Niger vs Papua New Guinea
On research quality in 2022-now, Papua New Guinea ranks #125 in the world and Niger #147, of 189 countries. Niger stands higher in 2 of the 2 fields both publish in, Papua New Guinea in 0.
Research profiles alike: 0.76very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured
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Niger
- World rank, 2022-now
- #147
- #130 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 1.5k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 4.0%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 47%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Forestry, Medical Terminology, Library and Information Sciences.
Papua New Guinea
- World rank, 2022-now
- #125
- #125 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 764
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 7.2%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 35%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Horticulture, Agronomy and Crop Science, Theoretical Computer Science.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Papua New Guinea leads on 6 of 9 measures: research quality, citation excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work, international co-authorship and growth. Niger leads on 2 of 9 measures: output and open access. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.
- #147Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#125
- 0.60×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.85×
- 1.5kOutputfractional works, 2022-now764
- 4.0%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited7.2%
- 10.5Citations per workall time, per fractional work14.9
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 47%Open accessof its works free to read, all time35%
- 36%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time38%
- +29%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+48%
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?
Niger stands higher in 2 of 2 fields, Papua New Guinea in 0. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
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 | Niger rank | Papua New Guinea rank | Niger top 10% | Papua New Guinea top 10% | Niger works | Papua New Guinea works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | #98 | - | 4.3% | - | 345 | - |
| Medicine | #120 | - | 2.9% | - | 373 | - |
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.
Niger
- Phytochemicals
- Health Inequalities
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition
- Agricultural Sustainability
- Maternal Mortality
- Breeding
- Drought Tolerance
- Nutritional Quality
- Remote Sensing
- Tree Domestication
- Rural Livelihoods
- Public Health
- Nutritional Value
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Multifunctionality
- Agroecology
- Diversity
- Smallholder Farmers
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Sustainability
- Adaptation
- Livestock Farming
- Agricultural Development
- Work Organization
- Climate Resilience
- Genetic Diversity
- Agroforestry
- Globalization
- Indigenous Fruits
- Environmental Impact
- Vaccine
- Food Security
- Pathogenesis
- Vaccine Development
- Global Burden of Disease
- Marker Development
- Water Sanitation Hygiene
- Community Health Workers
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Climate Change186▲ 3.8×72 topics
- Epidemiology162▲ 2.3×109 topics
- Sustainability152▲ 3.5×52 topics
- Smallholder Farmers150▲ 40×6 topics
- Adaptation112▲ 21×7 topics
- Diversity92▲ 29×7 topics
- Livestock Farming91▲ 86×3 topics
- Agroecology91▲ 36×2 topics
- Agricultural Development89▲ 33×2 topics
- Multifunctionality89▲ 106×1 topic
- Work Organization89▲ 129×1 topic
- Sustainable Agriculture72▲ 13×9 topics
- Climate Resilience69▲ 64×3 topics
- Biodiversity Conservation66▲ 9.8×12 topics
- Genetic Diversity58▲ 7.5×19 topics
- Nutritional Value57▲ 28×3 topics
- Agroforestry55▲ 46×4 topics
- Public Health52▲ 2.0×48 topics
- Globalization52▲ 1.48×56 topics
- Rural Livelihoods51▲ 53×2 topics
- Indigenous Fruits50▲ 123×1 topic
- Tree Domestication50▲ 123×1 topic
- Environmental Impact50▲ 1.63×46 topics
- Remote Sensing42▲ 1.94×25 topics
- Vaccine40▲ 5.6×11 topics
- Nutritional Quality36▲ 28×4 topics
- Food Security34▲ 3.5×15 topics
- Drought Tolerance34▲ 14×8 topics
- Pathogenesis34▲ 3.7×19 topics
- Breeding28▲ 21×5 topics
- Vaccine Development28▲ 6.0×10 topics
- Maternal Mortality27▲ 6.8×5 topics
- Global Burden of Disease25▲ 5.5×4 topics
- Agricultural Sustainability22▲ 11×4 topics
- Marker Development22▲ 27×3 topics
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition22▲ 15×1 topic
