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Serbia vs Zimbabwe

On research quality in 2022-now, Serbia ranks #74 in the world and Zimbabwe #75, of 189 countries. Serbia stands higher in 19 of the 23 fields both publish in, Zimbabwe in 4.

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Serbia

World rank, 2022-now
#74
#80 all time
Works, 2022-now
39k
fractional
Top-10% rate
7.4%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
59%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Biochemistry, Filtration and Separation, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management.

Zimbabwe

World rank, 2022-now
#75
#82 all time
Works, 2022-now
7.2k
fractional
Top-10% rate
6.9%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
52%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Fuel Technology, Archeology, Public Administration.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Serbia leads on 4 of 9 measures: research quality, output, top-10% rate and open access. Zimbabwe leads on 4 of 9 measures: excellence for its fields, citations per work, international co-authorship and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Serbia 41 level4 Zimbabwe
  1. #74Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#75
  2. 0.71×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.83×
  3. 39kOutputfractional works, 2022-now7.2k
  4. 7.4%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.9%
  5. 9.7Citations per workall time, per fractional work10.3
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 59%Open accessof its works free to read, all time52%
  8. 23%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time31%
  9. +3%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+51%

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?

Serbia stands higher in 19 of 23 fields, Zimbabwe in 4. Serbia leads most in Engineering (#69 against #97); Zimbabwe leads most in Medicine (#62 against #87). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Serbia 194 Zimbabwe
  1. #70Agricultural and Biological Sciences#74
  2. #67Arts and Humanities-
  3. #69Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-
  4. #67Business, Management and Accounting#76
  5. #56Chemistry-
  6. #71Computer Science#87
  7. #58Decision Sciences-
  8. #49Dentistry-
  9. #69Earth and Planetary Sciences-
  10. #57Economics, Econometrics and Finance#70
  11. #58Energy-
  12. #69Engineering#97
  13. #79Environmental Science#85
  14. #82Health Professions#72
  15. #61Immunology and Microbiology-
  16. #60Materials Science-
  17. #46Mathematics-
  18. #87Medicine#62
  19. #60Neuroscience-
  20. #63Nursing-
  21. #50Physics and Astronomy-
  22. #81Psychology#79
  23. #83Social Sciences#72

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 Serbia rankZimbabwe rank Serbia top 10%Zimbabwe top 10% Serbia worksZimbabwe works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #70 #74 8.7% 7.3% 2.9k 623
Arts and Humanities #67 - 6.8% - 1.3k -
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #69 - 6.7% - 1.7k -
Business, Management and Accounting #67 #76 9.0% 6.0% 1.6k 548
Chemistry #56 - 6.5% - 674 -
Computer Science #71 #87 8.0% 6.8% 2.5k 336
Decision Sciences #58 - 11.9% - 505 -
Dentistry #49 - 8.7% - 247 -
Earth and Planetary Sciences #69 - 8.7% - 466 -
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #57 #70 11.4% 4.6% 2k 367
Energy #58 - 6.1% - 304 -
Engineering #69 #97 5.6% 4.3% 5.4k 677
Environmental Science #79 #85 6.2% 4.8% 2.1k 509
Health Professions #82 #72 8.0% 9.9% 754 276
Immunology and Microbiology #61 - 7.1% - 304 -
Materials Science #60 - 5.4% - 996 -
Mathematics #46 - 11.2% - 733 -
Medicine #87 #62 6.8% 9.9% 6.9k 785
Neuroscience #60 - 6.9% - 485 -
Nursing #63 - 8.0% - 244 -
Physics and Astronomy #50 - 4.3% - 752 -
Psychology #81 #79 5.4% 4.9% 1.2k 210
Social Sciences #83 #72 8.0% 7.3% 4.7k 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.

Serbia

▲ 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 Development1,762▲ 2.6×103 topics
  2. Epidemiology1,436▼ 0.82×138 topics
  3. Sustainability1,361▲ 1.27×126 topics
  4. Economic Growth1,315▲ 3.7×36 topics
  5. Machine Learning1,287◆ 0.88×95 topics
  6. Climate Change1,224◆ 1.03×125 topics
  7. Oxidative Stress969▲ 1.34×63 topics
  8. Regional Development957▲ 6.4×19 topics
  9. Financial Performance950▲ 3.9×16 topics
  10. Environmental Impact911▲ 1.22×72 topics
  11. Inflammation888◆ 0.95×83 topics
  12. Organizational Culture887▲ 5.2×15 topics
  13. Innovation Management834▲ 12×10 topics
  14. Agricultural Sustainability824▲ 17×6 topics
  15. Small and Medium Enterprises822▲ 11×10 topics
  16. Globalization815◆ 0.95×163 topics
  17. Artificial Intelligence811▲ 1.30×62 topics
  18. Rural Tourism780▲ 57×2 topics
  19. Leadership Emergence780▲ 130×1 topic
  20. Renewable Energy736▲ 1.16×61 topics
  21. Antioxidant610▲ 2.0×51 topics
  22. Ethnicity558▲ 3.4×21 topics
  23. Identity558▲ 1.76×72 topics
  24. International Relations547▲ 5.2×29 topics
  25. Antioxidant Activity510▲ 1.87×32 topics
  26. Religion449▲ 2.2×40 topics
  27. International Trade429▲ 7.0×11 topics
  28. Legal Regulation412▲ 4.2×8 topics
  29. Foreign Policy403▲ 24×4 topics
  30. Sovereign Debt Crises397▲ 22×2 topics
  31. Nation-Building395▲ 17×4 topics
  32. Flavonoids371▲ 3.3×12 topics
  33. Negotiation368▲ 24×3 topics
  34. Commercial Diplomacy359▲ 70×1 topic
  35. Economic Diplomacy359▲ 70×1 topic
  36. Conflict313▲ 4.4×11 topics
  37. Balkans284▲ 28×2 topics
  38. Eastern Europe264▲ 12×3 topics
  39. Post-war244▲ 48×1 topic
  40. Yugoslavia244▲ 48×1 topic

