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Research in Masvingo

Science Explorer records 2 research institutions in Masvingo, Zimbabwe. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Great Zimbabwe University.

Research institutions
2
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1.8k
▲ 41% vs 2018-21
Citations
8.9k
4.9 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
19.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1954-2026
73 years on the record
Masvingo

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 Masvingo?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Great Zimbabwe UniversityUniversity 1,618 #5,399
2Reformed Church UniversityUniversity 201 #22,461 all time

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 Masvingo work in?

In 2022-now, 69% of research in Masvingo is in Social Sciences, 11% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (46%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (9%), Arts and Humanities (6%). It does 2.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 470 fractional works · 69.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 309 fractional works · 45.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 116 fractional works · 17.1% of its workEducation: 78 fractional works · 11.6% of its workAnthropology: 21 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 19 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSafety Research: 16 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGender Studies: 10 fractional works · 1.5% of its workUrban Studies: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workDemography: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLaw: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCommunication: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLinguistics and Language: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopment: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 42 fractional works · 6.2% of its workReligious studies: 12 fractional works · 1.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMusic: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workConservation: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhilosophy: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMuseology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 41 fractional works · 6.0% of its workAccounting: 8 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Information Systems: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMarketing: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBusiness and International Management: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 39 fractional works · 5.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 27 fractional works · 4.0% of its workFinance: 8 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 27 fractional works · 4.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 14 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 12 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 8 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 74 fractional works · 11.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 61 fractional works · 9.1% of its workPlant Science: 15 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSoil Science: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 9 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 5 fractional works · 0.8% of its workFood Science: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 5 fractional works · 0.7% of its workForestry: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workParasitology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 74 fractional works · 11.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 34 fractional works · 5.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 8 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 6 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcology: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPollution: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 19 fractional works · 2.8% of its workInformation Systems: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science Applications: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 11 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMathematics: 6 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistics and Probability: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workModeling and Simulation: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 59 fractional works · 8.7% of its workMedicine: 29 fractional works · 4.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 7 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInfectious Diseases: 4 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 25 fractional works · 3.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 20 fractional works · 2.9% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmall Animals: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKMasvingo676fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences11%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences69%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences30945.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities426.2%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting416.0%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance395.8%
    5. Psychology274.0%
    6. Decision Sciences121.8%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences619.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology71.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology30.5%
    4. Neuroscience20.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.1%
    1. Environmental Science345.0%
    2. Computer Science192.8%
    3. Engineering111.6%
    4. Mathematics60.9%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences30.4%
    6. Physics and Astronomy10.1%
    7. Energy10.1%
    8. Chemistry00.0%
    1. Medicine294.3%
    2. Health Professions253.6%
    3. Nursing30.5%
    4. Veterinary10.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Masvingo strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Masvingo is most concentrated in Anthropology (12.3× the world share in Anthropology).

  1. AnthropologySubfield · 20.2 works12×
← 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 25 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: 1.94× its world share, 54 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.19× its world share, 6 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.51× its world share, 3 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.34× its world share, 16 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.32× its world share, 3 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.11× its world share, 10 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.04× its world share, 30 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.79× its world share, 5 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.46× its world share, 22 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.23× its world share, 26 worksMedicineNursing: 1.13× its world share, 3 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.55× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 2.00× its world share, 34 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.73× its world share, 33 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.38× its world share, 8 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.85× its world share, 36 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.36× its world share, 24 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.60× its world share, 266 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Social Sciences, 3.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Social Sciences3.60×266 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.85×36 works
  3. Arts and Humanities2.00×34 works
  4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.94×54 works
  5. Business, Management and Accounting1.73×33 works
  6. Veterinary1.55×1 works
  7. Health Professions1.46×22 works
  8. Decision Sciences1.38×8 works
  9. Psychology1.36×24 works
  10. Nursing1.13×3 works
  11. Environmental Science1.04×30 works
  12. Mathematics0.79×5 works
  13. Immunology and Microbiology0.51×3 works
  14. Computer Science0.34×16 works
  15. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.32×3 works
  16. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.27×0 works
  17. Neuroscience0.24×2 works
  18. Medicine0.23×26 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.19×6 works
  20. Energy0.12×1 works
  21. Engineering0.11×10 works
  22. Physics and Astronomy0.06×1 works
  23. Chemistry0.02×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Masvingo?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Colonialism, Social Justice, Nationalism, History, Political Economy, Land Reform, Agrarian Relations and Zimbabwe.

