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On research quality in 2022-now, Slovenia ranks #36 in the world and Thailand #39, of 189 countries. Slovenia stands higher in 13 of the 26 fields both publish in, Thailand in 13.

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Slovenia

World rank, 2022-now
#36
#35 all time
Works, 2022-now
28k
fractional
Top-10% rate
9.0%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
51%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Music, Space and Planetary Science, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics.

Thailand

World rank, 2022-now
#39
#41 all time
Works, 2022-now
94k
fractional
Top-10% rate
8.8%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
49%
of its works free to read

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

Who leads, measure by measure?

Slovenia leads on 5 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, citations per work, open access and international co-authorship. Thailand leads on 2 of 9 measures: output and growth. The two are level on top-10% rate and institutions in the world top 100.

Slovenia 52 level2 Thailand
  1. #36Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#39
  2. 0.92×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.81×
  3. 28kOutputfractional works, 2022-now94k
  4. 9.0%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited8.8%
  5. 14.6Citations per workall time, per fractional work13.7
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 51%Open accessof its works free to read, all time49%
  8. 26%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time22%
  9. +6%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+34%

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?

Slovenia stands higher in 13 of 26 fields, Thailand in 13. Slovenia leads most in Physics and Astronomy (#31 against #49); Thailand leads most in Chemistry (#36 against #49). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Slovenia 1313 Thailand
  1. #47Agricultural and Biological Sciences#37
  2. #35Arts and Humanities#39
  3. #34Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#38
  4. #40Business, Management and Accounting#44
  5. -Chemical Engineering#29
  6. #49Chemistry#36
  7. #40Computer Science#45
  8. #34Decision Sciences#38
  9. -Dentistry#32
  10. #47Earth and Planetary Sciences#49
  11. #46Economics, Econometrics and Finance#52
  12. #56Energy#44
  13. #45Engineering#44
  14. #44Environmental Science#34
  15. #48Health Professions#45
  16. #42Immunology and Microbiology#32
  17. #33Materials Science#41
  18. #38Mathematics#44
  19. #50Medicine#34
  20. #38Neuroscience#44
  21. -Nursing#39
  22. -Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#23
  23. #31Physics and Astronomy#49
  24. #42Psychology#47
  25. #38Social Sciences#47
  26. -Veterinary#21

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 Slovenia rankThailand rank Slovenia top 10%Thailand top 10% Slovenia worksThailand works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #47 #37 9.8% 10.7% 1.1k 6.8k
Arts and Humanities #35 #39 9.4% 12.1% 1.5k 1.7k
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #34 #38 9.7% 7.6% 1.4k 5.5k
Business, Management and Accounting #40 #44 10.0% 9.0% 1.1k 4k
Chemical Engineering - #29 - 6.8% - 392
Chemistry #49 #36 7.9% 7.6% 421 1.4k
Computer Science #40 #45 9.4% 8.2% 2k 6.3k
Decision Sciences #34 #38 10.7% 7.9% 300 1.3k
Dentistry - #32 - 12.5% - 913
Earth and Planetary Sciences #47 #49 7.4% 9.3% 419 750
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #46 #52 9.4% 8.9% 957 1.7k
Energy #56 #44 6.4% 6.1% 255 956
Engineering #45 #44 8.1% 8.0% 3.8k 13k
Environmental Science #44 #34 7.3% 7.9% 1.5k 4.9k
Health Professions #48 #45 8.3% 10.4% 650 2k
Immunology and Microbiology #42 #32 8.2% 9.8% 213 1.3k
Materials Science #33 #41 8.3% 6.9% 1k 4.1k
Mathematics #38 #44 10.0% 9.0% 404 1.2k
Medicine #50 #34 9.5% 8.7% 4.4k 20k
Neuroscience #38 #44 8.1% 7.3% 324 941
Nursing - #39 - 7.9% - 817
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics - #23 - 10.3% - 765
Physics and Astronomy #31 #49 10.5% 6.9% 561 959
Psychology #42 #47 7.6% 7.6% 1.1k 2.7k
Social Sciences #38 #47 9.7% 10.6% 4.4k 9.2k
Veterinary - #21 - 11.4% - 262

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.

