engagement14▲ 7.8×8 topics
  32. Healthcare Access14▲ 9.2×5 topics
  33. Social Inequality14▲ 9.4×6 topics
  34. Nationalism14▲ 5.5×10 topics
  35. Language Policy14▲ 18×3 topics
  36. Vaccine Development13▲ 9.3×8 topics
  37. Discrimination13▲ 11×4 topics
  38. French Territories12▲ 234×1 topic
  39. Migrant Workers12▲ 234×1 topic
  40. Bleaching12▲ 64×1 topic

Suriname

▲ 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. Community Empowerment25▲ 13×9 topics
  2. Health Education24▲ 21×6 topics
  3. Epidemiology18▲ 1.74×50 topics
  4. Non-Communicable Diseases17▲ 23×3 topics
  5. Maternal Health17▲ 25×3 topics
  6. Breastfeeding16▲ 27×2 topics
  7. Child Nutrition16▲ 33×1 topic
  8. Stunting16▲ 33×1 topic
  9. Sustainable Development15▲ 3.7×23 topics
  10. Environmental Impact14▲ 3.1×27 topics
  11. Sustainability14▲ 2.1×21 topics
  12. Climate Change12▲ 1.71×34 topics
  13. Food Safety12▲ 15×6 topics
  14. Antioxidant Activity11▲ 6.5×8 topics
  15. Mental Health10▲ 2.6×20 topics
  16. Biodiversity10▲ 4.8×17 topics
  17. COVID-1910▲ 2.8×12 topics
  18. Public Health9▲ 2.4×25 topics
  19. Remote Sensing8▲ 2.6×10 topics
  20. Pandemic8▲ 3.1×7 topics
  21. Nutrition8▲ 7.0×6 topics
  22. Mineral Content8▲ 30×2 topics
  23. Food Composition8▲ 36×1 topic
  24. Nutrient Analysis8▲ 36×1 topic
  25. Antioxidants7▲ 6.3×7 topics
  26. Community Participation7▲ 7.6×5 topics
  27. Healthcare Access7▲ 9.5×6 topics
  28. Local Wisdom7▲ 5.5×6 topics
  29. Economic Impact7▲ 4.6×3 topics
  30. Indonesia6▲ 5.5×3 topics
  31. Medicinal Plants6▲ 6.3×10 topics
  32. Patient Satisfaction5▲ 6.4×5 topics
  33. Health Research5▲ 18×2 topics
  34. Organizational Behavior5▲ 12×3 topics
  35. Barriers5▲ 23×1 topic
  36. Nursing5▲ 9.9×2 topics
  37. Patient Experience5▲ 18×2 topics
  38. Quality of Service5▲ 19×1 topic
  39. Behavioral Science5▲ 44×1 topic
  40. Medical Physiology5▲ 44×1 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?

New Caledonia has out-published Suriname every year since 1982, when it overtook it.

still counting50100150New Caledonia134 in 2025Suriname71 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 counting0.0020%0.0040%New Caledonia0.0023% in 2025Suriname0.0012% 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 counting10%20%New Caledonia6.6% in 2025Suriname4.7% 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.

New Caledonia 05 level0 Suriname
  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, New Caledonia or Suriname?

New Caledonia publishes 2.1× as much research as Suriname in 2022-now (498 against 242 fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, New Caledonia or Suriname?

6.0% of New Caledonia's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.3% for Suriname.

Is New Caledonia or Suriname growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +40% against 2018-21 for New Caledonia, and +4% for Suriname.

Which has more open access research, New Caledonia or Suriname?

63% of Suriname's research is free to read, against 41% of New Caledonia's.

Which has more world-class institutions, New Caledonia or Suriname?

New Caledonia holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Suriname 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%.

New Caledonia

  1. 1University of New Caledonia4.9% top 10% · 353 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.

New Caledonia

  1. 1 Johann D. Bell #196,760 worldwide 12k citations · 139 works
  2. 2 Valérie Allain #399,816 worldwide 3.9k citations · 94 works
  3. 3 Myrielle Dupont‐Rouzeyrol #497,548 worldwide 4k citations · 92 works
  4. 4 Dominique Cluzel #514,954 worldwide 6k citations · 153 works
  5. 5 John Hampton #647,659 worldwide 5.8k citations · 119 works

Suriname

  1. 1 Tom Hendriks #1,176,387 worldwide 1k citations · 19 works
  2. 2 Paul Edward Ouboter #1,313,853 worldwide 2.2k citations · 91 works
  3. 3 Jan H.A. Mol #1,401,085 worldwide 1.4k citations · 68 works
  4. 4 Stephen Vreden #1,599,189 worldwide 2k citations · 127 works
  5. 5 Rosita Bihariesingh-Sanchit #1,962,603 worldwide 187 citations · 25 works