Senegal vs Tunisia
On research quality in 2022-now, Tunisia ranks #139 in the world and Senegal #151, of 189 countries. Senegal stands higher in 3 of the 22 fields both publish in, Tunisia in 19.
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Senegal
- World rank, 2022-now
- #151
- #136 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 5.3k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 4.3%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 62%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Forestry, Horticulture, Microbiology.
Tunisia
- World rank, 2022-now
- #139
- #115 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 38k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 5.9%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 33%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Algebra and Number Theory, Mathematical Physics, Applied Mathematics.
Who leads, measure by measure?
Tunisia leads on 6 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, citations per work and international co-authorship. Senegal leads on 2 of 9 measures: open access and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.
- #151Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#139
- 0.40×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.54×
- 5.3kOutputfractional works, 2022-now38k
- 4.3%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited5.9%
- 6.7Citations per workall time, per fractional work10.1
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 62%Open accessof its works free to read, all time33%
- 30%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time33%
- +15%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+7%
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?
Senegal stands higher in 3 of 22 fields, Tunisia in 19. Tunisia leads most in Engineering (#93 against #124); Senegal leads most in Social Sciences (#122 against #146). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- #97Agricultural and Biological Sciences#100
- -Arts and Humanities#99
- -Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#92
- -Business, Management and Accounting#94
- -Chemistry#65
- #121Computer Science#91
- -Decision Sciences#73
- -Dentistry#58
- -Earth and Planetary Sciences#68
- -Economics, Econometrics and Finance#80
- -Energy#63
- #124Engineering#93
- #106Environmental Science#92
- -Health Professions#95
- -Immunology and Microbiology#70
- -Materials Science#75
- -Mathematics#69
- #118Medicine#139
- -Neuroscience#64
- -Physics and Astronomy#72
- -Psychology#98
- #122Social Sciences#146
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 | Senegal rank | Tunisia rank | Senegal top 10% | Tunisia top 10% | Senegal works | Tunisia works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | #97 | #100 | 5.5% | 8.8% | 657 | 2.3k |
| Arts and Humanities | - | #99 | - | 8.1% | - | 392 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | - | #92 | - | 4.3% | - | 1.6k |
| Business, Management and Accounting | - | #94 | - | 13.2% | - | 1.3k |
| Chemistry | - | #65 | - | 7.1% | - | 565 |
| Computer Science | #121 | #91 | 3.1% | 7.6% | 314 | 3.4k |
| Decision Sciences | - | #73 | - | 8.6% | - | 306 |
| Dentistry | - | #58 | - | 3.9% | - | 201 |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | - | #68 | - | 4.8% | - | 531 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | - | #80 | - | 12.7% | - | 1.2k |
| Energy | - | #63 | - | 7.0% | - | 511 |
| Engineering | #124 | #93 | 2.8% | 5.8% | 419 | 5.7k |
| Environmental Science | #106 | #92 | 3.8% | 6.9% | 310 | 1.6k |
| Health Professions | - | #95 | - | 5.6% | - | 934 |
| Immunology and Microbiology | - | #70 | - | 3.2% | - | 340 |
| Materials Science | - | #75 | - | 6.4% | - | 1.4k |
| Mathematics | - | #69 | - | 8.1% | - | 1.1k |
| Medicine | #118 | #139 | 2.6% | 2.9% | 1.4k | 11k |
| Neuroscience | - | #64 | - | 5.2% | - | 426 |
| Physics and Astronomy | - | #72 | - | 6.1% | - | 409 |
| Psychology | - | #98 | - | 5.8% | - | 903 |
| Social Sciences | #122 | #146 | 8.4% | 7.5% | 643 | 2k |
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.