Slovenia

▲ 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. Sustainability1,037▲ 1.30×130 topics
  2. Epidemiology1,033▼ 0.79×140 topics
  3. Machine Learning877▼ 0.81×95 topics
  4. Climate Change861◆ 0.97×122 topics
  5. Globalization722◆ 1.12×170 topics
  6. Religion674▲ 4.5×40 topics
  7. Sustainable Development669▲ 1.31×102 topics
  8. Human Rights623▲ 1.86×85 topics
  9. Ethics610▲ 3.7×55 topics
  10. Environmental Impact591◆ 1.06×71 topics
  11. Identity578▲ 2.4×73 topics
  12. Resilience546▲ 3.4×19 topics
  13. Artificial Intelligence539▲ 1.16×65 topics
  14. Mental Health525◆ 1.12×48 topics
  15. Cultural Integration439▲ 6.3×3 topics
  16. Media438▲ 8.9×17 topics
  17. Economic Growth432▲ 1.62×35 topics
  18. Social Change430▲ 11×20 topics
  19. Spirituality420▲ 13×8 topics
  20. Cultural History414▲ 11×15 topics
  21. Communication Technology400▲ 98×1 topic
  22. Youth Subcultures400▲ 98×1 topic
  23. International Relations344▲ 4.3×31 topics
  24. Nation-Building250▲ 14×4 topics
  25. Transition240▲ 8.3×6 topics
  26. International Trade236▲ 5.2×12 topics
  27. Authoritarianism235▲ 8.2×5 topics
  28. Memory Politics215▲ 24×2 topics
  29. Dissent215▲ 34×1 topic
  30. Post-Communist215▲ 34×1 topic
  31. Foreign Policy212▲ 17×4 topics
  32. Lexicography212▲ 7.5×5 topics
  33. Sovereign Debt Crises208▲ 16×2 topics
  34. Negotiation201▲ 17×4 topics
  35. Commercial Diplomacy193▲ 50×1 topic
  36. Economic Diplomacy193▲ 50×1 topic
  37. Etymology191▲ 12×2 topics
  38. Historical Phonology191▲ 12×2 topics
  39. Language Evolution187▲ 14×2 topics
  40. Indo-European177▲ 26×1 topic

Thailand

▲ 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. Epidemiology5,771▲ 1.34×139 topics
  2. Deep Learning3,350◆ 0.90×85 topics
  3. Machine Learning3,342◆ 0.93×97 topics
  4. Sustainability2,916◆ 1.10×132 topics
  5. Inflammation2,649◆ 1.15×83 topics
  6. Environmental Impact2,480▲ 1.35×72 topics
  7. Climate Change2,247▼ 0.76×125 topics
  8. Biomedical Applications2,236▲ 1.75×36 topics
  9. Oxidative Stress2,210▲ 1.24×63 topics
  10. Antioxidant1,937▲ 2.6×51 topics
  11. Nanoparticles1,735▲ 1.27×44 topics
  12. Renewable Energy1,714◆ 1.10×59 topics
  13. Globalization1,659▼ 0.78×156 topics
  14. Cardiovascular Disease1,633▲ 1.32×39 topics
  15. Quality of Life1,613◆ 1.03×59 topics
  16. Nanocomposites1,602▲ 1.88×22 topics
  17. Artificial Intelligence1,586◆ 1.03×64 topics
  18. Antioxidant Activity1,547▲ 2.3×32 topics
  19. Cancer1,532◆ 1.05×59 topics
  20. Educational Technology1,512▲ 1.18×46 topics
  21. Treatment1,505◆ 1.15×52 topics
  22. Neural Networks1,478◆ 0.89×42 topics
  23. Nanomaterials1,452▲ 1.28×21 topics
  24. COVID-191,411◆ 1.00×34 topics
  25. Tissue Engineering1,224▲ 1.87×13 topics
  26. Mechanical Properties1,219◆ 1.15×39 topics
  27. Diagnosis1,163◆ 1.15×41 topics
  28. Supply Chain Management1,150▲ 1.19×27 topics
  29. Antioxidants1,081▲ 2.3×17 topics
  30. Global Burden966▲ 1.64×12 topics
  31. Health Benefits946▲ 2.6×16 topics
  32. Anti-inflammatory932▲ 3.0×29 topics
  33. Pathogenesis929▲ 1.68×24 topics
  34. Gut Microbiota812▲ 2.2×7 topics
  35. Technology Integration789▲ 2.3×12 topics
  36. Flavonoids781▲ 2.8×12 topics
  37. Antimicrobial778▲ 2.5×14 topics
  38. Vaccine Development766▲ 2.8×11 topics
  39. Biomaterials706▲ 2.7×7 topics
  40. Biodegradable Polymers702▲ 3.8×4 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?

