Research in Accra
Science Explorer records 80 research institutions in Accra, Ghana. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Ghana, University of Professional Studies and Ghana Health Service.
- Research institutions
- 80 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 38k ▲ 29% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 509k 13.3 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 22.4% all institutions 10.0%
- Active span
- 1950-2026 77 years on the record
A city carries no overall standing here. The quality score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.
Which research institutions are in Accra?
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.
How concentrated the city is
The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Accra work in?
In 2022-now, 43% of research in Accra is in Social Sciences, 24% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (20%), Medicine (18%), Business, Management and Accounting (9%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Social 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 city does than the world.
Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
- Social Sciences5,34742.6%
- Social Sciences2,50220.0%
- Business, Management and Accounting1,1228.9%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance7826.2%
- Psychology4233.4%
- Arts and Humanities3092.5%
- Decision Sciences2101.7%
- Health Sciences3,00424.0%
- Medicine2,29218.3%
- Health Professions5014.0%
- Nursing1731.4%
- Dentistry230.2%
- Veterinary150.1%
- Physical Sciences2,64521.1%
- Environmental Science7746.2%
- Computer Science7726.2%
- Engineering5924.7%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1100.9%
- Mathematics1040.8%
- Materials Science890.7%
- Energy770.6%
- Physics and Astronomy690.6%
- Chemistry510.4%
- Chemical Engineering60.1%
- Life Sciences1,54312.3%
What is Accra strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Accra is most concentrated in Library and Information Sciences, Horticulture and Business and International Management (56.6× the world share in Library and Information Sciences).
- Library and Information SciencesSubfield · 115.5 works57×
- HorticultureSubfield · 25.7 works18×
- Business and International ManagementSubfield · 61.9 works5.5×
- ParasitologySubfield · 53.4 works4.7×
- DevelopmentSubfield · 49.5 works4.6×
- Applied Microbiology and BiotechnologySubfield · 21.7 works4.1×
- AccountingSubfield · 265.8 works4.1×
- Safety ResearchSubfield · 113.9 works3.9×
Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.
The whole field profile
All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 3.2×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance3.17×725 works
- Business, Management and Accounting2.85×982 works
- Nursing2.71×142 works
- Decision Sciences1.77×183 works
- Social Sciences1.60×2,159 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.59×807 works
- Health Professions1.51×424 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.31×141 works
- Environmental Science1.23×654 works
- Psychology1.07×348 works
- Medicine0.94×1,920 works
- Arts and Humanities0.87×267 works
- Veterinary0.83×12 works
- Computer Science0.77×639 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.74×28 works
- Energy0.68×67 works
- Mathematics0.64×80 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.53×88 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.48×276 works
- Dentistry0.37×19 works
- Engineering0.31×499 works
- Neuroscience0.29×50 works
- Chemistry0.26×44 works
- Materials Science0.20×73 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.20×46 works
- Chemical Engineering0.11×4 works
Which keywords describe research in Accra?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Economic Growth, Maternal Mortality, Social Capital, Poverty Reduction, Globalization, Community Health Workers and Risk Management.
- Inclusive Development
- Knowledge Economy
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition
- Academic Libraries
- ICT
- Institutional Quality
- Gender Equality
- Vaccine Development
- Child Mortality
- Health Inequalities
- Community Health Workers
- Consumer Behavior
- Economic Development
- COVID-19
- Corporate Governance
- Education
- Public Health
- Social Media
- Climate Change
- Sustainability
- Epidemiology
- Globalization
- Economic Growth
- Environmental Impact
- Social Capital
- Sustainable Development
- Risk Management
- Maternal Mortality
- Poverty Reduction
- Governance
- Global Burden
- Socio-economic Factors
- Health Systems
- Social Networks
- Finance
- Vulnerability
- Gender Inequality
- Poverty Alleviation
- Water Sanitation Hygiene
- Mobile Phones
Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city'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
- Epidemiology759▲ 1.52×133 topics
- Sustainability467▲ 1.52×96 topics
- Globalization462▲ 1.87×111 topics
- Climate Change444▲ 1.30×103 topics
- Economic Growth364▲ 3.6×30 topics
- Social Media324▲ 1.87×32 topics
- Environmental Impact310▲ 1.45×62 topics
- Public Health306▲ 1.67×61 topics
- Social Capital305▲ 4.7×21 topics
- Education293▲ 1.36×85 topics
- Sustainable Development290▲ 1.48×77 topics
- Corporate Governance280▲ 3.0×25 topics
- Risk Management264▲ 4.4×16 topics
- COVID-19263▲ 1.62×28 topics
- Maternal Mortality244▲ 8.7×5 topics
- Economic Development242▲ 2.4×41 topics
- Poverty Reduction233▲ 14×6 topics
- Consumer Behavior212▲ 2.7×18 topics
- Governance212▲ 5.2×15 topics
- Community Health Workers210▲ 19×2 topics
- Global Burden201▲ 2.9×12 topics
- Health Inequalities196▲ 13×4 topics
- Socio-economic Factors188▲ 13×3 topics
- Child Mortality188▲ 21×1 topic
- Health Systems188▲ 21×1 topic
- Vaccine Development168▲ 5.2×11 topics
- Social Networks163▲ 4.8×13 topics
- Gender Equality160▲ 4.5×16 topics
- Finance159▲ 6.9×4 topics
- Institutional Quality155▲ 12×3 topics
- Vulnerability151▲ 5.2×8 topics
- ICT148▲ 8.8×4 topics
- Gender Inequality142▲ 8.2×6 topics
- Academic Libraries139▲ 51×3 topics
- Poverty Alleviation128▲ 11×3 topics
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition118▲ 12×1 topic
- Water Sanitation Hygiene118▲ 12×1 topic
- Knowledge Economy118▲ 8.6×7 topics
- Mobile Phones115▲ 20×2 topics
- Inclusive Development114▲ 21×2 topics
What research is done in Accra?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 155 works
- 2 Islamic Finance and Banking Studies Accounting 109 works
- 3 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 98 works
- 4 Economic Growth and Development Information Systems 97 works
- 5 Microfinance and Financial Inclusion Economics and Econometrics 86 works
- 6 Library Science and Information Literacy Library and Information Sciences 80 works
- 7 Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Safety Research 74 works
- 8 COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Economics and Econometrics 64 works
- 9 Malaria Research and Control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 64 works
- 10 Energy and Environment Impacts Pollution 64 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.
How much of it reaches the world top 10%
Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 28.0% in 2017.
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