Senegal
- Political Transition
- Proximity and Innovation
- Citizen Participation
- Tree Domestication
- Rural Livelihoods
- Vaccine
- Ethnicity
- Agroforestry
- Genetic Diversity
- Local Development
- Colonialism
- Community Engagement
- Pathogenesis
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Public Health
- Multifunctionality
- Agricultural Development
- Agroecology
- Smallholder Farmers
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Adaptation
- Diversity
- Livestock Farming
- Work Organization
- Healthcare
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Social Justice
- Global Burden
- Territorial Governance
- Vaccine Development
- Governance
- Climate Resilience
- Nutritional Value
- Social Movements
- Indigenous Fruits
- Decentralization
- Environmental Participation
- Africa
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology498▲ 2.0×129 topics
- Climate Change426▲ 2.5×90 topics
- Sustainability328▲ 2.2×77 topics
- Smallholder Farmers307▲ 24×6 topics
- Adaptation238▲ 13×13 topics
- Agroecology208▲ 24×5 topics
- Diversity207▲ 19×10 topics
- Agricultural Development202▲ 22×5 topics
- Livestock Farming201▲ 55×2 topics
- Multifunctionality201▲ 70×2 topics
- Work Organization199▲ 84×1 topic
- Public Health191▲ 2.1×56 topics
- Healthcare160▲ 2.3×27 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture126▲ 6.6×12 topics
- Biodiversity Conservation113▲ 4.9×14 topics
- Pathogenesis112▲ 3.6×23 topics
- Social Justice112▲ 3.0×31 topics
- Community Engagement110▲ 5.5×15 topics
- Global Burden110▲ 3.3×12 topics
- Colonialism108▲ 3.7×34 topics
- Territorial Governance105▲ 15×4 topics
- Local Development105▲ 16×2 topics
- Vaccine Development100▲ 6.4×11 topics
- Genetic Diversity99▲ 3.7×19 topics
- Governance98▲ 4.9×11 topics
- Agroforestry96▲ 23×3 topics
- Climate Resilience95▲ 26×2 topics
- Ethnicity94▲ 4.1×13 topics
- Nutritional Value92▲ 13×4 topics
- Vaccine90▲ 3.7×11 topics
- Social Movements82▲ 4.5×18 topics
- Rural Livelihoods82▲ 25×2 topics
- Indigenous Fruits82▲ 58×1 topic
- Tree Domestication82▲ 58×1 topic
- Decentralization77▲ 6.0×4 topics
- Citizen Participation74▲ 10×2 topics
- Environmental Participation73▲ 17×1 topic
- Proximity and Innovation73▲ 17×1 topic
- Africa65▲ 26×3 topics
- Political Transition62▲ 20×3 topics
Tunisia
- Warfare
- Transport Policy
- Phenolic Compounds
- Malay Language
- Immunosuppressive Therapy
- Monetary Policy
- Global Burden
- Surgical Management
- Chemotherapy
- Antioxidant Activity
- Convolutional Neural Networks
- Risk Factors
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Quality of Life
- Environmental Impact
- Sustainability
- Renewable Energy
- Inflammation
- Treatment
- Deep Learning
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Diagnosis
- Climate Change
- Neural Networks
- Oxidative Stress
- Management
- Healthcare
- Genetics
- Autoantibodies
- Corporate Governance
- Economic Growth
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Pathogenesis
- Classification
- Islam
- Social Influence
- Sharia Law
- Public Oversight
- Air Force
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology2,800▲ 1.62×140 topics
- Deep Learning2,110▲ 1.41×84 topics
- Machine Learning1,653◆ 1.14×95 topics
- Treatment1,221▲ 2.3×52 topics
- Diagnosis1,199▲ 3.0×41 topics
- Inflammation1,097▲ 1.19×83 topics
- Climate Change1,054◆ 0.89×118 topics
- Renewable Energy956▲ 1.52×58 topics
- Neural Networks818▲ 1.22×42 topics
- Sustainability791▼ 0.74×113 topics
- Oxidative Stress785◆ 1.10×62 topics
- Environmental Impact738◆ 1.00×71 topics
- Management681▲ 1.96×39 topics
