Research in Dar es Salaam
Science Explorer records 68 research institutions in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Dar es Salaam, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences and College of Business Education.
- Research institutions
- 68 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 30k ▲ 64% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 525k 17.6 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 16.3% 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 Dar es Salaam?
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 Dar es Salaam work in?
In 2022-now, 38% of research in Dar es Salaam is in Social Sciences, 26% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (21%), Social Sciences (20%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (8%). It does 1.5× 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 Sciences3,36938.1%
- Social Sciences1,74219.7%
- Business, Management and Accounting6507.3%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance3644.1%
- Psychology2452.8%
- Arts and Humanities1882.1%
- Decision Sciences1802.0%
- Health Sciences2,32526.3%
- Medicine1,85120.9%
- Health Professions3163.6%
- Nursing1131.3%
- Dentistry320.4%
- Veterinary130.1%
- Physical Sciences2,02722.9%
- Environmental Science6977.9%
- Engineering6006.8%
- Computer Science3744.2%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences981.1%
- Materials Science770.9%
- Mathematics680.8%
- Energy540.6%
- Physics and Astronomy250.3%
- Chemistry250.3%
- Chemical Engineering100.1%
- Life Sciences1,12812.7%
What is Dar es Salaam strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Dar es Salaam is most concentrated in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Anthropology and Linguistics and Language (5.4× the world share in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology).
- Applied Microbiology and BiotechnologySubfield · 20.3 works5.4×
- AnthropologySubfield · 106.1 works5.0×
- Linguistics and LanguageSubfield · 43.1 works5.0×
- ParasitologySubfield · 39.7 works5.0×
- VirologySubfield · 21.3 works4.9×
- Safety ResearchSubfield · 98.2 works4.7×
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: Nursing, 2.5×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Nursing2.55×94 works
- Business, Management and Accounting2.37×575 works
- Decision Sciences2.14×156 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.99×321 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.66×594 works
- Environmental Science1.58×591 works
- Social Sciences1.56×1,493 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.45×110 works
- Health Professions1.38×274 works
- Medicine1.04×1,515 works
- Veterinary1.03×11 works
- Psychology0.89×206 works
- Arts and Humanities0.76×166 works
- Dentistry0.74×27 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.72×85 works
- Mathematics0.71×63 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.70×19 works
- Energy0.63×44 works
- Computer Science0.55×324 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.49×198 works
- Engineering0.47×534 works
- Chemical Engineering0.28×7 works
- Materials Science0.25×65 works
- Neuroscience0.24×30 works
- Chemistry0.19×23 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.13×22 works
Which keywords describe research in Dar es Salaam?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Climate Change, Poverty Reduction, Sustainability, Social Capital, Maternal Mortality, Community Health Workers and Antiretroviral Therapy.
- Agricultural Innovation
- Financial Inclusion
- Water Sanitation Hygiene
- School Subsidies
- Primary Education
- Land Tenure
- Vulnerability
- Gender Inequality
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Gender Equality
- Child Mortality
- Health Inequalities
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Economic Development
- Risk Management
- Poverty Reduction
- Public Health
- Sustainable Development
- Globalization
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Environmental Impact
- Social Capital
- Renewable Energy
- Supply Chain Management
- Maternal Mortality
- Community Health Workers
- Rural Development
- Socio-economic Factors
- Health Systems
- Smallholder Farmers
- Child Development
- Social Networks
- Poverty Alleviation
- Empowerment
- Conditional Cash Transfers
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition
- Mortality Rates
- Microfinance
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
- Epidemiology503▲ 1.43×132 topics
- Climate Change428▲ 1.78×97 topics
- Sustainability394▲ 1.82×93 topics
- Globalization269▲ 1.55×104 topics
- Environmental Impact254▲ 1.68×62 topics
- Sustainable Development231▲ 1.67×75 topics
- Social Capital220▲ 4.8×17 topics
- Public Health200▲ 1.55×65 topics
- Renewable Energy194▲ 1.52×44 topics
- Poverty Reduction190▲ 17×5 topics
- Supply Chain Management188▲ 2.4×24 topics
- Risk Management166▲ 4.0×16 topics
- Maternal Mortality160▲ 8.1×5 topics
- Economic Development159▲ 2.2×29 topics
- Community Health Workers149▲ 19×2 topics
- Antiretroviral Therapy140▲ 9.7×6 topics
- Rural Development132▲ 4.3×17 topics
- Health Inequalities131▲ 12×5 topics
- Socio-economic Factors127▲ 13×3 topics
- Child Mortality126▲ 20×1 topic
- Health Systems126▲ 20×1 topic
- Gender Equality125▲ 5.0×14 topics
- Smallholder Farmers124▲ 6.7×6 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture124▲ 4.5×14 topics
- Child Development124▲ 3.4×8 topics
- Gender Inequality122▲ 9.9×7 topics
- Social Networks120▲ 5.0×10 topics
- Vulnerability109▲ 5.3×7 topics
- Poverty Alleviation106▲ 13×3 topics
- Land Tenure88▲ 24×2 topics
- Empowerment86▲ 10.0×5 topics
- Primary Education84▲ 24×2 topics
- Conditional Cash Transfers84▲ 27×1 topic
- School Subsidies84▲ 27×1 topic
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition82▲ 11×1 topic
- Water Sanitation Hygiene82▲ 11×1 topic
- Mortality Rates82▲ 9.7×2 topics
- Financial Inclusion81▲ 18×1 topic
- Microfinance81▲ 18×1 topic
- Agricultural Innovation78▲ 19×2 topics
What research is done in Dar es Salaam?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 104 works
- 2 Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Safety Research 75 works
- 3 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 71 works
- 4 Microfinance and Financial Inclusion Economics and Econometrics 71 works
- 5 Agricultural Innovations and Practices General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 62 works
- 6 Urban and Rural Development Challenges Urban Studies 60 works
- 7 Islamic Finance and Banking Studies Accounting 57 works
- 8 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 56 works
- 9 Technology Adoption and User Behaviour Information Systems and Management 56 works
- 10 Energy and Environment Impacts Pollution 52 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 25.1% in 2016.
Discussion
Ask a question or share a note about Dar es Salaam. Posts are plain text and can be reported.