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Research in Franceville

Science Explorer records 2 research institutions in Franceville, Gabon. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku and Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville.

Research institutions
2
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
929
▲ 31% vs 2018-21
Citations
19k
20.1 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
7.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1978-2026
49 years on the record
Franceville

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Which research institutions are in Franceville?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Université des Sciences et Techniques de MasukuUniversity 479 #15,254
2Centre International de Recherches Médicales de FrancevilleInstitution 450 #21,578

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.

Which fields of science does Franceville work in?

In 2022-now, 33% of research in Franceville is in Health Sciences, 30% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (32%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (16%), Immunology and Microbiology (7%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Health Sciences: 76 fractional works · 33.2% of its workMedicine: 72 fractional works · 31.7% of its workInfectious Diseases: 20 fractional works · 8.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 19 fractional works · 8.4% of its workEpidemiology: 10 fractional works · 4.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHepatology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmall Animals: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 67 fractional works · 29.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 17 fractional works · 7.4% of its workEcology: 5 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 16 fractional works · 7.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 11 fractional works · 4.9% of its workStatistics and Probability: 6 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGeometry and Topology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workApplied Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNumerical Analysis: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workModeling and Simulation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematical Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workComputer Science: 7 fractional works · 3.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 6 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 4 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPaleontology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 67 fractional works · 29.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 35 fractional works · 15.5% of its workPlant Science: 11 fractional works · 5.0% of its workForestry: 6 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 6 fractional works · 2.6% of its workFood Science: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInsect Science: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHorticulture: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSoil Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 17 fractional works · 7.5% of its workParasitology: 10 fractional works · 4.4% of its workImmunology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMicrobiology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workVirology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 14 fractional works · 6.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMolecular Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEndocrinology: 3 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 18 fractional works · 7.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 3.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 5 fractional works · 2.3% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKFranceville227fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences29%Physical Sciences30%Health Sciences33%Social Sciences8%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine7231.7%
    2. Health Professions10.6%
    3. Nursing10.5%
    4. Veterinary10.4%
    1. Environmental Science177.4%
    2. Engineering167.1%
    3. Mathematics114.9%
    4. Computer Science73.1%
    5. Physics and Astronomy62.4%
    6. Materials Science41.7%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences41.6%
    8. Chemistry31.2%
    9. Energy10.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences3515.5%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology177.5%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology146.0%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.4%
    1. Social Sciences73.3%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance31.5%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting21.1%
    4. Psychology21.0%
    5. Arts and Humanities10.5%
    6. Decision Sciences10.4%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Which keywords describe research in Franceville?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Vaccine Development, Immune Response, Helminth Infections, Global Burden, Vaccine, Smallholder Farmers and Insecticide Resistance.

▲ 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 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
  1. Epidemiology47▲ 5.2×51 topics
  2. Vaccine Development17▲ 29×10 topics
  3. Immune Response13▲ 10×16 topics
  4. Public Health12▲ 3.5×23 topics
  5. Helminth Infections11▲ 117×2 topics
  6. Climate Change10▲ 1.65×31 topics
  7. Global Burden10▲ 8.2×5 topics
  8. Vaccine10▲ 11×10 topics
  9. Smallholder Farmers9▲ 20×4 topics
  10. Insecticide Resistance9▲ 49×4 topics
  11. Pathogenesis9▲ 7.4×11 topics
  12. Vector Control8▲ 30×4 topics
  13. Genome Sequence8▲ 40×2 topics
  14. Agroforestry7▲ 47×3 topics
  15. Artemisinin Resistance7▲ 95×1 topic
  16. Biodiversity Conservation7▲ 8.3×6 topics
  17. Plasmodium falciparum7▲ 95×1 topic
  18. Antibiotic Resistance7▲ 7.8×7 topics
  19. Global Epidemiology7▲ 70×2 topics
  20. Zoonotic Infections7▲ 57×2 topics
  21. Diagnosis7▲ 3.2×15 topics
  22. Sustainable Agriculture6▲ 9.2×4 topics
  23. Ivermectin6▲ 97×2 topics
  24. Biodiversity6▲ 3.6×13 topics
  25. Climate Resilience6▲ 44×2 topics
  26. Genetic Diversity6▲ 6.1×11 topics
  27. Nutritional Value6▲ 24×3 topics
  28. Disease Burden6▲ 34×2 topics
  29. Arboviral Diseases6▲ 38×1 topic
  30. Indigenous Fruits6▲ 107×1 topic
  31. Schistosomiasis6▲ 87×1 topic
  32. Soil-Transmitted Helminths6▲ 87×1 topic
  33. Tree Domestication6▲ 107×1 topic
  34. Zika Virus6▲ 38×1 topic
  35. Medicinal Plants6▲ 6.2×7 topics
  36. Lymphatic Filariasis5▲ 182×1 topic
  37. Onchocerciasis5▲ 182×1 topic
  38. SARS-CoV-25▲ 6.9×3 topics
  39. Drug Resistance5▲ 7.1×6 topics
  40. Pathogen Transmission4▲ 26×3 topics

What research is done in Franceville?

Malaria Research and Control: 6 fractional worksAfrican Botany and Ecology Studies: 5 fractional worksParasites and Host Inter…5Parasites and Host Interactions: 5 fractional worksParasitic Diseases Resea…4Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment: 4 fractional worksMosquito-borne diseases and control: 4 fractional worksAgriculture and Rural Development Research: 3 fractional worksStatistical Methods and …3Statistical Methods and Inference: 3 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 2 fractional worksVector-borne infectious diseases: 2 fractional worksAntibiotic Resistance in Bacteria: 2 fractional works
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthForestryParasitologyInfectious Diseases3 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Malaria Research and Control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 6 works
  2. 2 African Botany and Ecology Studies Forestry 5 works
  3. 3 Parasites and Host Interactions Parasitology 5 works
  4. 4 Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment Infectious Diseases 4 works
  5. 5 Mosquito-borne diseases and control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 4 works
  6. 6 Agriculture and Rural Development Research Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 3 works
  7. 7 Statistical Methods and Inference Statistics and Probability 3 works
  8. 8 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 2 works
  9. 9 Vector-borne infectious diseases Parasitology 2 works
  10. 10 Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Molecular Medicine 2 works

Research output over time

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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.

still counting10%20%30%all institutions10.0% in 2025Franceville5.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 25.6% in 2011.

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