Science in Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis ranks #108 of 189 countries on research quality in 2022-now (#110 all time), with 897 research works and 11.3% of them in the world's top 10%.
- World rank, 2022-now
- #108 of 189 · #110 all time
- Works, 2022-now
- 897 ▲ 84% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 28k 13.2 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate
- 11.3% all institutions 10.0%
- vs its own fields
- 1.04× 1.00× is exactly expected
- In the world top 100
- 0 0 in the top 1,000
- Open access
- 49% world 40%
- International
- 71% world 18%
What is Saint Kitts and Nevis strongest at in science?
On research quality in 2022-now, Saint Kitts and Nevis ranks highest in Medicine (#79 of 152). Relative to its size it is most specialised in Equine, Fuel Technology and Veterinary.
| Field | World rank | Where that sits | Top-10% rate | Works | All time | Institutions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MedicineField | #79 of 152 | 9.6% | 272 | #88 | Institutions |
Where its research is concentrated
Location quotient: how much more (or less) of each node it does than its size predicts. Drawn around 1×, where "twice the world share" and "half of it" are the same distance apart in opposite directions. A volume reading, which on a country axis is largely population and industrial structure.
- EquineSubfield · 6.6 works · #54 of 135 active here46×
- Fuel TechnologySubfield · 1.3 works · #58 of 113 active here14×
- VeterinaryField · 19.7 works · #83 of 198 active here13×
- ParasitologySubfield · 14.1 works · #108 of 211 active here12×
- General PsychologySubfield · 1.2 works · #81 of 123 active here10×
- Small AnimalsSubfield · 13.2 works9.8×
- VirologySubfield · 3.8 works · #121 of 204 active here5.9×
- AgingSubfield · 1.6 works · #80 of 149 active here5.9×
The whole field profile
All 26 fields at once. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 13.2×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Veterinary13.24×20 works
- Immunology and Microbiology4.64×51 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.57×150 works
- Medicine1.56×330 works
- Neuroscience1.55×28 works
- Nursing1.38×7 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.28×5 works
- Chemistry1.21×21 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.08×56 works
- Health Professions1.05×30 works
- Engineering1.01×167 works
- Psychology0.97×32 works
- Environmental Science0.94×51 works
- Materials Science0.90×35 works
- Chemical Engineering0.65×2 works
- Decision Sciences0.64×7 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.53×9 works
- Energy0.45×5 works
- Dentistry0.42×2 works
- Computer Science0.31×26 works
- Mathematics0.29×4 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.28×7 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.22×5 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.22×8 works
- Social Sciences0.22×31 works
- Arts and Humanities0.20×6 works
Which fields of science does Saint Kitts and Nevis work in?
In 2022-now, 36% of research in Saint Kitts and Nevis is in Health Sciences, 30% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (30%), Engineering (15%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Life Sciences.
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 26 fields, with their numbers
- Health Sciences38935.5%
- Medicine33030.1%
- Health Professions302.8%
- Veterinary201.8%
- Nursing70.7%
- Dentistry20.2%
- Physical Sciences32529.7%
- Engineering16715.2%
- Environmental Science514.7%
- Materials Science353.2%
- Computer Science262.4%
- Chemistry211.9%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences90.8%
- Physics and Astronomy50.5%
- Energy50.4%
- Mathematics40.3%
- Chemical Engineering20.2%
- Life Sciences29026.5%
- Social Sciences918.3%
Which keywords describe research in Saint Kitts and Nevis?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Oxidative Stress, Inflammation, Cancer, Biomedical Applications, Public Health, Biomarkers and Pathogenesis.
- Host-Pathogen Interactions
- Aquatic Environment
- Soft Robotics
- Neuroprotective Effects
- Coal Permeability
- CO2 Sequestration
- Biogenesis
- Innate Immunity
- Tumor Microenvironment
- Resilience
- Invasive Species
- Immunity
- Risk Factors
- Immune Response
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Pathogenesis
- Diagnosis
- Public Health
- Cancer
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Oxidative Stress
- Biomedical Applications
- Biomarkers
- Treatment
- Biodiversity
- Gene Expression
- Immunotherapy
- Cancer Therapy
- Metabolism
- Drug Delivery
- Pharmacokinetics
- Pore Structure
- Metastasis
- Neuroinflammation
- Molecular Phylogeny
- Coalbed Methane
- MicroRNA
- Therapeutics
- Zoonotic Transmission
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
- Epidemiology83▲ 1.89×118 topics
- Inflammation50▲ 2.1×79 topics
- Oxidative Stress50▲ 2.8×57 topics
- Cancer41▲ 2.8×53 topics
- Biomedical Applications32▲ 2.5×30 topics
- Public Health31▲ 1.94×44 topics
- Biomarkers22▲ 2.9×17 topics
- Diagnosis21▲ 2.0×39 topics
- Treatment20▲ 1.49×48 topics
- Pathogenesis20▲ 3.5×24 topics
- Biodiversity19▲ 2.3×21 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome19▲ 2.2×21 topics
- Gene Expression19▲ 2.7×17 topics
- Immune Response19▲ 3.0×21 topics
- Immunotherapy18▲ 2.3×19 topics
- Risk Factors18▲ 1.48×30 topics
- Cancer Therapy16▲ 2.6×19 topics
- Immunity15▲ 3.4×10 topics
- Metabolism14▲ 2.5×25 topics
- Invasive Species14▲ 2.9×14 topics
- Drug Delivery13▲ 2.2×14 topics
- Resilience13▲ 2.4×13 topics
- Pharmacokinetics13▲ 4.3×13 topics
- Tumor Microenvironment13▲ 2.6×8 topics
- Pore Structure12▲ 9.1×2 topics
- Innate Immunity12▲ 3.3×11 topics
- Metastasis12▲ 3.1×12 topics
- Biogenesis11▲ 6.1×3 topics
- Neuroinflammation11▲ 3.4×6 topics
- CO2 Sequestration10▲ 4.9×3 topics
- Molecular Phylogeny10▲ 5.8×10 topics
- Coal Permeability10▲ 41×1 topic
- Coalbed Methane10▲ 41×1 topic
- Neuroprotective Effects9▲ 5.2×7 topics
- MicroRNA8▲ 6.4×2 topics
- Soft Robotics8▲ 9.9×2 topics
- Therapeutics8▲ 6.7×2 topics
- Aquatic Environment8▲ 8.4×2 topics
- Zoonotic Transmission7▲ 8.9×4 topics
- Host-Pathogen Interactions7▲ 7.8×4 topics
Which research topics does Saint Kitts and Nevis publish the most in?