▲ 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. Colonialism98▲ 31×10 topics
  2. Social Justice75▲ 19×19 topics
  3. Nationalism73▲ 24×7 topics
  4. History59▲ 12×8 topics
  5. Political Economy59▲ 34×7 topics
  6. Land Reform56▲ 176×2 topics
  7. Agrarian Relations54▲ 863×1 topic
  8. Zimbabwe54▲ 863×1 topic
  9. Globalization44▲ 3.3×48 topics
  10. Sustainability31▲ 1.86×45 topics
  11. Sustainable Development30▲ 2.9×34 topics
  12. Higher Education28▲ 7.8×13 topics
  13. Human Rights26▲ 3.8×22 topics
  14. COVID-1923▲ 2.6×15 topics
  15. Mental Health23▲ 2.3×26 topics
  16. Postcolonialism22▲ 22×4 topics
  17. Decolonization20▲ 36×4 topics
  18. Indigenous Knowledge Systems19▲ 83×2 topics
  19. African Philosophy18▲ 228×1 topic
  20. Ubuntu18▲ 228×1 topic
  21. Social Capital18▲ 5.2×14 topics
  22. Social Impact18▲ 6.9×10 topics
  23. Neoliberalism17▲ 6.9×10 topics
  24. Development16▲ 6.7×11 topics
  25. Poverty Reduction16▲ 18×5 topics
  26. Economic Growth16▲ 2.9×15 topics
  27. Religion16▲ 5.0×14 topics
  28. Cultural Studies15▲ 6.0×8 topics
  29. Technology Integration15▲ 7.0×9 topics
  30. Military History14▲ 75×2 topics
  31. Digital Transformation14▲ 3.8×10 topics
  32. Gender Dynamics14▲ 19×2 topics
  33. African History13▲ 86×1 topic
  34. Post-Colonial Africa13▲ 86×1 topic
  35. Gender Inequality13▲ 14×6 topics
  36. Politics12▲ 6.7×8 topics
  37. Intersectionality11▲ 8.9×8 topics
  38. Lifelong Learning11▲ 8.1×5 topics
  39. South Africa11▲ 58×4 topics
  40. Land Tenure10▲ 35×2 topics

What research is done in Masvingo?

African studies and soci…46African studies and sociopolitical issues: 46 fractional worksAfrican cultural and philosophical studies: 14 fractional worksAfrican history and culture studies: 13 fractional worksCOVID-19 Pandemic Impacts: 8 fractional worksUrban and Rural Developm…7Urban and Rural Development Challenges: 7 fractional worksPoverty, Education, and Child Welfare: 7 fractional worksReligion, Society, and Development: 5 fractional worksAnthropological Studies and Insights: 5 fractional worksAdolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: 4 fractional worksMicrofinance and Financial Inclusion: 4 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceEducationAnthropologyEconomics and Econometrics3 others

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

  1. 1 African studies and sociopolitical issues Sociology and Political Science 46 works
  2. 2 African cultural and philosophical studies Education 14 works
  3. 3 African history and culture studies Anthropology 13 works
  4. 4 COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Economics and Econometrics 8 works
  5. 5 Urban and Rural Development Challenges Urban Studies 7 works
  6. 6 Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Safety Research 7 works
  7. 7 Religion, Society, and Development Sociology and Political Science 5 works
  8. 8 Anthropological Studies and Insights Anthropology 5 works
  9. 9 Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health General Health Professions 4 works
  10. 10 Microfinance and Financial Inclusion Economics and Econometrics 4 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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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%Masvingo14.8% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 22.6% in 2024.

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