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On research quality in 2022-now, Uganda ranks #47 in the world and Russia #49, of 189 countries. Russia stands higher in 18 of the 26 fields both publish in, Uganda in 8.

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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.

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?

Uganda 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.

Russia 11 level7 Uganda
  1. #49Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#47
  2. 0.34×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected1.05×
  3. 544kOutputfractional works, 2022-now13k
  4. 4.4%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited9.5%
  5. 7.0Citations per workall time, per fractional work14.5
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 41%Open accessof its works free to read, all time71%
  8. 14%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time41%
  9. -10%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?

Russia stands higher in 18 of 26 fields, Uganda in 8. Russia leads most in Computer Science (#46 against #66); Uganda leads most in Immunology and Microbiology (#31 against #58). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

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 Russia rankUganda rank Russia top 10%Uganda top 10% Russia worksUganda works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #57 #46 4.6% 10.4% 31k 1k
Arts and Humanities #37 - 7.1% - 14k -
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #52 #58 3.2% 9.6% 23k 384
Business, Management and Accounting #56 #52 5.6% 7.9% 16k 793
Chemical Engineering #35 - 2.4% - 2.5k -
Chemistry #37 - 2.7% - 14k -
Computer Science #46 #66 5.3% 9.8% 33k 458
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 #42 #58 5.9% 6.4% 16k 502
Energy #53 - 4.0% - 5.1k -
Engineering #43 #63 3.5% 11.9% 97k 529
Environmental Science #86 #64 3.6% 7.4% 25k 779
Health Professions #73 #35 3.3% 11.5% 5.8k 683
Immunology and Microbiology #58 #31 2.5% 12.1% 4k 293
Materials Science #30 - 2.9% - 28k -
Mathematics #13 - 5.7% - 10k -
Medicine #68 #35 3.2% 10.5% 72k 3.7k
Neuroscience #57 - 2.4% - 7k -
Nursing #51 #33 3.0% 9.3% 1.4k 222
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics #42 - 2.5% - 1.6k -
Physics and Astronomy #30 - 3.0% - 24k -
Psychology #64 #49 4.7% 8.7% 9.5k 477
Social Sciences #37 #54 7.8% 8.0% 80k 2.1k
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.

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

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?

Russia has out-published Uganda every year since 1980.

still counting100k200kRussia112k 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 counting2.0%4.0%Russia1.9% 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 counting5%10%15%Uganda9.8% 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.

Russia 03 level2 Uganda
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 0In the top 5000
  4. 0In the top 1,0001
  5. #51Elite 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, Russia or Uganda?

Russia publishes 42.4× as much research as Uganda in 2022-now (544k against 13k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Russia or Uganda?

9.5% of Uganda's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.4% for Russia.

Is Russia or Uganda growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +75% against 2018-21 for Uganda, and -10% for Russia.

Which has more open access research, Russia or Uganda?

71% of Uganda's research is free to read, against 41% of Russia's.

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

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

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

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.

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

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