Its largest topics in 2022-now are Coal Properties and Utilization, MicroRNA in disease regulation, Veterinary Equine Medical Research.
Area is fractional works in 2022-now; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to. Every tile is a topic page.
- 1 Coal Properties and Utilization Ocean Engineering 10 works
- 2 MicroRNA in disease regulation Cancer Research 7 works
- 3 Veterinary Equine Medical Research Equine 7 works
- 4 Parasite Biology and Host Interactions Ecology 6 works
- 5 Soft Robotics and Applications Biomedical Engineering 5 works
- 6 Veterinary Practice and Education Studies Speech and Hearing 5 works
- 7 Reproductive Physiology in Livestock Agronomy and Crop Science 5 works
- 8 Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis Materials Chemistry 5 works
- 9 Computational Drug Discovery Methods Computational Theory and Mathematics 5 works
- 10 Immune cells in cancer Immunology 4 works
- 11 Immunotherapy and Immune Responses Immunology 4 works
- 12 Gut microbiota and health Molecular Biology 4 works
Which universities in Saint Kitts and Nevis lead research?
Ministry of Education, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and University of Medicine and Health Sciences rank highest in Saint Kitts and Nevis on research quality in 2022-now.
One dot per institution in the list below. The upper left is the interesting corner.
- 1Ministry of EducationGovernment institution · Basseterre · #3,071 worldwide15.3% top 10% · 435 works
- 2Ross University School of Veterinary MedicineUniversity · Basseterre · #13,963 worldwide8.6% top 10% · 185 works
- 3University of Medicine and Health SciencesUniversity · Basseterre · #14,047 worldwide7.8% top 10% · 159 works
- 4Medical University of the AmericasUniversity · Charlestown · #20,697 worldwide5.1% top 10% · 65 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 Saint Kitts and NevisWho are the top researchers in Saint Kitts and Nevis?
Arve Lee Willingham, Chaoqun Yao and Patrick John Kelly rank highest among researchers based in Saint Kitts and Nevis.
- 1 Arve Lee Willingham #663,275 worldwide 3.8k citations · 86 works
- 2 Chaoqun Yao #1,978,859 worldwide 2.1k citations · 102 works
- 3 Patrick John Kelly #1,995,600 worldwide 5.1k citations · 137 works
- 4 Aspinas Chapwanya #2,209,484 worldwide 1.8k citations · 63 works
- 5 Shalini Ramdeo #2,527,999 worldwide 151 citations · 57 works
- 6 Luis Pablo Hervé-Claude #2,739,014 worldwide 321 citations · 47 works
- 7 Livingston Stone #3,041,867 worldwide 46 citations · 18 works
- 8 Amy Beierschmitt #3,191,443 worldwide 847 citations · 49 works
- 9 Mark Freeman #3,287,160 worldwide 5.5k citations · 371 works
- 10 Kanae Shiokawa #3,418,293 worldwide 464 citations · 21 works
How open and international is Saint Kitts and Nevis's research?
49% of its research is openly available (world: 40%), and 71% is written with international co-authors (world: 18%).
World: 40% of research is openly available.
World: 18% is written across borders.
In 2022-now, 52% of its research is openly available (world 63%) and 77% is written with co-authors abroad (world 22%). Against what its own mix of topics predicts, that is 0.86× the expected open access and 2.54× the expected international share, which puts it #128 of 173 countries on openness.
How has Saint Kitts and Nevis's research grown?
Output in 2022-2025 was 84% higher than in 2018-2021.
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 Saint Kitts and Nevis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0042% in 2024.
Fractional works of Saint Kitts and Nevis 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, 9.9% of its 2.2k works since 1964 reached the world top 10% for their field and year.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 12.4% in 2025.
Which countries have research most like Saint Kitts and Nevis'?
Sudan is Saint Kitts and Nevis' closest research twin: of all countries, its research is spread across the fields most like Saint Kitts and Nevis', with both strong in Veterinary.
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SudanBoth strong in Veterinary, Immunology and Microbiology, Medicine 0.63 Compare
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GrenadaBoth strong in Veterinary, Immunology and Microbiology, Medicine 0.62 Compare
- 3
Puerto RicoBoth strong in Immunology and Microbiology, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine 0.54 Compare
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EthiopiaBoth strong in Veterinary, Immunology and Microbiology, Nursing 0.54 Compare
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EgyptBoth strong in Veterinary, Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology 0.54 Compare
Similarity is the correlation of each side's location quotients across every field it publishes in, on a log scale: 1 is the same shape of research, 0 is unrelated. It ignores size. How it is measured.
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