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Science in Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands ranks #160 of 189 countries on research quality in 2022-now (#159 all time), with 274 research works and 17.8% of them in the world's top 10%.

World rank, 2022-now
#160
of 189 · #159 all time
Works, 2022-now
274
▲ 46% vs 2018-21
Citations
20k
22.0 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate
17.8%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.08×
1.00× is exactly expected
In the world top 100
0
0 in the top 1,000
Open access
30%
world 40%
International
51%
world 18%
Cayman Islands

Which fields of science does Cayman Islands work in?

In 2022-now, 54% of research in Cayman Islands is in Physical Sciences, 23% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (38%), Medicine (15%), Social Sciences (12%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 169 fractional works · 53.9% of its workComputer Science: 120 fractional works · 38.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 57 fractional works · 18.0% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 40 fractional works · 12.8% of its workInformation Systems: 7 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSignal Processing: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHardware and Architecture: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 20 fractional works · 6.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 6 fractional works · 2.0% of its workComputational Mechanics: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 17 fractional works · 5.3% of its workEcology: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 fractional works · 2.0% of its workOceanography: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 74 fractional works · 23.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 38 fractional works · 12.0% of its workEducation: 12 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 9 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCultural Studies: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLaw: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 14 fractional works · 4.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 8 fractional works · 2.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAccounting: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 50 fractional works · 16.0% of its workMedicine: 47 fractional works · 14.8% of its workSurgery: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Informatics: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEpidemiology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 21 fractional works · 6.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 13 fractional works · 4.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 8 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKCayman Islands314fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences54%Health Sciences16%Social Sciences23%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this country does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science12038.1%
    2. Engineering206.4%
    3. Environmental Science175.3%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences62.0%
    5. Mathematics20.7%
    6. Materials Science20.5%
    7. Physics and Astronomy10.4%
    8. Energy10.2%
    9. Chemical Engineering10.2%
    10. Chemistry10.2%
    1. Social Sciences3812.0%
    2. Psychology144.5%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting82.4%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance51.6%
    5. Decision Sciences51.5%
    6. Arts and Humanities41.4%
    1. Medicine4714.8%
    2. Health Professions31.0%
    3. Nursing10.2%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology134.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences41.2%
    3. Neuroscience30.8%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Which keywords describe research in Cayman Islands?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks, Information Retrieval, Text Classification, Machine Translation, Topic Modeling and Semantic Similarity.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this country's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Deep Learning54▲ 5.0×52 topics
  2. Neural Networks38▲ 7.9×24 topics
  3. Machine Learning22▲ 2.1×42 topics
  4. Convolutional Neural Networks16▲ 7.0×11 topics
  5. Information Retrieval15▲ 21×3 topics
  6. Text Classification15▲ 29×3 topics
  7. Climate Change14▲ 1.66×32 topics
  8. Machine Translation13▲ 24×2 topics
  9. Topic Modeling13▲ 26×2 topics
  10. Semantic Similarity12▲ 32×1 topic
  11. Word Representation12▲ 32×1 topic
  12. Corpus Linguistics12▲ 18×2 topics
  13. Neural Machine Translation12▲ 41×1 topic
  14. Statistical Machine Translation12▲ 41×1 topic
  15. Unsupervised Learning10▲ 21×3 topics
  16. Globalization10▲ 1.62×15 topics
  17. Artificial Intelligence10▲ 2.1×14 topics
  18. Representation Learning9▲ 17×3 topics
  19. Convolutional Networks8▲ 20×3 topics
  20. Ocean Acidification7▲ 30×3 topics
  21. Big Data7▲ 2.4×10 topics
  22. Image Captioning7▲ 40×1 topic
  23. Visual Question Answering7▲ 24×1 topic
  24. Medical Imaging6▲ 3.8×7 topics
  25. Identity6▲ 2.8×6 topics
  26. Marine Ecosystems6▲ 35×2 topics
  27. Semi-Supervised Learning6▲ 15×3 topics
  28. Pose Estimation5▲ 14×2 topics
  29. Caribbean5▲ 85×2 topics
  30. Generative Adversarial Networks5▲ 18×2 topics
  31. Deep Neural Networks5▲ 12×3 topics
  32. Population Dynamics5▲ 5.9×7 topics
  33. Meta-Learning5▲ 17×2 topics
  34. Image Classification4▲ 7.5×2 topics
  35. Postcolonialism4▲ 9.9×2 topics
  36. Transfer Learning4▲ 7.1×3 topics
  37. Bleaching4▲ 41×1 topic
  38. Coral Reefs4▲ 41×1 topic
  39. Dancehall4▲ 178×1 topic
  40. Image Recognition4▲ 8.5×2 topics

Which research topics does Cayman Islands publish the most in?

