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Paraguay vs Sri Lanka

On research quality in 2022-now, Sri Lanka ranks #96 in the world and Paraguay #98, of 189 countries. Paraguay stands higher in 2 of the 16 fields both publish in, Sri Lanka in 14.

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Paraguay

World rank, 2022-now
#98
#127 all time
Works, 2022-now
6k
fractional
Top-10% rate
4.7%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
74%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Computer Science Applications, General Social Sciences, Pharmacy.

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?

Paraguay leads on 4 of 9 measures: citation excellence for its fields, open access, international co-authorship and growth. Sri Lanka leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, output, top-10% rate and citations per work. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Paraguay 41 level4 Sri Lanka
  1. #98Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#96
  2. 0.66×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.52×
  3. 6kOutputfractional works, 2022-now21k
  4. 4.7%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.9%
  5. 4.0Citations per workall time, per fractional work9.3
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 74%Open accessof its works free to read, all time60%
  8. 29%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time22%
  9. +21%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, citation excellence and the top-10% rate are explained in the methodology.

Who leads in each field?

Paraguay stands higher in 2 of 16 fields, Sri Lanka in 14. Sri Lanka leads most in Engineering (#82 against #122); Paraguay leads most in Medicine (#81 against #124). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Paraguay 214 Sri Lanka
  1. #111Agricultural and Biological Sciences#87
  2. -Arts and Humanities#85
  3. -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#84
  4. #100Business, Management and Accounting#90
  5. -Chemistry#59
  6. #119Computer Science#90
  7. -Decision Sciences#67
  8. -Earth and Planetary Sciences#60
  9. #100Economics, Econometrics and Finance#97
  10. #122Engineering#82
  11. #103Environmental Science#82
  12. #86Health Professions#90
  13. -Materials Science#80
  14. #81Medicine#124
  15. #80Psychology#78
  16. #102Social 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 Paraguay rankSri Lanka rank Paraguay top 10%Sri Lanka top 10% Paraguay worksSri Lanka works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #111 #87 3.3% 7.2% 420 1.7k
Arts and Humanities - #85 - 10.2% - 808
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology - #84 - 6.2% - 787
Business, Management and Accounting #100 #90 6.8% 4.9% 219 1.3k
Chemistry - #59 - 8.2% - 224
Computer Science #119 #90 5.0% 4.8% 351 1.8k
Decision Sciences - #67 - 4.3% - 404
Earth and Planetary Sciences - #60 - 7.7% - 463
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #100 #97 3.9% 5.6% 267 678
Engineering #122 #82 2.6% 6.0% 235 2.3k
Environmental Science #103 #82 4.6% 6.2% 311 1.6k
Health Professions #86 #90 6.0% 5.4% 442 624
Materials Science - #80 - 6.7% - 428
Medicine #81 #124 3.4% 4.3% 1.2k 3.8k
Psychology #80 #78 4.4% 4.7% 231 714
Social Sciences #102 #101 6.2% 7.2% 1.6k 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.

Paraguay

▲ 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. Epidemiology631▲ 2.3×135 topics
  2. Education529▲ 4.5×82 topics
  3. Public Health445▲ 4.5×63 topics
  4. Teacher Training396▲ 9.4×20 topics
  5. Innovation333▲ 4.7×46 topics
  6. Sustainability320▲ 1.91×84 topics
  7. Globalization310▲ 2.3×92 topics
  8. Educational Technology286▲ 3.5×35 topics
  9. Health Promotion274▲ 13×17 topics
  10. COVID-19266▲ 3.0×28 topics
  11. Small and Medium Enterprises261▲ 22×7 topics
  12. Digital Marketing258▲ 9.7×5 topics
  13. E-Learning256▲ 3.9×18 topics
  14. Mental Health250▲ 2.5×43 topics
  15. Distance Learning244▲ 10×9 topics
  16. Qualitative Research235▲ 4.0×26 topics
  17. Social Responsibility234▲ 15×7 topics
  18. Risk Factors231▲ 3.1×36 topics
  19. Economic Impact223▲ 6.1×9 topics
  20. Urban Development222▲ 9.2×12 topics
  21. Competitiveness222▲ 41×6 topics
  22. Knowledge Management221▲ 5.8×24 topics
  23. Inclusive Education220▲ 8.9×15 topics
  24. Innovation Ecosystems208▲ 30×2 topics
  25. Nutrition206▲ 6.8×14 topics
  26. Globalization Effects195▲ 41×2 topics
  27. Public Policy195▲ 6.0×18 topics
  28. Tourism Management194▲ 41×2 topics
  29. City Branding193▲ 45×1 topic
  30. Psychopharmacology Education193▲ 45×1 topic
  31. Pedagogy189▲ 5.5×16 topics
  32. Social Inequality182▲ 9.9×13 topics
  33. Social Impact180▲ 6.7×16 topics
  34. Healthcare Access178▲ 9.5×12 topics
  35. Curriculum Development177▲ 3.8×13 topics
  36. University Students154▲ 40×2 topics
  37. Organizational Culture147▲ 5.6×12 topics
  38. Latin America145▲ 11×22 topics
  39. Chronic Diseases143▲ 8.2×8 topics
  40. Educational Interventions132▲ 21×3 topics

