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On research quality in 2022-now, Ukraine ranks #60 in the world and Uzbekistan #121, of 189 countries. Ukraine stands higher in 25 of the 25 fields both publish in, Uzbekistan in 0.

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Ukraine

World rank, 2022-now
#60
#76 all time
Works, 2022-now
168k
fractional
Top-10% rate
6.6%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
65%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Anatomy, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Fuel Technology.

Uzbekistan

World rank, 2022-now
#121
#164 all time
Works, 2022-now
48k
fractional
Top-10% rate
6.1%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
68%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Aquatic Science, Anatomy, Nuclear Energy and Engineering.

Who leads, measure by measure?

Ukraine leads on 5 of 9 measures: research quality, output, top-10% rate, citations per work and international co-authorship. Uzbekistan leads on 3 of 9 measures: citation excellence for its fields, open access and growth. The two are level on institutions in the world top 100.

Ukraine 51 level3 Uzbekistan
  1. #60Research qualityworld rank of 189 countries, 2022-now#121
  2. 0.43×Citation excellence for its fieldsits top-10% rate against what its topics predict; 1.00× is as expected0.46×
  3. 168kOutputfractional works, 2022-now48k
  4. 6.6%Top-10% rateshare of its works among the world's most cited6.1%
  5. 4.0Citations per workall time, per fractional work2.1
  6. 0World top 100institutions it holds among the world's best 1000
  7. 65%Open accessof its works free to read, all time68%
  8. 14%Internationalof its works written with co-authors abroad, all time13%
  9. +4%Growthworks in 2022-25 against 2018-21; half a bar is no change+108%

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, citation excellence and the top-10% rate are explained in the methodology.

Who leads in each field?

Ukraine stands higher in 25 of 25 fields, Uzbekistan in 0. Ukraine leads most in Social Sciences (#42 against #115). Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Ukraine 250 Uzbekistan
  1. #52Agricultural and Biological Sciences#88
  2. #42Arts and Humanities#87
  3. #80Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#99
  4. #63Business, Management and Accounting#102
  5. #40Chemical Engineering-
  6. #42Chemistry#66
  7. #58Computer Science#96
  8. #61Decision Sciences#74
  9. #53Dentistry-
  10. #72Earth and Planetary Sciences#76
  11. #31Economics, Econometrics and Finance#74
  12. #61Energy#64
  13. #51Engineering#78
  14. #68Environmental Science#117
  15. #70Health Professions#91
  16. #68Immunology and Microbiology-
  17. #37Materials Science#62
  18. #40Mathematics#57
  19. #102Medicine#151
  20. #66Neuroscience#70
  21. #61Nursing-
  22. #39Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics-
  23. #52Physics and Astronomy#56
  24. #66Psychology#103
  25. #42Social Sciences#115

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 Ukraine rankUzbekistan rank Ukraine top 10%Uzbekistan top 10% Ukraine worksUzbekistan works
Agricultural and Biological Sciences #52 #88 6.4% 8.0% 8.7k 3.9k
Arts and Humanities #42 #87 7.6% 4.9% 4.9k 2.5k
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology #80 #99 2.5% 3.2% 3.3k 774
Business, Management and Accounting #63 #102 7.0% 5.8% 5.6k 1.6k
Chemical Engineering #40 - 2.7% - 279 -
Chemistry #42 #66 3.1% 2.9% 1.8k 571
Computer Science #58 #96 6.2% 6.5% 12k 3.1k
Decision Sciences #61 #74 4.1% 5.9% 905 263
Dentistry #53 - 1.0% - 696 -
Earth and Planetary Sciences #72 #76 4.0% 5.8% 1.6k 318
Economics, Econometrics and Finance #31 #74 9.0% 7.6% 14k 3k
Energy #61 #64 4.9% 7.9% 1.1k 558
Engineering #51 #78 6.1% 7.9% 26k 6.6k
Environmental Science #68 #117 7.3% 5.5% 13k 1.4k
Health Professions #70 #91 6.5% 5.0% 2.7k 1.4k
Immunology and Microbiology #68 - 1.7% - 796 -
Materials Science #37 #62 3.7% 6.0% 4.9k 1.4k
Mathematics #40 #57 7.9% 8.0% 2k 1.2k
Medicine #102 #151 3.3% 1.7% 19k 4.2k
Neuroscience #66 #70 2.1% 3.4% 1.2k 282
Nursing #61 - 1.4% - 373 -
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics #39 - 7.3% - 485 -
Physics and Astronomy #52 #56 2.7% 10.6% 2.6k 1.1k
Psychology #66 #103 4.5% 3.3% 3.4k 1k
Social Sciences #42 #115 9.8% 6.3% 36k 12k

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.