Zimbabwe

▲ 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. Colonialism557▲ 14×23 topics
  2. Social Justice455▲ 9.1×35 topics
  3. Nationalism444▲ 12×15 topics
  4. Sustainability430▲ 2.1×96 topics
  5. Political Economy415▲ 19×14 topics
  6. Climate Change406▲ 1.79×108 topics
  7. Land Reform389▲ 99×2 topics
  8. History388▲ 6.7×13 topics
  9. Agrarian Relations362▲ 470×1 topic
  10. Zimbabwe362▲ 470×1 topic
  11. Sustainable Development355▲ 2.7×84 topics
  12. Globalization319▲ 1.94×104 topics
  13. Social Capital236▲ 5.4×18 topics
  14. Environmental Impact225▲ 1.58×65 topics
  15. Mental Health203▲ 1.70×41 topics
  16. COVID-19196▲ 1.81×29 topics
  17. Economic Growth190▲ 2.8×30 topics
  18. Higher Education180▲ 4.0×27 topics
  19. Human Rights179▲ 2.1×51 topics
  20. Poverty Reduction175▲ 16×6 topics
  21. Innovation173▲ 2.0×56 topics
  22. Digital Transformation161▲ 3.6×22 topics
  23. Economic Development157▲ 2.4×38 topics
  24. Development142▲ 4.8×17 topics
  25. Sustainable Agriculture134▲ 5.2×14 topics
  26. Gender Inequality128▲ 11×6 topics
  27. Social Impact128▲ 3.9×15 topics
  28. Vulnerability125▲ 6.4×8 topics
  29. Poverty Alleviation124▲ 16×2 topics
  30. Antiretroviral Therapy122▲ 9.0×6 topics
  31. Rural Development122▲ 4.2×15 topics
  32. Health Equity115▲ 4.7×6 topics
  33. Land Tenure114▲ 33×2 topics
  34. Smallholder Farmers107▲ 6.1×6 topics
  35. Postcolonialism93▲ 7.8×10 topics
  36. Urban Poverty87▲ 24×2 topics
  37. Housing Policy87▲ 37×1 topic
  38. Slum Upgrading87▲ 37×1 topic
  39. Decolonization86▲ 13×7 topics
  40. Community Health Workers84▲ 11×2 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?

Serbia has out-published Zimbabwe every year since 1980.

still counting5k10k15kSerbia10k in 2025Zimbabwe2,138 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 counting0.10%0.20%0.30%Serbia0.18% in 2025Zimbabwe0.036% 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%Zimbabwe7.9% in 2025Serbia7.7% 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.

Serbia 05 level0 Zimbabwe
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 0In the top 5000
  4. 0In the top 1,0000
  5. #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, Serbia or Zimbabwe?

Serbia publishes 5.4× as much research as Zimbabwe in 2022-now (39k against 7.2k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Serbia or Zimbabwe?

7.4% of Serbia's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.9% for Zimbabwe.

Is Serbia or Zimbabwe growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +51% against 2018-21 for Zimbabwe, and +3% for Serbia.

Which has more open access research, Serbia or Zimbabwe?

59% of Serbia's research is free to read, against 52% of Zimbabwe's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Serbia or Zimbabwe?

Serbia holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Zimbabwe 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%.

Serbia

  1. 1University of Belgrade7.3% top 10% · 14k works
  2. 2Singidunum University11.5% top 10% · 725 works
  3. 3University of Novi Sad7.5% top 10% · 6.6k works
  4. 4Univerzitet Union Nikola Tesla7.6% top 10% · 504 works
  5. 5Gulf University15.9% top 10% · 417 works
  6. 6University of Kragujevac8.7% top 10% · 2.4k works

Zimbabwe

  1. 1University of Zimbabwe6.5% top 10% · 1.5k works
  2. 2National University of Science and Technology6.3% top 10% · 1.2k works
  3. 3Great Zimbabwe University5.6% top 10% · 524 works
  4. 4Midlands State University6.6% top 10% · 1.1k works
  5. 5Chinhoyi University of Technology6.9% top 10% · 389 works
  6. 6Harare Institute of Technology3.4% top 10% · 228 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.

Serbia

  1. 1 Dragan Stevan Pamucar #1,015 worldwide 30k citations · 791 works
  2. 2 Mihajlo Jakovljević #2,006 worldwide 151k citations · 290 works
  3. 3 Petar M Seferovic #2,543 worldwide 70k citations · 423 works
  4. 4 Irena Ilić #6,030 worldwide 99k citations · 203 works
  5. 5 Vladimir Šimić #6,734 worldwide 7.5k citations · 346 works

Zimbabwe

  1. 1 Jephat Chifamba #20,133 worldwide 23k citations · 165 works
  2. 2 Brighton Nyagadza #68,624 worldwide 1.6k citations · 133 works
  3. 3 Régis Chikowo #103,612 worldwide 6.2k citations · 178 works
  4. 4 Christian Thierfelder #135,188 worldwide 10k citations · 271 works
  5. 5 Willis Gwenzi #170,977 worldwide 8.2k citations · 219 works