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New Zealand vs Uruguay

On research quality in 2022-now, New Zealand ranks #25 in the world and Uruguay #80, of 189 countries. New Zealand stands higher in 23 of the 23 fields both publish in, Uruguay in 0.

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New Zealand

World rank, 2022-now
#25
#26 all time
Works, 2022-now
48k
fractional
Top-10% rate
12.0%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
37%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Public Administration, Equine, Medical Terminology.

Uruguay

World rank, 2022-now
#80
#73 all time
Works, 2022-now
10k
fractional
Top-10% rate
5.7%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
58%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Life-span and Life-course Studies, Paleontology, General Social Sciences.

Who leads, measure by measure?

New Zealand leads on 5 of 9 measures: research quality, citation excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate and citations per work. Uruguay leads on 3 of 9 measures: open access, international co-authorship and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

New Zealand 51 level3 Uruguay
  1. #25Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#80
  2. 1.05×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.70×
  3. 48kOutputfractional works, 2022-now10k
  4. 12.0%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.7%
  5. 26.5Citations per workall time, per fractional work9.6
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 37%Open accessof its works free to read, all time58%
  8. 26%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time36%
  9. -6%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+6%

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, citation excellence and the top-10% rate are explained in the methodology.

Who leads in each field?

New Zealand stands higher in 23 of 23 fields, Uruguay in 0. New Zealand leads most in Business, Management and Accounting (#23 against #87). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

New Zealand 230 Uruguay
  1. #26Agricultural and Biological Sciences#83
  2. #31Arts and Humanities#60
  3. #27Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#54
  4. #23Business, Management and Accounting#87
  5. #25Chemistry-
  6. #29Computer Science#100
  7. #29Decision Sciences-
  8. #28Dentistry-
  9. #18Earth and Planetary Sciences-
  10. #28Economics, Econometrics and Finance#77
  11. #35Energy-
  12. #29Engineering#102
  13. #26Environmental Science#88
  14. #27Health Professions#60
  15. #27Immunology and Microbiology-
  16. #29Materials Science-
  17. #35Mathematics-
  18. #24Medicine#65
  19. #28Neuroscience-
  20. #27Nursing-
  21. #34Physics and Astronomy-
  22. #22Psychology#68
  23. #30Social Sciences#67

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 New Zealand rankUruguay rank New Zealand top 10%Uruguay top 10% New Zealand worksUruguay works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #26 #83 13.1% 6.1% 2.8k 914
Arts and Humanities #31 #60 15.7% 8.3% 1.5k 354
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #27 #54 11.3% 5.2% 2.6k 624
Business, Management and Accounting #23 #87 17.1% 5.5% 1.6k 229
Chemistry #25 - 11.0% - 452 -
Computer Science #29 #100 13.0% 5.0% 2.7k 500
Decision Sciences #29 - 12.0% - 566 -
Dentistry #28 - 15.3% - 205 -
Earth and Planetary Sciences #18 - 11.5% - 1.2k -
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #28 #77 12.4% 7.3% 1.2k 240
Energy #35 - 13.0% - 261 -
Engineering #29 #102 11.9% 4.2% 4.4k 448
Environmental Science #26 #88 10.2% 5.2% 3.7k 686
Health Professions #27 #60 11.4% 4.9% 2k 460
Immunology and Microbiology #27 - 12.0% - 393 -
Materials Science #29 - 11.8% - 701 -
Mathematics #35 - 9.3% - 385 -
Medicine #24 #65 11.1% 4.1% 9.4k 2.2k
Neuroscience #28 - 9.3% - 964 -
Nursing #27 - 13.2% - 355 -
Physics and Astronomy #34 - 10.1% - 624 -
Psychology #22 #68 11.5% 4.8% 2.6k 333
Social Sciences #30 #67 12.6% 7.6% 7.3k 2.2k

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.

New Zealand

▲ 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. Climate Change2,990▲ 2.0×120 topics
  2. Epidemiology2,618▲ 1.20×140 topics
  3. Sustainability1,660▲ 1.24×128 topics
  4. Globalization1,399▲ 1.30×155 topics
  5. Machine Learning1,285▼ 0.71×95 topics
  6. Mental Health1,185▲ 1.52×47 topics
  7. Deep Learning1,181▼ 0.63×83 topics
  8. Public Health1,150▲ 1.45×74 topics
  9. Inflammation1,100◆ 0.95×83 topics
  10. Environmental Impact1,039◆ 1.11×69 topics
  11. Quality of Life870◆ 1.10×60 topics
  12. Biodiversity807▲ 1.94×36 topics
  13. Resilience776▲ 2.9×18 topics
  14. Invasive Species743▲ 3.2×21 topics
  15. Risk Factors731▲ 1.22×37 topics
  16. Cardiovascular Disease700◆ 1.12×39 topics
  17. Vulnerability662▲ 5.2×9 topics
  18. Depression656▲ 1.37×26 topics
  19. Social Capital551▲ 1.94×20 topics
  20. Social Justice547▲ 1.68×49 topics
  21. Health Equity511▲ 3.2×6 topics
  22. Ecosystem Services508▲ 2.4×14 topics
  23. Conservation498▲ 2.1×24 topics
  24. Population Dynamics469▲ 3.3×13 topics
  25. Global Warming462▲ 1.98×15 topics
  26. Ethics460▲ 1.66×56 topics
  27. Decolonization456▲ 10×8 topics
  28. Primary Care444▲ 2.2×15 topics
  29. Neoliberalism437▲ 2.2×27 topics
  30. Ethical Considerations419▲ 2.2×19 topics
  31. Well-being404▲ 1.90×14 topics
  32. Biogeography358▲ 2.4×20 topics
  33. Habitat Fragmentation357▲ 3.0×5 topics
  34. Global Change354▲ 2.5×7 topics
  35. Reflective Practice326▲ 3.2×7 topics
  36. Settler Colonialism268▲ 12×2 topics
  37. Traditional Ecological Knowledge266▲ 11×2 topics
  38. Indigenous Knowledge Systems265▲ 15×3 topics
  39. Historical Trauma256▲ 31×1 topic
  40. Indigenous Health256▲ 31×1 topic

