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Puerto Rico vs Tanzania

On research quality in 2022-now, Puerto Rico ranks #62 in the world and Tanzania #64, of 189 countries. Puerto Rico stands higher in 8 of the 15 fields both publish in, Tanzania in 7.

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Puerto Rico

World rank, 2022-now
#62
#64 all time
Works, 2022-now
7.4k
fractional
Top-10% rate
7.8%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
44%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Microbiology, General Psychology, Horticulture.

Tanzania

World rank, 2022-now
#64
#74 all time
Works, 2022-now
17k
fractional
Top-10% rate
7.7%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
69%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Library and Information Sciences, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Parasitology.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Tanzania leads on 4 of 9 measures: citation excellence for its fields, output, open access and growth. Puerto Rico leads on 3 of 9 measures: research quality, citations per work and international co-authorship. The two are level on top-10% rate and institutions in the world top 100.

Puerto Rico 32 level4 Tanzania
  1. #62Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#64
  2. 0.71×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.90×
  3. 7.4kOutputfractional works, 2022-now17k
  4. 7.8%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited7.7%
  5. 15.2Citations per workall time, per fractional work14.6
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 44%Open accessof its works free to read, all time69%
  8. 39%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time30%
  9. +3%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+101%

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?

Puerto Rico stands higher in 8 of 15 fields, Tanzania in 7. Puerto Rico leads most in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (#41 against #63); Tanzania leads most in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#50 against #81). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Puerto Rico 87 Tanzania
  1. #81Agricultural and Biological Sciences#50
  2. #62Arts and Humanities#65
  3. #41Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#63
  4. -Business, Management and Accounting#59
  5. #67Computer Science#78
  6. -Decision Sciences#51
  7. -Economics, Econometrics and Finance#62
  8. #57Engineering#84
  9. #63Environmental Science#66
  10. #49Health Professions#50
  11. -Immunology and Microbiology#41
  12. #52Medicine#49
  13. -Nursing#44
  14. #53Psychology#67
  15. #64Social Sciences#66

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 Puerto Rico rankTanzania rank Puerto Rico top 10%Tanzania top 10% Puerto Rico worksTanzania works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #81 #50 7.2% 9.3% 314 1.8k
Arts and Humanities #62 #65 8.7% 9.3% 251 341
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #41 #63 9.1% 7.8% 634 451
Business, Management and Accounting - #59 - 7.3% - 1.4k
Computer Science #67 #78 5.7% 7.5% 294 773
Decision Sciences - #51 - 3.7% - 353
Economics, Econometrics and Finance - #62 - 6.2% - 768
Engineering #57 #84 7.2% 6.5% 560 964
Environmental Science #63 #66 6.7% 6.8% 361 1.4k
Health Professions #49 #50 10.5% 10.9% 256 630
Immunology and Microbiology - #41 - 10.6% - 256
Medicine #52 #49 7.2% 8.1% 2.1k 3.1k
Nursing - #44 - 8.3% - 220
Psychology #53 #67 5.4% 6.5% 318 434
Social Sciences #64 #66 8.9% 7.4% 1k 3.4k

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.

Puerto Rico

▲ 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. Epidemiology612▲ 1.78×138 topics
  2. Education265▲ 1.78×109 topics
  3. Climate Change257◆ 1.09×104 topics
  4. Inflammation234▲ 1.27×83 topics
  5. Mental Health222▲ 1.79×45 topics
  6. Public Health220▲ 1.75×70 topics
  7. Globalization209▲ 1.23×131 topics
  8. Sustainability206◆ 0.98×103 topics
  9. Quality of Life203▲ 1.63×60 topics
  10. Cancer185▲ 1.59×57 topics
  11. COVID-19172▲ 1.54×31 topics
  12. Risk Factors166▲ 1.74×37 topics
  13. Treatment161▲ 1.53×52 topics
  14. Oxidative Stress158◆ 1.11×62 topics
  15. Innovation142▲ 1.59×58 topics
  16. Diagnosis142▲ 1.76×41 topics
  17. Depression142▲ 1.86×26 topics
  18. Educational Technology130▲ 1.28×40 topics
  19. Cardiovascular Disease119▲ 1.20×38 topics
  20. Healthcare118▲ 1.20×35 topics
  21. Identity117▲ 1.87×60 topics
  22. Gender110▲ 2.4×43 topics
  23. Chemotherapy110▲ 1.80×25 topics
  24. E-Learning110▲ 1.32×23 topics
  25. Immunotherapy110▲ 1.76×19 topics
  26. Metabolic Syndrome105▲ 1.50×24 topics
  27. Genetics105▲ 1.72×27 topics
  28. Teacher Training95▲ 1.79×23 topics
  29. Global Burden94▲ 1.99×12 topics
  30. Literature91▲ 1.93×43 topics
  31. Distance Learning86▲ 2.9×12 topics
  32. Health Promotion84▲ 3.1×17 topics
  33. Latin America84▲ 5.1×22 topics
  34. Pedagogy84▲ 1.93×25 topics
  35. Colonialism83▲ 2.0×40 topics
  36. Resilience83▲ 1.95×17 topics
  37. Genetic Mutations82▲ 2.2×23 topics
  38. Cancer Incidence63▲ 5.3×4 topics
  39. Human Papillomavirus51▲ 4.8×3 topics
  40. Virtual Teaching41▲ 8.8×1 topic

