Research in Dar es Salaam
Science Explorer records 71 research institutions in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Dar es Salaam, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences and Open University of Tanzania.
- Research institutions
- 71 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 30k ▲ 66% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 16.3% record average 16.5%
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Which research institutions are in Dar es Salaam?
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. 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.
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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 Parasitology (5.4× the world share in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology).
- Applied Microbiology and BiotechnologySubfield · 20.3 works5.4×
- AnthropologySubfield · 106.1 works5.0×
- ParasitologySubfield · 39.7 works5.0×
- Linguistics and LanguageSubfield · 43.1 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.
Which keywords describe research in Dar es Salaam?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Poverty Reduction, Climate Change, Social Capital, Sustainability, Maternal Mortality, Community Health Workers and Antiretroviral Therapy.
- Mortality Rates
- Financial Inclusion
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition
- School Subsidies
- Primary Education
- Vulnerability
- Social Networks
- Child Mortality
- Child Development
- Gender Inequality
- Gender Equality
- Health Inequalities
- Community Health Workers
- Economic Growth
- Risk Management
- Poverty Reduction
- Public Health
- Sustainable Development
- Globalization
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Environmental Impact
- Social Capital
- Supply Chain Management
- Renewable Energy
- Economic Development
- Maternal Mortality
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Rural Development
- Smallholder Farmers
- Socio-economic Factors
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Health Systems
- Poverty Alleviation
- Land Tenure
- Conditional Cash Transfers
- Empowerment
- Water Sanitation Hygiene
- Microfinance
Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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
- Epidemiology433▲ 1.45×129 topics
- Climate Change361▲ 1.78×91 topics
- Sustainability329▲ 1.79×88 topics
- Globalization234▲ 1.58×93 topics
- Environmental Impact212▲ 1.66×60 topics
- Sustainable Development196▲ 1.63×69 topics
- Social Capital194▲ 4.9×16 topics
- Public Health174▲ 1.58×59 topics
- Supply Chain Management172▲ 2.5×24 topics
- Poverty Reduction169▲ 17×5 topics
- Renewable Energy167▲ 1.54×41 topics
- Risk Management151▲ 4.2×15 topics
- Economic Development142▲ 2.3×29 topics
- Economic Growth134▲ 2.1×26 topics
- Maternal Mortality133▲ 7.9×5 topics
- Community Health Workers124▲ 19×2 topics
- Antiretroviral Therapy115▲ 9.4×6 topics
- Health Inequalities109▲ 12×5 topics
- Rural Development109▲ 4.1×17 topics
- Gender Equality108▲ 5.2×14 topics
- Smallholder Farmers106▲ 6.3×6 topics
- Gender Inequality105▲ 10×7 topics
- Socio-economic Factors105▲ 12×3 topics
- Child Development104▲ 3.3×8 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture104▲ 4.3×14 topics
- Child Mortality104▲ 20×1 topic
- Health Systems104▲ 20×1 topic
- Social Networks102▲ 5.0×10 topics
- Poverty Alleviation95▲ 13×3 topics
- Vulnerability91▲ 5.3×6 topics
- Land Tenure77▲ 24×2 topics
- Primary Education75▲ 24×2 topics
- Conditional Cash Transfers75▲ 27×1 topic
- School Subsidies75▲ 27×1 topic
- Empowerment74▲ 10×5 topics
- Maternal and Child Undernutrition71▲ 11×1 topic
- Water Sanitation Hygiene71▲ 11×1 topic
- Financial Inclusion71▲ 19×1 topic
- Microfinance71▲ 19×1 topic
- Mortality Rates69▲ 9.7×2 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
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