Ukraine

▲ 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 Development23k▲ 7.8×112 topics
  2. Globalization12k▲ 3.4×180 topics
  3. Innovation12k▲ 6.1×89 topics
  4. Financial Security12k▲ 59×3 topics
  5. Economic Development11k▲ 7.7×56 topics
  6. Economic Security10k▲ 26×7 topics
  7. Legal Regulation9,255▲ 22×8 topics
  8. Climate Change9,158▲ 1.80×129 topics
  9. Environmental Management8,978▲ 12×23 topics
  10. Artificial Intelligence8,644▲ 3.2×67 topics
  11. Renewable Energy8,525▲ 3.1×61 topics
  12. Energy Efficiency8,353▲ 4.8×45 topics
  13. Human Rights7,344▲ 3.8×90 topics
  14. Digital Transformation7,226▲ 7.1×31 topics
  15. Foresight5,820▲ 24×2 topics
  16. Ethnicity5,702▲ 8.1×24 topics
  17. Industrial Policy5,637▲ 28×7 topics
  18. Pedagogy5,568▲ 5.9×30 topics
  19. Literature5,536▲ 5.4×62 topics
  20. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles5,435▲ 15×5 topics
  21. Strategic Planning5,430▲ 20×5 topics
  22. Design5,402▲ 18×6 topics
  23. Modernization5,387▲ 16×5 topics
  24. Culture5,370▲ 5.5×37 topics
  25. Air Force5,355▲ 24×1 topic
  26. Warfare5,355▲ 24×1 topic
  27. Philosophy5,153▲ 6.2×44 topics
  28. International Trade Law5,001▲ 20×2 topics
  29. Public Oversight4,988▲ 22×1 topic
  30. Transport Policy4,988▲ 22×1 topic
  31. Science4,983▲ 11×13 topics
  32. Social Influence4,955▲ 12×3 topics
  33. Public Finance4,932▲ 60×4 topics
  34. Islam4,916▲ 13×5 topics
  35. Digital Economy4,896▲ 13×20 topics
  36. Sharia Law4,890▲ 18×2 topics
  37. Malay Language4,888▲ 19×1 topic
  38. Fiscal Risks4,882▲ 73×1 topic
  39. Smart Industry4,882▲ 73×1 topic
  40. Innovation Development4,596▲ 32×3 topics

Uzbekistan

▲ 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. Pedagogy7,132▲ 21×26 topics
  2. Language Teaching6,555▲ 37×8 topics
  3. Digital Education6,332▲ 64×7 topics
  4. Educational Technologies6,278▲ 104×2 topics
  5. Tourism Development6,095▲ 67×2 topics
  6. Teaching Methods6,091▲ 57×10 topics
  7. Critical Thinking6,061▲ 79×5 topics
  8. Formative Assessment6,046▲ 109×2 topics
  9. Artistic Education6,019▲ 139×1 topic
  10. Student Competencies6,019▲ 139×1 topic
  11. Globalization5,596▲ 4.3×147 topics
  12. Sustainability4,687▲ 2.9×125 topics
  13. Digital Economy4,324▲ 32×18 topics
  14. Entrepreneurship4,139▲ 16×22 topics
  15. Economic Development4,107▲ 7.7×48 topics
  16. Renewable Energy3,494▲ 3.6×60 topics
  17. Sustainable Development3,486▲ 3.4×102 topics
  18. Investment3,309▲ 44×6 topics
  19. Industrial Enterprises3,228▲ 143×1 topic
  20. Innovation Economics3,228▲ 143×1 topic
  21. Innovation2,735▲ 4.0×81 topics
  22. Education2,463▲ 2.2×132 topics
  23. Educational Technology2,452▲ 3.1×45 topics
  24. Energy Consumption2,050▲ 14×8 topics
  25. E-Learning2,039▲ 3.2×26 topics
  26. History2,007▲ 4.3×50 topics
  27. Climate Change Impact1,988▲ 13×8 topics
  28. Irrigation1,929▲ 150×1 topic
  29. Water Efficiency1,929▲ 150×1 topic
  30. Online Learning1,812▲ 3.3×26 topics
  31. Language1,754▲ 11×15 topics
  32. Philosophy1,753▲ 6.0×39 topics
  33. Digitalization1,460▲ 11×14 topics
  34. Ethnicity1,436▲ 5.8×22 topics
  35. Global Governance1,426▲ 8.9×23 topics
  36. Migration1,397▲ 6.2×31 topics
  37. Legal Regulation1,363▲ 9.1×8 topics
  38. Economic Security1,301▲ 9.2×7 topics
  39. Islam1,195▲ 8.7×5 topics
  40. Social Influence1,194▲ 8.5×3 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?

Ukraine has out-published Uzbekistan every year since 1980.

still counting20k40k60kUkraine38k in 2025Uzbekistan14k 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 counting0.50%1.0%Ukraine0.65% in 2025Uzbekistan0.24% 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%Uzbekistan5.4% in 2025Ukraine5.3% 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.

Ukraine 05 level0 Uzbekistan
  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, Ukraine or Uzbekistan?

Ukraine publishes 3.5× as much research as Uzbekistan in 2022-now (168k against 48k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Ukraine or Uzbekistan?

6.6% of Ukraine's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 6.1% for Uzbekistan.

Is Ukraine or Uzbekistan growing faster?

Output in 2022-25 was +108% against 2018-21 for Uzbekistan, and +4% for Ukraine.

Which has more open access research, Ukraine or Uzbekistan?

68% of Uzbekistan's research is free to read, against 65% of Ukraine's.

Which has more world-class institutions, Ukraine or Uzbekistan?

Ukraine holds 0 of the world's top 100 research institutions and Uzbekistan 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%.

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.

Ukraine

  1. 1 Igor Bondarenko #35,157 worldwide 56k citations · 630 works
  2. 2 Alexander N. Parkhomenko #40,415 worldwide 91k citations · 305 works
  3. 3 Y. Martynov #43,257 worldwide 19k citations · 224 works
  4. 4 Halyna Mishchuk #45,622 worldwide 1.8k citations · 67 works
  5. 5 Aleksei V. Chechkin #60,860 worldwide 9.2k citations · 235 works

Uzbekistan

  1. 1 Farruh Atamurotov #8,102 worldwide 5.7k citations · 283 works
  2. 2 Javlon Rayimbaev #10,233 worldwide 3.6k citations · 178 works
  3. 3 Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov #23,455 worldwide 7.2k citations · 268 works
  4. 4 Inomjon Ibragimov #46,540 worldwide 554 citations · 53 works
  5. 5 Bobomurat J. Ahmedov #76,306 worldwide 8.6k citations · 318 works