- Quality of Life650◆ 1.03×59 topics
- Healthcare609▲ 1.23×36 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease592▲ 1.19×39 topics
- Genetics548▲ 1.78×27 topics
- Risk Factors548◆ 1.14×37 topics
- Autoantibodies535▲ 5.2×8 topics
- Convolutional Neural Networks522▲ 1.65×14 topics
- Corporate Governance495▲ 1.55×29 topics
- Antioxidant Activity478▲ 1.77×32 topics
- Economic Growth477▲ 1.35×33 topics
- Chemotherapy463▲ 1.50×25 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines460▲ 1.92×14 topics
- Surgical Management449▲ 2.5×20 topics
- Pathogenesis421▲ 1.89×24 topics
- Global Burden414▲ 1.74×12 topics
- Classification383▲ 1.93×13 topics
- Monetary Policy380▲ 3.7×11 topics
- Islam369▲ 4.1×5 topics
- Immunosuppressive Therapy313▲ 3.8×8 topics
- Social Influence307▲ 3.3×3 topics
- Malay Language282▲ 4.6×1 topic
- Sharia Law282▲ 4.5×1 topic
- Phenolic Compounds277▲ 3.5×9 topics
- Public Oversight239▲ 4.5×1 topic
- Transport Policy239▲ 4.5×1 topic
- Air Force238▲ 4.6×1 topic
- Warfare238▲ 4.6×1 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?
Tunisia has out-published Senegal every year since 1980.
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.
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%).
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.
- 0In the world top 500
- 0In the top 1000
- 0In the top 5000
- 0In the top 1,0000
- #51Elite 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, Senegal or Tunisia?
Tunisia publishes 7.3× as much research as Senegal in 2022-now (38k against 5.3k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Senegal or Tunisia?
5.9% of Tunisia's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 4.3% for Senegal.
Is Senegal or Tunisia growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +15% against 2018-21 for Senegal, and +7% for Tunisia.
Which has more open access research, Senegal or Tunisia?
62% of Senegal's research is free to read, against 33% of Tunisia's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Senegal or Tunisia?
Senegal holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Tunisia 0; in the top 1,000 it is 0 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%.
Senegal
- 1Université Gaston Berger4.4% top 10% · 520 works
- 2Cheikh Anta Diop University3.6% top 10% · 2.2k works
- 3Ziguinchor University5.2% top 10% · 302 works
- 4Université Alioune Diop de Bambey1.8% top 10% · 254 works
- 5Ministère de l’Environnement et du Développement Durable10.7% top 10% · 168 works
- 6Centre Hospitalier National Universitaire de Fann2.0% top 10% · 262 works
Tunisia
- 1Manouba University9.9% top 10% · 1.3k works
- 2Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique de Tunisie3.4% top 10% · 1.3k works
- 3University of Sousse7.3% top 10% · 2.5k works
- 4University of Jendouba11.4% top 10% · 578 works
- 5University of Sfax8.3% top 10% · 5.2k works
- 6University of Gabès6.7% 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.
Senegal
- 1 Amadou Alpha Sall #62,432 worldwide 13k citations · 193 works
- 2 Amadou Alpha Sall #98,926 worldwide 12k citations · 199 works
- 3 Susan Shepherd #185,173 worldwide 10k citations · 146 works
- 4 Massamba Sylla #244,316 worldwide 2.4k citations · 71 works
- 5 Gamou Fall #272,079 worldwide 2.7k citations · 161 works
Tunisia
- 1 Naima Lassoued #58,759 worldwide 1.6k citations · 79 works
- 2 Imen Khanchel #94,831 worldwide 1.6k citations · 78 works
- 3 Karim Rejeb #97,324 worldwide 6.2k citations · 80 works
- 4 Khaled Mokni #103,833 worldwide 2.5k citations · 70 works
- 5 Anis Chaouachi #111,304 worldwide 10k citations · 146 works