Its largest topics in 2022-now are Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Multimodal Machine Learning Applications.

Topic Modeling12Topic Modeling: 12 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 12 fractional worksMultimodal Machine Learning Applications: 7 fractional worksCoral and Marine Ecosystems Studies: 4 fractional worksCaribbean history, culture, and politics: 4 fractional worksHuman Pose and Action Recognition: 4 fractional worksAdvanced Neural Network Applications: 4 fractional worksDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning: 4 fractional worksAdvanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques: 4 fractional worksGenerative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis: 3 fractional worksSpeech Recognition and Synthesis: 3 fractional worksAdvanced Vision and Imaging: 3 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionEcologyCultural Studies

Area is fractional works in 2022-now; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to. Every tile is a topic page.

  1. 1 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 12 works
  2. 2 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 12 works
  3. 3 Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 7 works
  4. 4 Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies Ecology 4 works
  5. 5 Caribbean history, culture, and politics Cultural Studies 4 works
  6. 6 Human Pose and Action Recognition Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 4 works
  7. 7 Advanced Neural Network Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 4 works
  8. 8 Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning Artificial Intelligence 4 works
  9. 9 Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 4 works
  10. 10 Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 3 works
  11. 11 Speech Recognition and Synthesis Artificial Intelligence 3 works
  12. 12 Advanced Vision and Imaging Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 3 works

Which universities in Cayman Islands lead research?

University College of the Cayman Islands rank highest in Cayman Islands on research quality in 2022-now.

  1. 1University College of the Cayman IslandsUniversity · George Town · #19,970 worldwide5.1% top 10% · 63 works

The track on each row is its top-10% rate; the tick is the average of all institutions, 10.0% (how it is set): teal above it, red below.

All ranked institutions in Cayman Islands

Who are the top researchers in Cayman Islands?

Lidong Bing, Zhongqiang Huang and Boxing Chen rank highest among researchers based in Cayman Islands.

  1. 1 Lidong Bing #48,864 worldwide 11k citations · 334 works
  2. 2 Zhongqiang Huang #820,022 worldwide 2.3k citations · 79 works
  3. 3 Boxing Chen #870,777 worldwide 2.1k citations · 193 works
  4. 4 Yew Ken Chia #1,085,768 worldwide 569 citations · 37 works
  5. 5 Mahani Aljunied #1,137,558 worldwide 108 citations · 17 works
  6. 6 Samal Nauhria #1,177,781 worldwide 535 citations · 41 works
  7. 7 Emanuel Ben-Baruch #1,219,027 worldwide 903 citations · 15 works
  8. 8 Yifeng Geng #1,243,735 worldwide 403 citations · 30 works
  9. 9 Dayang Hao #1,326,908 worldwide 224 citations · 16 works
  10. 10 Ji Zhang #1,506,728 worldwide 244 citations · 24 works
Top researchers in Cayman Islands

How open and international is Cayman Islands's research?

30% of its research is openly available (world: 40%), and 51% is written with international co-authors (world: 18%).

openly available29.5%not open70.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors51.0%domestic only49.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Cayman Islands's research grown?

Output in 2022-2025 was 46% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Cayman Islands as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00071% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Cayman Islands0.0017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Cayman Islands over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Over the whole record, 13.0% of its 930 works since 1950 reached the world top 10% for their field and year.

still counting10%20%30%Cayman Islands11.5% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 25.6% in 2021.

Which countries have research most like the Cayman Islands'?

Malta is the Cayman Islands' closest research twin: of all countries, its research is spread across the fields most like the Cayman Islands', with both strong in Psychology.

  1. 1 MaltaBoth strong in Psychology, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Decision Sciences 0.64 Compare
  2. 2 Dominican RepublicBoth strong in Psychology, Computer Science 0.58 Compare
  3. 3 LuxembourgBoth strong in Computer Science, Decision Sciences, Psychology 0.56 Compare
  4. 4 AlbaniaBoth strong in Decision Sciences, Psychology, Environmental Science 0.55 Compare
  5. 5 PhilippinesBoth strong in Decision Sciences, Psychology, Computer Science 0.55 Compare

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