Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
City · Nigeria

Research in Ile-Ife

Science Explorer records 4 research institutions in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex.

Research institutions
4
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1.5k
◆ 1% vs 2018-21
Citations
15k
10.1 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
7.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1953-2026
74 years on the record
Ile-Ife

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 Ile-Ife?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals ComplexHospital / health system 1,101 #13,657
2National Center for Technology ManagementGovernment institution 318 #24,161 all time
3Regional Centre for Training in Aerospace SurveysUniversity 56 not ranked
4Nigerian Cardiac SocietyNonprofit 2 not ranked

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.

Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex: 74.5%National Center for Technology Management: 21.5%Regional Centre for Training in Aerospace Surveys: 3.8%Nigerian Cardiac Society: 0.1%75%largest
Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex1,101 · 74.5%National Center for Technology Management318 · 21.5%Regional Centre for Training in Aerospace Surveys56 · 3.8%Nigerian Cardiac Society2 · 0.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which fields of science does Ile-Ife work in?

In 2022-now, 68% of research in Ile-Ife is in Health Sciences, 15% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (57%), Health Professions (6%), Social Sciences (6%). It does 2.9× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 246 fractional works · 67.6% of its workMedicine: 208 fractional works · 57.1% of its workSurgery: 22 fractional works · 5.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 19 fractional works · 5.2% of its workEpidemiology: 16 fractional works · 4.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 15 fractional works · 4.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 15 fractional works · 4.0% of its workInfectious Diseases: 12 fractional works · 3.2% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 11 fractional works · 3.0% of its workOncology: 10 fractional works · 2.8% of its workPhysiology: 7 fractional works · 2.0% of its workRheumatology: 7 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNephrology: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNeurology: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEmergency Medicine: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOphthalmology: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHematology: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workReproductive Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHepatology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDermatology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workUrology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 22 fractional works · 5.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 10 fractional works · 2.8% of its workHealth Information Management: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 11 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPeriodontics: 6 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOral Surgery: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Dentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 55 fractional works · 15.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 21 fractional works · 5.8% of its workEducation: 7 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGender Studies: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workUrban Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 12 fractional works · 3.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 9 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 8 fractional works · 2.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness and International Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 33 fractional works · 9.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 16 fractional works · 4.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCancer Research: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMolecular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPlant Science: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 31 fractional works · 8.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 9 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 2.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Science: 7 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workModeling and Simulation: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKIle-Ife364fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences8%Health Sciences68%Social Sciences15%

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
    1. Medicine20857.1%
    2. Health Professions225.9%
    3. Dentistry113.0%
    4. Nursing51.4%
    5. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Social Sciences215.8%
    2. Psychology123.2%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance92.4%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting82.3%
    5. Decision Sciences41.1%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology164.4%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences61.7%
    3. Neuroscience51.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology41.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.2%
    1. Environmental Science92.5%
    2. Engineering72.1%
    3. Computer Science71.8%
    4. Energy20.6%
    5. Mathematics20.5%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences20.5%
    7. Chemistry10.3%
    8. Physics and Astronomy00.1%
    9. Materials Science00.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Which keywords describe research in Ile-Ife?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Maternal Mortality, Global Burden, Cardiovascular Disease, Quality of Life, Diagnosis and Treatment.

▲ 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. Epidemiology48▲ 3.3×94 topics
  2. Risk Factors19▲ 4.6×30 topics
  3. Quality of Life16▲ 3.1×35 topics
  4. Cardiovascular Disease16▲ 3.8×30 topics
  5. Inflammation15▲ 1.97×45 topics
  6. Maternal Mortality14▲ 18×5 topics
  7. Diagnosis14▲ 4.1×30 topics
  8. Treatment14▲ 3.1×34 topics
  9. Global Burden13▲ 6.6×12 topics
  10. Public Health12▲ 2.4×34 topics
  11. Oxidative Stress12▲ 1.94×28 topics
  12. Management11▲ 3.7×22 topics
  13. COVID-1910▲ 2.0×21 topics
  14. Metabolic Syndrome9▲ 3.2×20 topics
  15. Pathogenesis9▲ 4.7×17 topics
  16. Mental Health8▲ 1.62×23 topics
  17. Immune Response8▲ 4.0×13 topics
  18. Health Inequalities7▲ 16×4 topics
  19. Surgical Management7▲ 5.0×15 topics
  20. Depression7▲ 2.2×14 topics
  21. Child Mortality7▲ 25×1 topic
  22. Community Health Workers7▲ 21×2 topics
  23. Health Systems7▲ 25×1 topic
  24. Prevention7▲ 4.3×12 topics
  25. Mortality6▲ 3.1×11 topics
  26. Medical Education6▲ 5.8×9 topics
  27. Chronic Kidney Disease6▲ 6.0×7 topics
  28. Prenatal Diagnosis6▲ 10×6 topics
  29. Vaccine5▲ 3.6×9 topics
  30. Mortality Rates5▲ 15×2 topics
  31. Pathophysiology5▲ 4.8×8 topics
  32. Surgery5▲ 4.0×8 topics
  33. Cancer Incidence5▲ 9.4×3 topics
  34. Global Health4▲ 8.0×4 topics
  35. Dental Caries4▲ 12×2 topics
  36. Pregnancy4▲ 5.8×9 topics
  37. Surgical Treatment4▲ 5.9×5 topics
  38. Epidemiological Profile4▲ 25×2 topics
  39. ICT4▲ 7.6×4 topics
  40. Nigeria4▲ 47×2 topics

What research is done in Ile-Ife?

Global Maternal and Chil…6Global Maternal and Child Health: 6 fractional worksPregnancy and preeclampsia studies: 3 fractional worksGlobal Cancer Incidence and Screening: 3 fractional worksViral Infections and Outbreaks Research: 2 fractional worksMaternal and fetal healthcare: 2 fractional worksOral microbiology and periodontitis research: 2 fractional worksHemoglobinopathies and R…2Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders: 2 fractional worksChronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes: 2 fractional worksAcute Ischemic Stroke Management: 2 fractional worksGlobal Health and Surgery2Global Health and Surgery: 2 fractional works
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthObstetrics and GynecologyOncologyInfectious Diseases5 others

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

  1. 1 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 6 works
  2. 2 Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies Obstetrics and Gynecology 3 works
  3. 3 Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Oncology 3 works
  4. 4 Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research Infectious Diseases 2 works
  5. 5 Maternal and fetal healthcare Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 2 works
  6. 6 Oral microbiology and periodontitis research Periodontics 2 works
  7. 7 Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders Genetics 2 works
  8. 8 Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes Nephrology 2 works
  9. 9 Acute Ischemic Stroke Management Epidemiology 2 works
  10. 10 Global Health and Surgery Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Ile-Ife8.4% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 14.3% in 2010.

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about Ile-Ife. Posts are plain text and can be reported.