Sri Lanka

▲ 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. Machine Learning1,193▲ 1.47×96 topics
  2. Epidemiology1,177▲ 1.21×138 topics
  3. Deep Learning1,168▲ 1.39×85 topics
  4. Sustainability1,018▲ 1.71×114 topics
  5. Climate Change964▲ 1.45×116 topics
  6. Environmental Impact722▲ 1.74×68 topics
  7. Globalization519◆ 1.08×127 topics
  8. Supply Chain Management468▲ 2.1×24 topics
  9. COVID-19467▲ 1.48×29 topics
  10. Neural Networks460▲ 1.22×40 topics
  11. Remote Sensing423▲ 1.42×36 topics
  12. Public Health409◆ 1.15×60 topics
  13. Renewable Energy399◆ 1.13×55 topics
  14. Antioxidant389▲ 2.3×51 topics
  15. Consumer Behavior368▲ 2.4×18 topics
  16. Risk Management365▲ 3.1×20 topics
  17. Pandemic361▲ 1.49×13 topics
  18. Healthcare336▲ 1.21×36 topics
  19. Economic Growth310▲ 1.56×35 topics
  20. Antioxidant Activity293▲ 1.93×31 topics
  21. Social Capital292▲ 2.3×20 topics
  22. Convolutional Neural Networks282▲ 1.59×14 topics
  23. Ecosystem Services274▲ 2.9×14 topics
  24. Genetic Diversity269▲ 2.5×22 topics
  25. Digital Transformation249▲ 1.89×23 topics
  26. Environmental Monitoring224▲ 2.4×15 topics
  27. Vaccine Development223▲ 3.6×11 topics
  28. Recycling221▲ 2.4×10 topics
  29. Waste Management217▲ 2.2×11 topics
  30. Intersectionality203▲ 4.4×13 topics
  31. Social Inequality201▲ 3.1×13 topics
  32. Antimicrobial200▲ 2.9×13 topics
  33. Agricultural Origins190▲ 24×1 topic
  34. Radiocarbon Dating190▲ 24×1 topic
  35. African Diaspora177▲ 19×4 topics
  36. Archaeology of Resistance174▲ 79×1 topic
  37. Black Feminist Theory174▲ 79×1 topic
  38. Food Supply Chain159▲ 5.8×2 topics
  39. business impact135▲ 6.2×1 topic
  40. 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 Paraguay every year since 1980.

still counting2.5k5k7.5kSri Lanka6,113 in 2025Paraguay1,700 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 counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Sri Lanka0.10% in 2025Paraguay0.029% 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%Sri Lanka6.4% in 2025Paraguay5.0% 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.

Paraguay 05 level0 Sri Lanka
  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, Paraguay or Sri Lanka?

Sri Lanka publishes 3.5× as much research as Paraguay in 2022-now (21k against 6k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Paraguay or Sri Lanka?

5.9% of Sri Lanka's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.7% for Paraguay.

Is Paraguay or Sri Lanka growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +21% against 2018-21 for Paraguay, and +16% for Sri Lanka.

Which has more open access research, Paraguay or Sri Lanka?

74% of Paraguay's research is free to read, against 60% of Sri Lanka's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Paraguay or Sri Lanka?

Paraguay 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%.

Paraguay

  1. 1Universidad Nacional de Asunción3.2% top 10% · 1.5k works
  2. 2Universidad Columbia del Paraguay2.7% top 10% · 405 works
  3. 3Universidad Nacional de Pilar5.4% top 10% · 403 works
  4. 4Universidad Americana5.7% top 10% · 289 works
  5. 5Universidad del Norte5.7% top 10% · 267 works
  6. 6Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción2.9% top 10% · 236 works

Sri Lanka

  1. 1University of Moratuwa5.1% top 10% · 2.2k works
  2. 2University of Sri Jayewardenepura5.5% top 10% · 1.9k works
  3. 3Department of Archaeology13.1% top 10% · 1.1k works
  4. 4University of Jaffna9.1% top 10% · 746 works
  5. 5University of Peradeniya5.7% top 10% · 1.9k works
  6. 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.

Paraguay

  1. 1 Helmut Alfredo Segovia Lohse #195,631 worldwide 6.6k citations · 62 works
  2. 2 Antonio L. Cubilla #205,334 worldwide 15k citations · 209 works
  3. 3 Carlos Rigor Neves #356,442 worldwide 127 citations · 46 works
  4. 4 Jeffrey J. Thompson #362,725 worldwide 1.6k citations · 68 works
  5. 5 Gabriel Ignacio Parra #400,046 worldwide 4.9k citations · 114 works

Sri Lanka

  1. 1 Samath Dhamminda Dharmaratne #11,594 worldwide 239k citations · 254 works
  2. 2 Meththika Suharshini Vithanage #12,535 worldwide 34k citations · 518 works
  3. 3 Nuwan Darshana Wickramasinghe #21,611 worldwide 40k citations · 179 works
  4. 4 Anushka Upamali Rajapaksha #43,312 worldwide 13k citations · 136 works
  5. 5 Devarajan Rathish #81,508 worldwide 12k citations · 102 works