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Qatar vs Russia

On research quality in 2022-now, Qatar ranks #46 in the world and Russia #49, of 189 countries. Qatar stands higher in 10 of the 26 fields both publish in, Russia in 16.

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Qatar

World rank, 2022-now
#46
#48 all time
Works, 2022-now
18k
fractional
Top-10% rate
15.0%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
55%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Microbiology, General Energy, Issues, ethics and legal aspects.

Russia

World rank, 2022-now
#49
#38 all time
Works, 2022-now
544k
fractional
Top-10% rate
4.4%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
41%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Nuclear Energy and Engineering, Fuel Technology, General Materials Science.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Qatar leads on 7 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, top-10% rate, citations per work, open access, international co-authorship and growth. Russia leads on 1 of 9 measures: output. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Qatar 71 level1 Russia
  1. #46Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#49
  2. 1.17×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.34×
  3. 18kOutputfractional works, 2022-now544k
  4. 15.0%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited4.4%
  5. 18.1Citations per workall time, per fractional work7.0
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 55%Open accessof its works free to read, all time41%
  8. 44%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time14%
  9. +25%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change-10%

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?

Qatar stands higher in 10 of 26 fields, Russia in 16. Russia leads most in Arts and Humanities (#37 against #70); Qatar leads most in Environmental Science (#47 against #86). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Qatar 1016 Russia
  1. #69Agricultural and Biological Sciences#57
  2. #70Arts and Humanities#37
  3. #49Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#52
  4. #49Business, Management and Accounting#56
  5. -Chemical Engineering#35
  6. -Chemistry#37
  7. #44Computer Science#46
  8. -Decision Sciences#43
  9. -Dentistry#55
  10. -Earth and Planetary Sciences#56
  11. #53Economics, Econometrics and Finance#42
  12. #37Energy#53
  13. #41Engineering#43
  14. #47Environmental Science#86
  15. #44Health Professions#73
  16. -Immunology and Microbiology#58
  17. #50Materials Science#30
  18. -Mathematics#13
  19. #36Medicine#68
  20. #39Neuroscience#57
  21. -Nursing#51
  22. -Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#42
  23. -Physics and Astronomy#30
  24. #48Psychology#64
  25. #48Social Sciences#37
  26. -Veterinary#27

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 Qatar rankRussia rank Qatar top 10%Russia top 10% Qatar worksRussia works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #69 #57 17.5% 4.6% 370 31k
Arts and Humanities #70 #37 16.9% 7.1% 245 14k
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #49 #52 12.8% 3.2% 854 23k
Business, Management and Accounting #49 #56 22.6% 5.6% 600 16k
Chemical Engineering - #35 - 2.4% - 2.5k
Chemistry - #37 - 2.7% - 14k
Computer Science #44 #46 18.5% 5.3% 1.4k 33k
Decision Sciences - #43 - 5.8% - 3.8k
Dentistry - #55 - 2.5% - 1.8k
Earth and Planetary Sciences - #56 - 3.1% - 19k
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #53 #42 18.9% 5.9% 414 16k
Energy #37 #53 16.0% 4.0% 335 5.1k
Engineering #41 #43 15.6% 3.5% 2.7k 97k
Environmental Science #47 #86 17.9% 3.6% 839 25k
Health Professions #44 #73 15.1% 3.3% 589 5.8k
Immunology and Microbiology - #58 - 2.5% - 4k
Materials Science #50 #30 13.7% 2.9% 469 28k
Mathematics - #13 - 5.7% - 10k
Medicine #36 #68 10.8% 3.2% 5.3k 72k
Neuroscience #39 #57 13.8% 2.4% 235 7k
Nursing - #51 - 3.0% - 1.4k
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics - #42 - 2.5% - 1.6k
Physics and Astronomy - #30 - 3.0% - 24k
Psychology #48 #64 15.4% 4.7% 538 9.5k
Social Sciences #48 #37 19.4% 7.8% 2k 80k
Veterinary - #27 - 2.4% - 426

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.

Qatar

▲ 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. Epidemiology1,225▲ 1.49×137 topics
  2. Machine Learning896▲ 1.31×94 topics
  3. Deep Learning792◆ 1.12×84 topics
  4. Sustainability571◆ 1.14×101 topics
  5. Renewable Energy557▲ 1.87×50 topics
  6. Inflammation538▲ 1.23×83 topics
  7. Healthcare412▲ 1.75×38 topics
  8. Cardiovascular Disease411▲ 1.75×39 topics
  9. Quality of Life389▲ 1.31×58 topics
  10. Environmental Impact386◆ 1.10×65 topics
  11. Treatment380▲ 1.52×52 topics
  12. COVID-19377▲ 1.41×34 topics
  13. Public Health361▲ 1.20×66 topics
  14. Oxidative Stress348◆ 1.03×63 topics
  15. Diagnosis344▲ 1.79×41 topics
  16. Mental Health319◆ 1.08×47 topics
  17. Metabolic Syndrome316▲ 1.90×24 topics
  18. Risk Factors316▲ 1.40×37 topics
  19. Neural Networks315◆ 0.99×41 topics
  20. Pandemic306▲ 1.50×14 topics
  21. Supply Chain Management286▲ 1.55×25 topics
  22. Depression283▲ 1.57×26 topics
  23. Management257▲ 1.57×38 topics
  24. Energy Efficiency250▲ 1.32×39 topics
  25. Security233▲ 1.69×27 topics
  26. Mortality230▲ 1.97×13 topics
  27. Risk Management221▲ 2.3×18 topics
  28. Complications208▲ 2.0×17 topics
  29. Diabetes195▲ 1.89×22 topics
  30. SARS-CoV-2186▲ 3.0×6 topics
  31. Smart Grid185▲ 2.5×10 topics
  32. Social Networks181▲ 3.2×12 topics
  33. Renewable Energy Integration174▲ 2.6×5 topics
  34. Middle East154▲ 12×2 topics
  35. ACE2 Receptor147▲ 3.2×3 topics
  36. Human Resource Management145▲ 4.6×6 topics
  37. Localization140▲ 5.7×4 topics
  38. Guanxi127▲ 29×1 topic
  39. Wasta127▲ 29×1 topic
  40. Genocide103▲ 9.5×3 topics

