Tanzania vs Zimbabwe
On research quality in 2022-now, Tanzania ranks #64 in the world and Zimbabwe #75, of 189 countries. Tanzania stands higher in 15 of the 15 fields both publish in, Zimbabwe in 0.
Research profiles alike: 0.90very similar shapes of research, whatever their size. How it is measured
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Tanzania
- World rank, 2022-now
- #64
- #74 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 17k
- fractional
- Top-10% rate
- 7.7%
- share of its work among the world's most cited
- Open access
- 69%
- of its works free to read
Strongest relative focus: Library and Information Sciences, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Parasitology.
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?
Tanzania leads on 7 of 9 measures: research quality, excellence for its fields, output, top-10% rate, citations per work, open access and growth. Zimbabwe leads on 1 of 9 measures: international co-authorship. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.
- #64Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#75
- 0.90×Excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.83×
- 17kOutputfractional works, 2022-now7.2k
- 7.7%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.9%
- 14.6Citations per workall time, per fractional work10.3
- 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
- 69%Open accessof its works free to read, all time52%
- 30%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time31%
- +101%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?
Tanzania stands higher in 15 of 15 fields, Zimbabwe in 0. Tanzania leads most in Health Professions (#50 against #72). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.
- #50Agricultural and Biological Sciences#74
- #65Arts and Humanities-
- #63Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-
- #59Business, Management and Accounting#76
- #78Computer Science#87
- #51Decision Sciences-
- #62Economics, Econometrics and Finance#70
- #84Engineering#97
- #66Environmental Science#85
- #50Health Professions#72
- #41Immunology and Microbiology-
- #49Medicine#62
- #44Nursing-
- #67Psychology#79
- #66Social 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 | Tanzania rank | Zimbabwe rank | Tanzania top 10% | Zimbabwe top 10% | Tanzania works | Zimbabwe works |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | #50 | #74 | 9.3% | 7.3% | 1.8k | 623 |
| Arts and Humanities | #65 | - | 9.3% | - | 341 | - |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | #63 | - | 7.8% | - | 451 | - |
| Business, Management and Accounting | #59 | #76 | 7.3% | 6.0% | 1.4k | 548 |
| Computer Science | #78 | #87 | 7.5% | 6.8% | 773 | 336 |
| Decision Sciences | #51 | - | 3.7% | - | 353 | - |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | #62 | #70 | 6.2% | 4.6% | 768 | 367 |
| Engineering | #84 | #97 | 6.5% | 4.3% | 964 | 677 |
| Environmental Science | #66 | #85 | 6.8% | 4.8% | 1.4k | 509 |
| Health Professions | #50 | #72 | 10.9% | 9.9% | 630 | 276 |
| Immunology and Microbiology | #41 | - | 10.6% | - | 256 | - |
| Medicine | #49 | #62 | 8.1% | 9.9% | 3.1k | 785 |
| Nursing | #44 | - | 8.3% | - | 220 | - |
| Psychology | #67 | #79 | 6.5% | 4.9% | 434 | 210 |
| Social Sciences | #66 | #72 | 7.4% | 7.3% | 3.4k | 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.
Tanzania
- Microfinance
- Poverty Alleviation
- Conditional Cash Transfers
- Empowerment
- Livelihood Diversification
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Child Mortality
- Technology Adoption
- Health Inequalities
- Technology Integration
- Social Networks
- Community Health Workers
- Gender Equality
- Rural Development
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Supply Chain Management
- Social Capital
- Sustainable Development
- Globalization
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Environmental Impact
- Education
- Poverty Reduction
- Economic Development
- Smallholder Farmers
- Risk Management
- Maternal Mortality
- Food Security
- Gender Inequality
- Development
- Socio-economic Factors
- Adaptation
- Health Systems
- Agricultural Innovation
- Market Participation
- Primary Education
- School Subsidies
- Financial Inclusion
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology1,175▲ 1.47×137 topics
- Climate Change1,053▲ 1.93×111 topics
- Sustainability1,002▲ 2.0×102 topics
- Globalization626▲ 1.58×121 topics
- Environmental Impact569▲ 1.66×66 topics
- Sustainable Development542▲ 1.72×94 topics
- Education539▲ 1.56×102 topics
- Social Capital536▲ 5.1×20 topics
- Poverty Reduction482▲ 18×6 topics
- Supply Chain Management418▲ 2.3×25 topics
- Economic Development413▲ 2.6×37 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture403▲ 6.5×16 topics
- Smallholder Farmers396▲ 9.3×6 topics
- Rural Development392▲ 5.7×18 topics
- Risk Management370▲ 3.9×16 topics
- Gender Equality364▲ 6.4×16 topics
- Maternal Mortality351▲ 7.8×5 topics
- Community Health Workers335▲ 19×2 topics
- Food Security334▲ 3.1×23 topics
- Social Networks325▲ 6.0×10 topics
- Gender Inequality310▲ 11×7 topics
- Technology Integration307▲ 4.8×11 topics