Tanzania

▲ 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. Epidemiology1,175▲ 1.47×137 topics
  2. Climate Change1,053▲ 1.93×111 topics
  3. Sustainability1,002▲ 2.0×102 topics
  4. Globalization626▲ 1.58×121 topics
  5. Environmental Impact569▲ 1.66×66 topics
  6. Sustainable Development542▲ 1.72×94 topics
  7. Education539▲ 1.56×102 topics
  8. Social Capital536▲ 5.1×20 topics
  9. Poverty Reduction482▲ 18×6 topics
  10. Supply Chain Management418▲ 2.3×25 topics
  11. Economic Development413▲ 2.6×37 topics
  12. Sustainable Agriculture403▲ 6.5×16 topics
  13. Smallholder Farmers396▲ 9.3×6 topics
  14. Rural Development392▲ 5.7×18 topics
  15. Risk Management370▲ 3.9×16 topics
  16. Gender Equality364▲ 6.4×16 topics
  17. Maternal Mortality351▲ 7.8×5 topics
  18. Community Health Workers335▲ 19×2 topics
  19. Food Security334▲ 3.1×23 topics
  20. Social Networks325▲ 6.0×10 topics
  21. Gender Inequality310▲ 11×7 topics
  22. Technology Integration307▲ 4.8×11 topics
  23. Development289▲ 4.0×21 topics
  24. Health Inequalities284▲ 12×5 topics
  25. Socio-economic Factors278▲ 12×3 topics
  26. Technology Adoption276▲ 7.4×6 topics
  27. Adaptation273▲ 4.5×14 topics
  28. Child Mortality272▲ 19×1 topic
  29. Health Systems272▲ 19×1 topic
  30. Antiretroviral Therapy235▲ 7.2×6 topics
  31. Agricultural Innovation233▲ 25×2 topics
  32. Livelihood Diversification229▲ 36×1 topic
  33. Market Participation229▲ 36×1 topic
  34. Empowerment222▲ 11×6 topics
  35. Primary Education218▲ 27×2 topics
  36. Conditional Cash Transfers218▲ 31×1 topic
  37. School Subsidies218▲ 31×1 topic
  38. Poverty Alleviation215▲ 11×3 topics
  39. Financial Inclusion209▲ 20×1 topic
  40. Microfinance209▲ 20×1 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?

Tanzania has out-published Puerto Rico every year since 2018, when it overtook it.

still counting2k4k6kTanzania5,567 in 2025Puerto Rico2,147 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%Tanzania0.095% in 2025Puerto Rico0.036% 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%Tanzania8.0% in 2025Puerto Rico7.9% 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.

Puerto Rico 23 level0 Tanzania
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 0In the top 5000
  4. 1In the top 1,0000
  5. #40Elite 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, Puerto Rico or Tanzania?

Tanzania publishes 2.3× as much research as Puerto Rico in 2022-now (17k against 7.4k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Puerto Rico or Tanzania?

7.8% of Puerto Rico's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 7.7% for Tanzania.

Is Puerto Rico or Tanzania growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +101% against 2018-21 for Tanzania, and +3% for Puerto Rico.

Which has more open access research, Puerto Rico or Tanzania?

69% of Tanzania's research is free to read, against 44% of Puerto Rico's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Puerto Rico or Tanzania?

Puerto Rico holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Tanzania 0; in the top 1,000 it is 1 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%.

Puerto Rico

  1. 1National University College17.6% top 10% · 927 works
  2. 2Universidad Metropolitana15.8% top 10% · 332 works
  3. 3Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico7.6% top 10% · 712 works
  4. 4University of Puerto Rico System7.3% top 10% · 1k works
  5. 5University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras5.9% top 10% · 577 works
  6. 6Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico3.7% top 10% · 338 works

Tanzania

  1. 1University of Dar es Salaam7.5% top 10% · 2.6k works
  2. 2The University of Dodoma12.5% top 10% · 1.8k works
  3. 3Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences8.3% top 10% · 928 works
  4. 4Mzumbe University8.5% top 10% · 684 works
  5. 5Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology11.1% top 10% · 566 works
  6. 6Mbeya University of Science and Technology7.2% top 10% · 439 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.

Puerto Rico

  1. 1 Justin Paul #306 worldwide 36k citations · 297 works
  2. 2 T. Mitchell Aide #13,830 worldwide 21k citations · 184 works
  3. 3 Jess K. Zimmerman #21,938 worldwide 19k citations · 279 works
  4. 4 Zhongfang Chen #23,734 worldwide 43k citations · 462 works
  5. 5 Gregory J. Quirk #27,119 worldwide 32k citations · 173 works

Tanzania

  1. 1 Andrew R. Williamson #1,536 worldwide 85k citations · 325 works
  2. 2 Audax Z. P. Mabulla #25,355 worldwide 9.3k citations · 201 works
  3. 3 Susan F. Rumisha #33,455 worldwide 37k citations · 167 works
  4. 4 Gerry F. Killeen #34,603 worldwide 16k citations · 207 works
  5. 5 Fredros O. Okumu #46,417 worldwide 6.3k citations · 186 works