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Research in Kakamega

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Kakamega, Kenya. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
2k
▲ 80% vs 2018-21
Citations
6.2k
3.1 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
7.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1970-2026
57 years on the record
Kakamega

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 Kakamega?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Masinde Muliro University of Science and TechnologyUniversity 2,029 #6,974

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 Kakamega work in?

In 2022-now, 57% of research in Kakamega is in Social Sciences, 17% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (28%), Medicine (12%), Business, Management and Accounting (12%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 651 fractional works · 56.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 321 fractional works · 27.9% of its workEducation: 101 fractional works · 8.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 83 fractional works · 7.2% of its workSafety Research: 36 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 24 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAnthropology: 12 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCommunication: 10 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGender Studies: 9 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLinguistics and Language: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workUrban Studies: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopment: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDemography: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Administration: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLaw: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 136 fractional works · 11.8% of its workAccounting: 41 fractional works · 3.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 38 fractional works · 3.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 21 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement Information Systems: 20 fractional works · 1.7% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness and International Management: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMarketing: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 73 fractional works · 6.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 52 fractional works · 4.5% of its workFinance: 16 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 56 fractional works · 4.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 22 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 15 fractional works · 1.3% of its workApplied Psychology: 10 fractional works · 0.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 40 fractional works · 3.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 14 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 14 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPhilosophy: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReligious studies: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 26 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 20 fractional works · 1.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 196 fractional works · 17.0% of its workMedicine: 137 fractional works · 11.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 29 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 23 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEpidemiology: 15 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 13 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEmergency Medicine: 9 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSurgery: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHematology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 44 fractional works · 3.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 27 fractional works · 2.3% of its workHealth Information Management: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOccupational Therapy: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 14 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 13 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 191 fractional works · 16.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 62 fractional works · 5.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 14 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 12 fractional works · 1.0% of its workWater Science and Technology: 10 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcology: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 45 fractional works · 3.9% of its workInformation Systems: 21 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 9 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 40 fractional works · 3.5% of its workMedia Technology: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOcean Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMathematics: 24 fractional works · 2.1% of its workModeling and Simulation: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAlgebra and Number Theory: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeometry and Topology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematical Physics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 110 fractional works · 9.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 78 fractional works · 6.8% of its workPlant Science: 24 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSoil Science: 15 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 12 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 12 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInsect Science: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 22 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 10 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGenetics: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workParasitology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKKakamega1,149fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences17%Health Sciences17%Social Sciences57%

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. Social Sciences32127.9%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting13611.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance736.3%
    4. Psychology564.9%
    5. Arts and Humanities403.5%
    6. Decision Sciences262.2%
    1. Medicine13711.9%
    2. Health Professions443.8%
    3. Nursing141.2%
    4. Dentistry10.1%
    5. Veterinary10.0%
    1. Environmental Science625.4%
    2. Computer Science453.9%
    3. Engineering403.5%
    4. Mathematics242.1%
    5. Energy50.4%
    6. Materials Science50.4%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences40.3%
    8. Physics and Astronomy40.3%
    9. Chemistry20.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences786.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology222.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology80.7%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.1%
    5. Neuroscience10.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Kakamega strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Kakamega is most concentrated in Safety Research and Accounting (11.6× the world share in Safety Research).

  1. Safety ResearchSubfield · 33.8 works12×
  2. AccountingSubfield · 38.8 works6.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1.44× its world share, 72 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.36× its world share, 20 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.62× its world share, 6 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.31× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.13× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.51× its world share, 42 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.22× its world share, 4 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.41× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.24× its world share, 38 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.07× its world share, 56 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 4 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.90× its world share, 24 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.13× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.48× its world share, 41 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.61× its world share, 123 worksMedicineNursing: 2.64× its world share, 14 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.10× its world share, 33 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3.66× its world share, 124 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.19× its world share, 22 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.14× its world share, 71 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.65× its world share, 53 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.20× its world share, 293 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 3.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting3.66×124 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3.14×71 works
  3. Nursing2.64×14 works
  4. Social Sciences2.20×293 works
  5. Decision Sciences2.19×22 works
  6. Mathematics1.90×24 works
  7. Psychology1.65×53 works
  8. Health Professions1.48×41 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.44×72 works
  10. Arts and Humanities1.10×33 works
  11. Environmental Science1.07×56 works
  12. Immunology and Microbiology0.62×6 works
  13. Medicine0.61×123 works
  14. Computer Science0.51×42 works
  15. Energy0.41×4 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.36×20 works
  17. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.31×1 works
  18. Veterinary0.29×0 works
  19. Engineering0.24×38 works
  20. Dentistry0.23×1 works
  21. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.22×4 works
  22. Chemical Engineering0.20×1 works
  23. Chemistry0.13×2 works
  24. Physics and Astronomy0.13×3 works
  25. Materials Science0.10×4 works
  26. Neuroscience0.03×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Kakamega?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Poverty Reduction, Leadership, Gender Inequality, Innovation, Conditional Cash Transfers, School Subsidies, Corporate Governance and Vulnerability.

