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Research in Ifakara

Science Explorer records 2 research institutions in Ifakara, Tanzania. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Ifakara Health Institute and St. Francis Referral Hospital.

Research institutions
2
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
767
▲ 33% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
25.9%
record average 16.5%

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Which research institutions are in Ifakara?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Ifakara Health InstituteNonprofit 633 #8,184
2St. Francis Referral HospitalHospital / health system 134 #25,504

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.

What is Ifakara strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Ifakara is most concentrated in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (12.7× the world share in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health).

  1. Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthSubfield · 38.6 works13×
← less than its size predictsmore →

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 Ifakara?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Vaccine Development, Global Burden, Maternal Mortality, Insecticide Resistance, Genome Sequence, Artemisinin Resistance and Plasmodium falciparum.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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
  1. Epidemiology64▲ 7.0×65 topics
  2. Vaccine Development30▲ 51×9 topics
  3. Global Burden20▲ 16×10 topics
  4. Maternal Mortality18▲ 35×4 topics
  5. Insecticide Resistance17▲ 95×4 topics
  6. Public Health17▲ 5.1×28 topics
  7. Genome Sequence16▲ 81×2 topics
  8. Artemisinin Resistance15▲ 210×1 topic
  9. Plasmodium falciparum15▲ 210×1 topic
  10. Health Inequalities14▲ 52×3 topics
  11. Community Health Workers14▲ 70×2 topics
  12. Child Mortality14▲ 83×1 topic
  13. Health Systems14▲ 83×1 topic
  14. Vector Control13▲ 47×3 topics
  15. Diagnosis12▲ 5.8×19 topics
  16. Immune Response12▲ 8.9×11 topics
  17. Arboviral Diseases11▲ 76×1 topic
  18. Zika Virus11▲ 76×1 topic
  19. Antiretroviral Therapy11▲ 28×6 topics
  20. Vaccine10▲ 11×9 topics
  21. Treatment9▲ 3.2×18 topics
  22. Pathogenesis8▲ 7.2×11 topics
  23. Drug Resistance7▲ 10×7 topics
  24. Genetics6▲ 3.8×11 topics
  25. Infectious Diseases6▲ 8.1×8 topics
  26. Helminth Infections6▲ 64×2 topics
  27. Global Health5▲ 15×4 topics
  28. HIV Transmission5▲ 31×2 topics
  29. Viral Load5▲ 29×2 topics
  30. Mortality Rates5▲ 24×2 topics
  31. Preexposure Prophylaxis5▲ 45×1 topic
  32. Stigma and Discrimination5▲ 45×1 topic
  33. Global Burden of Disease5▲ 8.9×4 topics
  34. Health System Reform5▲ 30×2 topics
  35. Transmission4▲ 36×2 topics
  36. HIV4▲ 22×3 topics
  37. Health Financing4▲ 51×1 topic
  38. Universal Coverage4▲ 51×1 topic
  39. Global Impact4▲ 11×3 topics
  40. Maternal and Child Undernutrition4▲ 22×1 topic

What research is done in Ifakara?

  1. 1 Malaria Research and Control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 15 works
  2. 2 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 14 works
  3. 3 Mosquito-borne diseases and control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 11 works
  4. 4 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 5 works
  5. 5 Healthcare Systems and Reforms Finance 4 works
  6. 6 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 4 works
  7. 7 Insect Pest Control Strategies Plant Science 4 works
  8. 8 Parasites and Host Interactions Parasitology 4 works
  9. 9 Global Health and Surgery Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 3 works
  10. 10 Parasitic infections in humans and animals Pathology and Forensic Medicine 3 works

Research output over time

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