Uruguay

▲ 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. Epidemiology790▲ 1.68×137 topics
  2. Climate Change549▲ 1.71×107 topics
  3. Globalization529▲ 2.3×120 topics
  4. Public Health505▲ 2.9×68 topics
  5. Education416▲ 2.0×104 topics
  6. Sustainability402▲ 1.39×101 topics
  7. Quality of Life357▲ 2.1×58 topics
  8. Latin America301▲ 13×23 topics
  9. Educational Technology292▲ 2.1×37 topics
  10. Biodiversity287▲ 3.2×33 topics
  11. Human Rights286▲ 2.4×58 topics
  12. Mental Health259▲ 1.53×47 topics
  13. Oxidative Stress258▲ 1.32×60 topics
  14. Innovation246▲ 2.0×56 topics
  15. Sustainable Development245▲ 1.32×66 topics
  16. Healthcare238▲ 1.76×29 topics
  17. Public Policy231▲ 4.1×23 topics
  18. Qualitative Research220▲ 2.2×31 topics
  19. Treatment218▲ 1.52×51 topics
  20. Healthcare Access205▲ 6.4×12 topics
  21. Knowledge Management196▲ 3.0×29 topics
  22. Teacher Training196▲ 2.7×23 topics
  23. Social Movements192▲ 5.5×29 topics
  24. Social Determinants181▲ 7.4×8 topics
  25. Social Inequality169▲ 5.3×16 topics
  26. Invasive Species160▲ 3.2×20 topics
  27. Drug Resistance157▲ 4.6×9 topics
  28. Health Policy156▲ 8.6×7 topics
  29. Communication144▲ 3.9×23 topics
  30. Inclusive Education138▲ 3.2×18 topics
  31. Evolution135▲ 4.2×17 topics
  32. Chronic Diseases127▲ 4.2×9 topics
  33. Inequality117▲ 4.3×15 topics
  34. Welfare State106▲ 11×4 topics
  35. Constitutional Law102▲ 6.6×7 topics
  36. Research99▲ 6.7×10 topics
  37. Legal Theory98▲ 12×3 topics
  38. Legal Philosophy96▲ 13×2 topics
  39. Dairy Cattle95▲ 15×2 topics
  40. Aging Population95▲ 9.1×4 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?

New Zealand has out-published Uruguay every year since 1980.

still counting5k10k15kNew Zealand12k in 2025Uruguay2,758 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%0.60%New Zealand0.20% in 2025Uruguay0.047% 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%New Zealand12.1% in 2025Uruguay5.7% 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 Zealand 32 level0 Uruguay
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 1In the top 5000
  4. 6In the top 1,0000
  5. #25Elite 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 Zealand or Uruguay?

New Zealand publishes 4.7× as much research as Uruguay in 2022-now (48k against 10k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, New Zealand or Uruguay?

12.0% of New Zealand's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 5.7% for Uruguay.

Is New Zealand or Uruguay growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +6% against 2018-21 for Uruguay, and -6% for New Zealand.

Which has more open access research, New Zealand or Uruguay?

58% of Uruguay's research is free to read, against 37% of New Zealand's.

Which has more world-class institutions, New Zealand or Uruguay?

New Zealand holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Uruguay 0; in the top 1,000 it is 6 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 Zealand

  1. 1University of Auckland13.6% top 10% · 11k works
  2. 2University of Otago11.4% top 10% · 6.2k works
  3. 3Victoria University of Wellington11.5% top 10% · 4.4k works
  4. 4University of Canterbury12.2% top 10% · 3.3k works
  5. 5Auckland University of Technology12.1% top 10% · 3.7k works
  6. 6Massey University13.3% top 10% · 3.7k works

Uruguay

  1. 1Universidad de la República de Uruguay5.3% top 10% · 5.3k works
  2. 2Universitario Francisco de Asís4.0% top 10% · 1.6k works
  3. 3Universidad de Montevideo5.6% top 10% · 567 works
  4. 4Universidad Católica del Uruguay9.4% top 10% · 277 works
  5. 5Universidad ORT Uruguay10.3% top 10% · 276 works
  6. 6Ministerio de Educación y Cultura9.5% top 10% · 195 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 Zealand

  1. 1 Lawrence Jun Zhang #225 worldwide 13k citations · 435 works
  2. 2 Geoffrey I. N. Waterhouse #3,932 worldwide 62k citations · 716 works
  3. 3 Simon J. Greenhill #4,052 worldwide 11k citations · 298 works
  4. 4 Valery L. Feigin #4,707 worldwide 341k citations · 657 works
  5. 5 Rod Ellis #4,784 worldwide 46k citations · 370 works

Uruguay

  1. 1 Rafael Radí #57,480 worldwide 48k citations · 529 works
  2. 2 Valentina Colistro #96,125 worldwide 24k citations · 76 works
  3. 3 Gustavo J. Nagy #150,922 worldwide 3.4k citations · 101 works
  4. 4 José Luis Badano #151,123 worldwide 8.5k citations · 73 works
  5. 5 Gastón Ares #170,491 worldwide 24k citations · 521 works

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