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Qatar vs Uganda

On research quality in 2022-now, Qatar ranks #46 in the world and Uganda #47, of 189 countries. Qatar stands higher in 12 of the 17 fields both publish in, Uganda in 5.

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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.

Uganda

World rank, 2022-now
#47
#49 all time
Works, 2022-now
13k
fractional
Top-10% rate
9.5%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
71%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Virology, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Infectious Diseases.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Qatar leads on 6 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, citations per work and international co-authorship. Uganda leads on 2 of 9 measures: open access and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Qatar 61 level2 Uganda
  1. #46Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#47
  2. 1.17×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected1.05×
  3. 18kOutputfractional works, 2022-now13k
  4. 15.0%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited9.5%
  5. 18.1Citations per workall time, per fractional work14.5
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 55%Open accessof its works free to read, all time71%
  8. 44%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time41%
  9. +25%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+75%

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 12 of 17 fields, Uganda in 5. Qatar leads most in Computer Science (#44 against #66); Uganda leads most in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#46 against #69). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Qatar 125 Uganda
  1. #69Agricultural and Biological Sciences#46
  2. #70Arts and Humanities-
  3. #49Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#58
  4. #49Business, Management and Accounting#52
  5. #44Computer Science#66
  6. #53Economics, Econometrics and Finance#58
  7. #37Energy-
  8. #41Engineering#63
  9. #47Environmental Science#64
  10. #44Health Professions#35
  11. -Immunology and Microbiology#31
  12. #50Materials Science-
  13. #36Medicine#35
  14. #39Neuroscience-
  15. -Nursing#33
  16. #48Psychology#49
  17. #48Social Sciences#54

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 rankUganda rank Qatar top 10%Uganda top 10% Qatar worksUganda works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #69 #46 17.5% 10.4% 370 1k
Arts and Humanities #70 - 16.9% - 245 -
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #49 #58 12.8% 9.6% 854 384
Business, Management and Accounting #49 #52 22.6% 7.9% 600 793
Computer Science #44 #66 18.5% 9.8% 1.4k 458
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #53 #58 18.9% 6.4% 414 502
Energy #37 - 16.0% - 335 -
Engineering #41 #63 15.6% 11.9% 2.7k 529
Environmental Science #47 #64 17.9% 7.4% 839 779
Health Professions #44 #35 15.1% 11.5% 589 683
Immunology and Microbiology - #31 - 12.1% - 293
Materials Science #50 - 13.7% - 469 -
Medicine #36 #35 10.8% 10.5% 5.3k 3.7k
Neuroscience #39 - 13.8% - 235 -
Nursing - #33 - 9.3% - 222
Psychology #48 #49 15.4% 8.7% 538 477
Social Sciences #48 #54 19.4% 8.0% 2k 2.1k

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

Uganda

▲ 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. Epidemiology1,464▲ 2.4×135 topics
  2. Sustainability576▲ 1.52×105 topics
  3. Climate Change570▲ 1.35×104 topics
  4. Antiretroviral Therapy528▲ 21×6 topics
  5. Public Health472▲ 2.1×63 topics
  6. Globalization448▲ 1.47×113 topics
  7. Maternal Mortality443▲ 13×5 topics
  8. Vaccine430▲ 6.9×11 topics
  9. Immune Response417▲ 4.7×23 topics
  10. Risk Factors396▲ 2.3×37 topics
  11. Mental Health380▲ 1.71×45 topics
  12. Community Health Workers376▲ 27×2 topics
  13. Health Inequalities348▲ 18×5 topics
  14. Global Burden341▲ 4.0×12 topics
  15. Socio-economic Factors339▲ 20×3 topics
  16. Child Mortality336▲ 30×1 topic
  17. Health Systems336▲ 30×1 topic
  18. Diagnosis323▲ 2.2×40 topics
  19. Mortality Rates307▲ 21×2 topics
  20. Drug Resistance293▲ 6.5×9 topics
  21. HIV Transmission287▲ 24×2 topics
  22. Social Capital277▲ 3.4×19 topics
  23. Viral Load273▲ 23×2 topics
  24. Genetic Diversity272▲ 4.0×21 topics
  25. Poverty Reduction271▲ 13×6 topics
  26. Child Development268▲ 4.2×8 topics
  27. Pathogenesis263▲ 3.3×24 topics
  28. Preexposure Prophylaxis259▲ 34×1 topic
  29. Stigma and Discrimination259▲ 34×1 topic
  30. Vaccine Development259▲ 6.5×11 topics
  31. Global Burden of Disease229▲ 6.0×4 topics
  32. Smallholder Farmers196▲ 6.0×6 topics
  33. HIV Infection194▲ 12×4 topics
  34. Gender Inequality191▲ 8.9×6 topics
  35. Maternal and Child Undernutrition189▲ 15×1 topic
  36. Water Sanitation Hygiene189▲ 15×1 topic
  37. HIV Prevention179▲ 20×2 topics
  38. Global Health174▲ 7.2×8 topics
  39. HIV173▲ 13×4 topics
  40. Adolescent Health170▲ 13×3 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?

Qatar has out-published Uganda every year since 2010, when it overtook it.

still counting2k4k6kQatar5,266 in 2025Uganda4,088 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%Qatar0.090% in 2025Uganda0.069% 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 2025Uganda9.8% 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 Uganda
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 0In the top 5000
  4. 2In the top 1,0001
  5. #36Elite capacityrank among 204 countries#44

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 Uganda?

Qatar publishes 1.4× as much research as Uganda in 2022-now (18k against 13k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Qatar or Uganda?

15.0% of Qatar's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 9.5% for Uganda.

Is Qatar or Uganda growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +75% against 2018-21 for Uganda, and +25% for Qatar.

Which has more open access research, Qatar or Uganda?

71% of Uganda's research is free to read, against 55% of Qatar's.

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

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

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

Uganda

  1. 1Makerere University9.6% top 10% · 3.7k works
  2. 2Kampala International University12.9% top 10% · 1.4k works
  3. 3Mbarara University of Science and Technology9.8% top 10% · 741 works
  4. 4Kyambogo University6.5% top 10% · 574 works
  5. 5Gulu University9.0% top 10% · 426 works
  6. 6Kabale University8.8% top 10% · 337 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

Uganda

  1. 1 Mahadih Kyambade #22,796 worldwide 818 citations · 67 works
  2. 2 Afulah Namatovu #24,940 worldwide 658 citations · 49 works
  3. 3 Adoke Yeka #39,181 worldwide 5.6k citations · 116 works
  4. 4 Jimmy Opigo #56,186 worldwide 2.3k citations · 144 works
  5. 5 Moses Robert Kamya #68,808 worldwide 28k citations · 864 works