- Development289▲ 4.0×21 topics
- Health Inequalities284▲ 12×5 topics
- Socio-economic Factors278▲ 12×3 topics
- Technology Adoption276▲ 7.4×6 topics
- Adaptation273▲ 4.5×14 topics
- Child Mortality272▲ 19×1 topic
- Health Systems272▲ 19×1 topic
- Antiretroviral Therapy235▲ 7.2×6 topics
- Agricultural Innovation233▲ 25×2 topics
- Livelihood Diversification229▲ 36×1 topic
- Market Participation229▲ 36×1 topic
- Empowerment222▲ 11×6 topics
- Primary Education218▲ 27×2 topics
- Conditional Cash Transfers218▲ 31×1 topic
- School Subsidies218▲ 31×1 topic
- Poverty Alleviation215▲ 11×3 topics
- Financial Inclusion209▲ 20×1 topic
- Microfinance209▲ 20×1 topic
Zimbabwe
- Community Health Workers
- Slum Upgrading
- Urban Poverty
- Smallholder Farmers
- Health Equity
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Vulnerability
- Gender Inequality
- Development
- Digital Transformation
- Poverty Reduction
- Higher Education
- COVID-19
- Environmental Impact
- Globalization
- Zimbabwe
- History
- Climate Change
- Sustainability
- Social Justice
- Colonialism
- Nationalism
- Political Economy
- Land Reform
- Agrarian Relations
- Sustainable Development
- Social Capital
- Mental Health
- Economic Growth
- Human Rights
- Innovation
- Economic Development
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Social Impact
- Poverty Alleviation
- Rural Development
- Land Tenure
- Postcolonialism
- Housing Policy
- Decolonization
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Colonialism557▲ 14×23 topics
- Social Justice455▲ 9.1×35 topics
- Nationalism444▲ 12×15 topics
- Sustainability430▲ 2.1×96 topics
- Political Economy415▲ 19×14 topics
- Climate Change406▲ 1.79×108 topics
- Land Reform389▲ 99×2 topics
- History388▲ 6.7×13 topics
- Agrarian Relations362▲ 470×1 topic
- Zimbabwe362▲ 470×1 topic
- Sustainable Development355▲ 2.7×84 topics
- Globalization319▲ 1.94×104 topics
- Social Capital236▲ 5.4×18 topics
- Environmental Impact225▲ 1.58×65 topics
- Mental Health203▲ 1.70×41 topics
- COVID-19196▲ 1.81×29 topics
- Economic Growth190▲ 2.8×30 topics
- Higher Education180▲ 4.0×27 topics
- Human Rights179▲ 2.1×51 topics
- Poverty Reduction175▲ 16×6 topics
- Innovation173▲ 2.0×56 topics
- Digital Transformation161▲ 3.6×22 topics
- Economic Development157▲ 2.4×38 topics
- Development142▲ 4.8×17 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture134▲ 5.2×14 topics
- Gender Inequality128▲ 11×6 topics
- Social Impact128▲ 3.9×15 topics
- Vulnerability125▲ 6.4×8 topics
- Poverty Alleviation124▲ 16×2 topics
- Antiretroviral Therapy122▲ 9.0×6 topics
- Rural Development122▲ 4.2×15 topics
- Health Equity115▲ 4.7×6 topics
- Land Tenure114▲ 33×2 topics
- Smallholder Farmers107▲ 6.1×6 topics
- Postcolonialism93▲ 7.8×10 topics
- Urban Poverty87▲ 24×2 topics
- Housing Policy87▲ 37×1 topic
- Slum Upgrading87▲ 37×1 topic
- Decolonization86▲ 13×7 topics
- 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?
Tanzania has out-published Zimbabwe every year since 2000, when it overtook it.
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, Tanzania or Zimbabwe?
Tanzania publishes 2.4× as much research as Zimbabwe in 2022-now (17k against 7.2k fractional works).
Whose research has more impact, Tanzania or Zimbabwe?
7.7% of Tanzania's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.9% for Zimbabwe.
Is Tanzania or Zimbabwe growing faster?
Output in 2022-25 was +101% against 2018-21 for Tanzania, and +51% for Zimbabwe.
Which has more open access research, Tanzania or Zimbabwe?
69% of Tanzania's research is free to read, against 52% of Zimbabwe's.
Which has more world-class institutions, Tanzania or Zimbabwe?
Tanzania 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%.
Tanzania
- 1University of Dar es Salaam7.5% top 10% · 2.6k works
- 2The University of Dodoma12.5% top 10% · 1.8k works
- 3Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences8.3% top 10% · 928 works
- 4Mzumbe University8.5% top 10% · 684 works
- 5Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology11.1% top 10% · 566 works
- 6Mbeya University of Science and Technology7.2% top 10% · 439 works
Zimbabwe
- 1University of Zimbabwe6.5% top 10% · 1.5k works
- 2National University of Science and Technology6.3% top 10% · 1.2k works
- 3Great Zimbabwe University5.6% top 10% · 524 works
- 4Midlands State University6.6% top 10% · 1.1k works
- 5Chinhoyi University of Technology6.9% top 10% · 389 works
- 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.
Tanzania
- 1 Andrew R. Williamson #1,536 worldwide 85k citations · 325 works
- 2 Audax Z. P. Mabulla #25,355 worldwide 9.3k citations · 201 works
- 3 Susan F. Rumisha #33,455 worldwide 37k citations · 167 works
- 4 Gerry F. Killeen #34,603 worldwide 16k citations · 207 works
- 5 Fredros O. Okumu #46,417 worldwide 6.3k citations · 186 works
Zimbabwe
- 1 Jephat Chifamba #20,133 worldwide 23k citations · 165 works
- 2 Brighton Nyagadza #68,624 worldwide 1.6k citations · 133 works
- 3 Régis Chikowo #103,612 worldwide 6.2k citations · 178 works
- 4 Christian Thierfelder #135,188 worldwide 10k citations · 271 works
- 5 Willis Gwenzi #170,977 worldwide 8.2k citations · 219 works