Russia

▲ 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. Sustainable Development37k▲ 3.9×113 topics
  2. Climate Change33k▲ 2.0×132 topics
  3. Digital Transformation24k▲ 7.3×32 topics
  4. Innovation24k▲ 3.8×91 topics
  5. Artificial Intelligence23k▲ 2.7×67 topics
  6. Globalization23k▲ 1.94×186 topics
  7. Sustainability18k▲ 1.20×140 topics
  8. Energy Efficiency16k▲ 3.0×45 topics
  9. Regional Development16k▲ 8.0×21 topics
  10. Digital Economy15k▲ 12×20 topics
  11. Economic Development15k▲ 3.1×57 topics
  12. Food Security13k▲ 4.0×25 topics
  13. Educational Technology13k▲ 1.80×48 topics
  14. E-Learning11k▲ 1.97×27 topics
  15. Legal Regulation11k▲ 8.3×8 topics
  16. Digitalization11k▲ 9.0×16 topics
  17. Language11k▲ 7.1×15 topics
  18. Pedagogy9,445▲ 3.1×30 topics
  19. Economic Security8,448▲ 6.6×7 topics
  20. Migration8,418▲ 4.1×35 topics
  21. Ethnicity8,272▲ 3.7×25 topics
  22. International Relations7,912▲ 5.4×31 topics
  23. Global Economy7,846▲ 10×7 topics
  24. Geopolitics7,489▲ 8.2×12 topics
  25. Media7,153▲ 7.9×19 topics
  26. Cyber-Physical Systems6,922▲ 4.4×9 topics
  27. Arctic6,854▲ 10×4 topics
  28. Blockchain Technology6,746▲ 20×4 topics
  29. Linguistics6,575▲ 6.9×9 topics
  30. Youth6,520▲ 7.8×10 topics
  31. Geographical Analysis6,050▲ 24×2 topics
  32. Information Security6,016▲ 10×4 topics
  33. Digital Technologies5,999▲ 7.4×6 topics
  34. Knowledge Clusters5,806▲ 25×2 topics
  35. Agricultural Development5,664▲ 6.2×7 topics
  36. Macroeconomic Assessment5,469▲ 25×1 topic
  37. Russian Economy5,469▲ 25×1 topic
  38. Phraseology5,279▲ 12×3 topics
  39. Spatial Patterns5,109▲ 9.1×4 topics
  40. Cultural Communication4,923▲ 24×1 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?

Russia has out-published Qatar every year since 1980.

still counting100k200kRussia112k in 2025Qatar5,266 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 counting2.0%4.0%Russia1.9% in 2025Qatar0.090% 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 counting10%20%Qatar13.9% in 2025Russia4.7% 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.

Qatar 23 level0 Russia
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 0In the top 5000
  4. 2In the top 1,0000
  5. #36Elite 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, Qatar or Russia?

Russia publishes 30.1× as much research as Qatar in 2022-now (544k against 18k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Qatar or Russia?

15.0% of Qatar's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.4% for Russia.

Is Qatar or Russia growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +25% against 2018-21 for Qatar, and -10% for Russia.

Which has more open access research, Qatar or Russia?

55% of Qatar's research is free to read, against 41% of Russia's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Qatar or Russia?

Qatar holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Russia 0; in the top 1,000 it is 2 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%.

Qatar

  1. 1Qatar University19.2% top 10% · 6k works
  2. 2Hamad bin Khalifa University18.5% top 10% · 2.4k works
  3. 3Qatar Foundation22.2% top 10% · 667 works
  4. 4Primary Health Care6.4% top 10% · 961 works
  5. 5Qatar Science and Technology Park20.0% top 10% · 359 works
  6. 6Doha Institute for Graduate Studies24.6% top 10% · 321 works

Russia

  1. 1Russian Academy of Sciences4.1% top 10% · 132k works
  2. 2National Research University Higher School of Economics8.0% top 10% · 8.5k works
  3. 3Financial University9.5% top 10% · 4.6k works
  4. 4ITMO University4.7% top 10% · 3.5k works
  5. 5Ural State University of Economics4.1% top 10% · 951 works
  6. 6Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology8.6% top 10% · 1.6k 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.

Qatar

  1. 1 Mowafa Said Househ #3,730 worldwide 72k citations · 395 works
  2. 2 Alaa Ali Abd-Alrazaq #3,958 worldwide 8.1k citations · 190 works
  3. 3 Hamzeh Adel Al Amosh #7,255 worldwide 2.4k citations · 81 works
  4. 4 Laith Jamal Abu-Raddad #12,545 worldwide 139k citations · 614 works
  5. 5 Riyazuddin Mohammad Shaik #14,987 worldwide 5.8k citations · 105 works

Russia

  1. 1 S. L. Danilishin #1,207 worldwide 94k citations · 319 works
  2. 2 A. Khanzadeev #1,297 worldwide 45k citations · 397 works
  3. 3 V. Barret #2,233 worldwide 23k citations · 184 works
  4. 4 I. Novikov #4,043 worldwide 38k citations · 135 works
  5. 5 V. Punin #4,147 worldwide 27k citations · 248 works