- Water Sanitation Hygiene22▲ 15×1 topic
- Health Inequalities22▲ 9.9×3 topics
- Community Health Workers21▲ 13×2 topics
- Phytochemicals20▲ 10×5 topics
Papua New Guinea
- Health Systems
- Essential Oils
- Islands
- Pacific
- Climate Resilience
- Pacific Islands
- Community Health Workers
- Island Ecosystems
- Maternal Mortality
- Smallholder Farmers
- Ethical Considerations
- Nutritional Quality
- Drought Tolerance
- Agriculture
- Economic Development
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Vulnerability
- Machine Learning
- Genetic Diversity
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
- Environmental Impact
- Epidemiology
- Globalization
- Biodiversity
- Supply Chain Management
- Genetics
- Breeding
- Food Security
- Governance
- Decolonization
- Archaeology
- Pest Management
- Cultural History
- Health Inequalities
- settlement
- Marker Development
- Socio-economic Factors
- Small States
- Child Mortality
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Climate Change63▲ 2.6×71 topics
- Sustainability62▲ 2.8×52 topics
- Environmental Impact50▲ 3.2×43 topics
- Genetic Diversity45▲ 11×19 topics
- Epidemiology42▲ 1.16×77 topics
- Machine Learning41▲ 1.35×61 topics
- Globalization36▲ 2.0×34 topics
- Vulnerability22▲ 10×7 topics
- Biodiversity22▲ 3.1×24 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture20▲ 7.2×13 topics
- Supply Chain Management20▲ 2.4×14 topics
- Economic Development19▲ 2.6×16 topics
- Genetics19▲ 3.0×18 topics
- Agriculture19▲ 5.4×10 topics
- Breeding18▲ 27×5 topics
- Drought Tolerance18▲ 15×8 topics
- Food Security17▲ 3.5×20 topics
- Nutritional Quality16▲ 25×4 topics
- Governance15▲ 5.2×8 topics
- Ethical Considerations15▲ 4.8×11 topics
- Decolonization15▲ 20×5 topics
- Smallholder Farmers14▲ 7.4×6 topics
- Archaeology13▲ 11×2 topics
- Maternal Mortality13▲ 6.4×5 topics
- Pest Management13▲ 17×5 topics
- Island Ecosystems13▲ 44×2 topics
- Cultural History13▲ 12×2 topics
- Community Health Workers12▲ 16×2 topics
- Health Inequalities12▲ 11×3 topics
- Pacific Islands12▲ 113×1 topic
- settlement12▲ 113×1 topic
- Climate Resilience12▲ 22×3 topics
- Marker Development12▲ 28×3 topics
- Pacific12▲ 70×2 topics
- Socio-economic Factors12▲ 12×2 topics
- Islands12▲ 117×1 topic
- Small States12▲ 117×1 topic
- Essential Oils12▲ 12×3 topics
- Child Mortality12▲ 18×1 topic
- Health Systems12▲ 18×1 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?
Niger has out-published Papua New Guinea every year since 1997, 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, Niger or Papua New Guinea?
Niger publishes 2.0× as much research as Papua New Guinea in 2022-now (1.5k against 764 fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Niger or Papua New Guinea?
7.2% of Papua New Guinea's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.0% for Niger.
Is Niger or Papua New Guinea growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +48% against 2018-21 for Papua New Guinea, and +29% for Niger.
Which has more open access research, Niger or Papua New Guinea?
47% of Niger's research is free to read, against 35% of Papua New Guinea's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Niger or Papua New Guinea?
Niger holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Papua New Guinea 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%.
Niger
- 1Université Abdou Moumouni3.2% top 10% · 539 works
- 2Université de Maradi3.2% top 10% · 135 works
- 3National Hospital Niamey2.5% top 10% · 161 works
- 4Ministère de la Santé Publique5.7% top 10% · 91 works
- 5Université André Salifou2.7% top 10% · 95 works
- 6Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger6.5% top 10% · 110 works
Papua New Guinea
- 1Papua New Guinea University of Technology6.3% top 10% · 258 works
- 2University of Papua New Guinea7.8% top 10% · 106 works
- 3National Agricultural Research Institute7.3% top 10% · 200 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.
Niger
- 1 Amadou Garba #483,222 worldwide 5.2k citations · 160 works
- 2 Abdou Ali #737,227 worldwide 2.9k citations · 72 works
- 3 Amina Amadou Hamidou #897,228 worldwide 804 citations · 33 works
- 4 Mahamadou Bassirou Souleymane #1,126,005 worldwide 1.2k citations · 28 works
- 5 Ousmane Guindo #1,234,502 worldwide 1.2k citations · 79 works
Papua New Guinea
- 1 Leanne J. Robinson #111,710 worldwide 7.4k citations · 206 works
- 2 Livingstone Tavul #186,317 worldwide 3k citations · 52 works
- 3 Enmoore Lin #330,527 worldwide 4.6k citations · 77 works
- 4 Peter Siba #342,115 worldwide 8.8k citations · 200 works
- 5 Michael P. Alpers #352,550 worldwide 16k citations · 278 works