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Romania vs South Africa

On research quality in 2022-now, South Africa ranks #26 in the world and Romania #29, of 189 countries. Romania stands higher in 9 of the 25 fields both publish in, South Africa in 16.

Romania

World rank, 2022-now
#29
#48 all time
Works, 2022-now
85k
fractional
Top-10% rate
15.8%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
58%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: General Energy, Orthodontics, Music.

South Africa

World rank, 2022-now
#26
#26 all time
Works, 2022-now
113k
fractional
Top-10% rate
21.5%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
49%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Archeology, Religious studies, Research and Theory.

Who leads in each field?

Romania stands higher in 9 of 25 fields, South Africa in 16. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Romania 916 South Africa
  1. #42Agricultural and Biological Sciences#18
  2. #47Arts and Humanities#8
  3. #31Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#35
  4. #51Business, Management and Accounting#29
  5. #33Chemical Engineering#39
  6. #35Chemistry#28
  7. #48Computer Science#35
  8. #43Decision Sciences#26
  9. #11Dentistry#48
  10. #37Earth and Planetary Sciences#27
  11. #47Economics, Econometrics and Finance#11
  12. #43Energy#36
  13. #49Engineering#38
  14. #35Environmental Science#29
  15. #36Health Professions#32
  16. #22Immunology and Microbiology#34
  17. #40Materials Science#28
  18. #19Mathematics#30
  19. #26Medicine#32
  20. #33Neuroscience#42
  21. #15Nursing#50
  22. #21Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#24
  23. #45Physics and Astronomy#36
  24. #36Psychology#24
  25. #56Social Sciences#18

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.

How has their output grown?

20k40kSouth Africa31k in 2025Romania23k in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works per year. The latest, partial year is left off.

Which publishes more research, Romania or South Africa?

South Africa publishes 1.3× as much research as Romania in 2022-now (113k against 85k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Romania or South Africa?

21.5% of South Africa's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 15.8% for Romania.

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%.

Romania

  1. 1University of Oradea20.9% top 10% · 1.8k works
  2. 2"Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati12.4% top 10% · 2.6k works
  3. 3Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy21.3% top 10% · 3.2k works
  4. 4Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu18.0% top 10% · 1.8k works
  5. 5Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava14.1% top 10% · 1.7k works
  6. 6University of Bucharest14.7% top 10% · 4k works

South Africa

  1. 1University of Johannesburg26.4% top 10% · 13k works
  2. 2University of South Africa23.7% top 10% · 9k works
  3. 3University of the Witwatersrand21.6% top 10% · 8.5k works
  4. 4University of Cape Town21.4% top 10% · 6.6k works
  5. 5Stellenbosch University19.5% top 10% · 7.7k works
  6. 6University of KwaZulu-Natal21.6% top 10% · 7.5k 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, 16.5% (why not 10%): 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.

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