Thailand has out-published Slovenia every year since 2001, when it overtook it.

still counting10k20k30kThailand28k in 2025Slovenia8,105 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 counting0.20%0.40%0.60%Thailand0.48% in 2025Slovenia0.14% 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%Thailand9.2% in 2025Slovenia9.1% 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.

Slovenia 23 level0 Thailand
  1. 0In the world top 500
  2. 0In the top 1000
  3. 0In the top 5000
  4. 1In the top 1,0000
  5. #39Elite 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, Slovenia or Thailand?

Thailand publishes 3.3× as much research as Slovenia in 2022-now (94k against 28k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Slovenia or Thailand?

9.0% of Slovenia's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 8.8% for Thailand.

Is Slovenia or Thailand growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +34% against 2018-21 for Thailand, and +6% for Slovenia.

Which has more open access research, Slovenia or Thailand?

51% of Slovenia's research is free to read, against 49% of Thailand's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Slovenia or Thailand?

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

Slovenia

  1. 1University of Ljubljana9.7% top 10% · 8.5k works
  2. 2Jožef Stefan Institute9.3% top 10% · 1.7k works
  3. 3University of Maribor9.6% top 10% · 4.2k works
  4. 4University of Primorska10.1% top 10% · 1.2k works
  5. 5National Institute of Chemistry9.7% top 10% · 478 works
  6. 6Faculty of Media6.6% top 10% · 647 works

Thailand

  1. 1Chulalongkorn University9.7% top 10% · 9k works
  2. 2Mahidol University9.9% top 10% · 10k works
  3. 3Chiang Mai University10.3% top 10% · 6.5k works
  4. 4Ministry of Education17.7% top 10% · 535 works
  5. 5King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi9.9% top 10% · 2k works
  6. 6Khon Kaen University9.5% top 10% · 4.5k 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, 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.

Slovenia

  1. 1 Matjaž Perc #1,993 worldwide 51k citations · 733 works
  2. 2 Abdulrasheed Zakari #11,817 worldwide 6.6k citations · 91 works
  3. 3 Tomaž Prosen #20,492 worldwide 18k citations · 393 works
  4. 4 G. Kramberger #34,382 worldwide 6.1k citations · 87 works
  5. 5 Robert Dominko #39,565 worldwide 17k citations · 379 works

Thailand

  1. 1 Omid Mahian #6,124 worldwide 24k citations · 323 works
  2. 2 Nicholas Day #9,058 worldwide 83k citations · 4,663 works
  3. 3 Jin Cao #9,597 worldwide 8.7k citations · 140 works
  4. 4 W. Mitthumsiri #10,824 worldwide 39k citations · 252 works
  5. 5 Philip Hallinger #12,771 worldwide 31k citations · 388 works

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