Niger vs Somalia
On research quality in 2022-now, Somalia ranks #146 in the world and Niger #147, of 189 countries. Niger stands higher in 2 of the 3 fields both publish in, Somalia in 1.
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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.
Somalia
- World rank, 2022-now
- #146
- #183 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 2.5k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 10.2%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 81%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Somalia leads on 7 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, open access, international co-authorship and growth. Niger leads on 1 of 9 measures: citations per work. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.
- #147Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#146
- 0.60×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.71×
- 1.5kOutputfractional works, 2022-now2.5k
- 4.0%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited10.2%
- 10.5Citations per workall time, per fractional work4.8
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 47%Open accessof its works free to read, all time81%
- 36%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time50%
- +29%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+194%
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?
Niger stands higher in 2 of 3 fields, Somalia in 1. Niger leads most in Medicine (#120 against #126). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- #98Agricultural and Biological Sciences-
- #120Medicine#126
- -Social Sciences#117
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 | Somalia rank | Niger top 10% | Somalia top 10% | Niger works | Somalia works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | #98 | - | 4.3% | - | 345 | - |
| Medicine | #120 | #126 | 2.9% | 5.7% | 373 | 959 |
| Social Sciences | - | #117 | - | 14.5% | - | 413 |
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
Somalia
- Respiratory Infections
- Global Health
- Water Sanitation Hygiene
- Agriculture
- Global Burden of Disease
- Mortality
- Global Burden
- Risk Management
- Management
- Child Mortality
- Pathogenesis
- Vaccine
- Community Health Workers
- Education
- Risk Factors
- Renewable Energy
- Treatment
- Public Health
- Sustainability
- Globalization
- Epidemiology
- Climate Change
- Economic Growth
- Inflammation
- Maternal Mortality
- Diagnosis
- COVID-19
- Immune Response
- Health Inequalities
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Socio-economic Factors
- Health Systems
- Child Development
- Poverty Reduction
- Food Security
- Governance
- Vulnerability
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition
- Conflict
- Gender Inequality
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology316▲ 2.4×129 topics
- Globalization122▲ 1.90×80 topics
- Climate Change118▲ 1.32×67 topics
- Sustainability107▲ 1.34×62 topics
- Economic Growth100▲ 3.8×23 topics
- Public Health96▲ 2.0×57 topics
- Inflammation94▲ 1.36×73 topics
- Treatment92▲ 2.3×51 topics
- Maternal Mortality90▲ 12×5 topics
- Renewable Energy86▲ 1.81×33 topics
- Diagnosis82▲ 2.7×41 topics
- Risk Factors82▲ 2.3×36 topics
- COVID-1979▲ 1.85×31 topics
- Education77▲ 1.37×69 topics
- Immune Response70▲ 3.8×20 topics
- Community Health Workers69▲ 24×2 topics
- Health Inequalities69▲ 17×4 topics
- Vaccine69▲ 5.3×11 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease69▲ 1.84×37 topics
- Pathogenesis66▲ 3.9×24 topics
- Socio-economic Factors64▲ 18×2 topics
- Child Mortality64▲ 27×1 topic
- Health Systems64▲ 27×1 topic
- Management64▲ 2.4×32 topics
- Child Development60▲ 4.4×8 topics
- Risk Management57▲ 3.7×12 topics
- Poverty Reduction57▲ 13×5 topics
- Global Burden55▲ 3.1×12 topics
- Food Security52▲ 2.9×15 topics
- Mortality51▲ 2.7×13 topics
- Governance48▲ 4.5×13 topics
- Global Burden of Disease46▲ 5.6×4 topics
- Vulnerability45▲ 5.9×5 topics
- Agriculture45▲ 3.6×12 topics
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition42▲ 16×1 topic
- Water Sanitation Hygiene42▲ 16×1 topic
- Conflict40▲ 7.5×10 topics
- Global Health35▲ 6.9×6 topics
- Gender Inequality34▲ 7.4×5 topics
- Respiratory Infections33▲ 8.8×3 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?
Somalia has out-published Niger every year since 2021, 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 Somalia?
Somalia publishes 1.7× as much research as Niger in 2022-now (2.5k against 1.5k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Niger or Somalia?
10.2% of Somalia's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.0% for Niger.
Is Niger or Somalia growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +194% against 2018-21 for Somalia, and +29% for Niger.
Which has more open access research, Niger or Somalia?
81% of Somalia's research is free to read, against 47% of Niger's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Niger or Somalia?
Niger holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Somalia 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
Somalia
- 1SIMAD University20.2% top 10% · 423 works
- 2Somali National University13.1% top 10% · 179 works
- 3University of Somalia8.9% top 10% · 139 works
- 4Jamhuriya University of Science and Technology21.2% top 10% · 128 works
- 5Mogadishu University10.0% top 10% · 153 works
- 6Amoud University17.8% top 10% · 94 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
Somalia
- 1 Jama Mohamed #49,156 worldwide 20k citations · 51 works
- 2 Abdikafi Hassan Abdi #80,606 worldwide 681 citations · 53 works
- 3 Abdimalik Ali Warsame #155,996 worldwide 1.2k citations · 67 works
- 4 Ahmed Ismail Mohamed #279,065 worldwide 9.3k citations · 42 works
- 5 Bashir Mohamed Osman #336,096 worldwide 1.3k citations · 28 works