▲ 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. Climate Change55▲ 1.75×43 topics
  2. Poverty Reduction52▲ 35×5 topics
  3. Sustainability50▲ 1.77×35 topics
  4. Epidemiology48◆ 1.05×55 topics
  5. Innovation47▲ 3.9×20 topics
  6. Globalization46▲ 2.0×42 topics
  7. Corporate Governance39▲ 4.6×15 topics
  8. Leadership39▲ 6.9×16 topics
  9. Education38▲ 1.92×29 topics
  10. Economic Growth36▲ 3.9×17 topics
  11. Gender Inequality36▲ 23×5 topics
  12. Social Capital32▲ 5.4×11 topics
  13. Mental Health32▲ 1.93×22 topics
  14. Conditional Cash Transfers31▲ 77×1 topic
  15. School Subsidies31▲ 77×1 topic
  16. Risk Management30▲ 5.6×10 topics
  17. Development28▲ 6.8×9 topics
  18. Vulnerability27▲ 10×6 topics
  19. Supply Chain Management27▲ 2.6×12 topics
  20. Gender Equality26▲ 7.9×7 topics
  21. Economic Development24▲ 2.6×13 topics
  22. Community Health Workers23▲ 22×2 topics
  23. Child Development22▲ 4.8×7 topics
  24. Higher Education22▲ 3.7×13 topics
  25. Poverty22▲ 21×5 topics
  26. Social Networks21▲ 6.9×7 topics
  27. Food Security21▲ 3.4×10 topics
  28. Performance Measurement21▲ 6.7×6 topics
  29. Maternal Mortality20▲ 7.7×5 topics
  30. Agriculture19▲ 4.4×5 topics
  31. Socio-economic Factors19▲ 15×2 topics
  32. Entrepreneurship18▲ 4.1×8 topics
  33. Health Inequalities18▲ 13×2 topics
  34. Adaptation18▲ 5.4×5 topics
  35. Child Mortality18▲ 22×1 topic
  36. Health Systems18▲ 22×1 topic
  37. Rural Development17▲ 4.4×8 topics
  38. Finance16▲ 7.7×3 topics
  39. Insurance16▲ 18×2 topics
  40. Financial Constraints14▲ 12×2 topics

What research is done in Kakamega?

Poverty, Education, and …30Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare: 30 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Child Health: 17 fractional worksChild Nutrition and Water Access: 12 fractional worksMicrofinance and Financial Inclusion: 11 fractional worksPublic Procurement and Policy: 11 fractional worksAgricultural risk and resilience: 11 fractional worksCorporate Finance and Go…9Corporate Finance and Governance: 9 fractional worksHuman Resource Development and Performance Evaluation: 9 fractional worksBusiness Strategies and Management Research: 9 fractional worksIslamic Finance and Banking Studies: 8 fractional works
Safety ResearchPediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthNutrition and DieteticsEconomics and Econometrics5 others

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

  1. 1 Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Safety Research 30 works
  2. 2 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 17 works
  3. 3 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 12 works
  4. 4 Microfinance and Financial Inclusion Economics and Econometrics 11 works
  5. 5 Public Procurement and Policy Strategy and Management 11 works
  6. 6 Agricultural risk and resilience Soil Science 11 works
  7. 7 Corporate Finance and Governance Accounting 9 works
  8. 8 Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation Applied Psychology 9 works
  9. 9 Business Strategies and Management Research Management Science and Operations Research 9 works
  10. 10 Islamic Finance and Banking Studies Accounting 8 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 2025Kakamega5.4% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 21.2% in 2013.

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