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Research in Tafo

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Tafo, Ghana. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
501
▲ 43% vs 2018-21
Citations
7.3k
14.7 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
21.9%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1956-2026
71 years on the record
Tafo

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 Tafo?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Cocoa Research Institute of GhanaResearch facility 501 #19,866

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 Tafo work in?

In 2022-now, 74% of research in Tafo is in Life Sciences, 12% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Agricultural and Biological Sciences (69%), Medicine (10%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%). It does 4.9× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 84 fractional works · 74.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 77 fractional works · 68.5% of its workPlant Science: 26 fractional works · 23.0% of its workHorticulture: 26 fractional works · 22.9% of its workFood Science: 9 fractional works · 8.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 4 fractional works · 3.6% of its workForestry: 4 fractional works · 3.5% of its workInsect Science: 3 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSoil Science: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 fractional works · 5.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 14 fractional works · 12.0% of its workMedicine: 11 fractional works · 10.0% of its workPharmacology: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workSurgery: 3 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 9 fractional works · 8.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 6 fractional works · 5.0% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 6 fractional works · 5.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness and International Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKTafo113fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences74%Physical Sciences8%Health Sciences12%Social Sciences5%

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 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences7768.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology65.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology00.4%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.3%
    1. Medicine1110.0%
    2. Nursing11.3%
    3. Health Professions10.7%
    1. Environmental Science65.0%
    2. Chemistry21.5%
    3. Materials Science11.0%
    4. Engineering00.4%
    5. Mathematics00.2%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.2%
    7. Computer Science00.1%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting22.1%
    2. Social Sciences21.5%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.2%
    4. Psychology00.4%
    5. Arts and Humanities00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Tafo strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Tafo is most concentrated in Horticulture, Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Plant Science (1736.5× the world share in Horticulture).

  1. HorticultureSubfield · 22.4 works1737×
  2. Agricultural and Biological SciencesField · 65.1 works14×
  3. Plant ScienceSubfield · 21.2 works13×
← 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 22 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: 14.27× its world share, 65 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.99× its world share, 5 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.49× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.82× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 1.00× its world share, 2 worksChemistryEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.06× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.55× its world share, 10 worksMedicineNursing: 2.73× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.48× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.49× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 14.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 18 fields, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences14.27×65 works
  2. Nursing2.73×1 works
  3. Environmental Science1.06×5 works
  4. Chemistry1.00×2 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.99×5 works
  6. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.82×0 works
  7. Medicine0.55×10 works
  8. Immunology and Microbiology0.49×0 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.49×1 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.48×2 works
  11. Materials Science0.34×1 works
  12. Health Professions0.30×1 works
  13. Mathematics0.22×0 works
  14. Psychology0.17×0 works
  15. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.11×0 works
  16. Social Sciences0.11×1 works
  17. Arts and Humanities0.04×0 works
  18. Engineering0.02×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Tafo?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Genetic Diversity, Agroforestry, Biodiversity Conservation, Ecosystem Services, Soil Fertility, Disease Resistance, Climate Change Resilience and Cacao.

▲ 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. Genetic Diversity31▲ 63×12 topics
  2. Agroforestry30▲ 394×3 topics
  3. Biodiversity Conservation30▲ 70×6 topics
  4. Ecosystem Services28▲ 64×5 topics
  5. Soil Fertility28▲ 109×4 topics
  6. Disease Resistance26▲ 438×3 topics
  7. Climate Change Resilience26▲ 383×2 topics
  8. Cacao26▲ 1642×1 topic
  9. Cocoa Production26▲ 1642×1 topic
  10. Smallholder Farmers8▲ 34×5 topics
  11. Antioxidant Activity8▲ 11×8 topics
  12. Climate Change8▲ 2.6×14 topics
  13. Drought Tolerance8▲ 50×7 topics
  14. Polyphenols8▲ 37×4 topics
  15. Fermentation6▲ 42×2 topics
  16. Sustainable Agriculture6▲ 18×7 topics
  17. Chocolate6▲ 273×1 topic
  18. Cocoa6▲ 273×1 topic
  19. Climate Resilience5▲ 79×2 topics
  20. Health Effects5▲ 7.2×5 topics
  21. Biodiversity5▲ 5.5×9 topics
  22. Plant Immunity4▲ 36×2 topics
  23. Gene Silencing4▲ 36×1 topic
  24. Genetics4▲ 4.8×4 topics
  25. Viral RNA Silencing4▲ 93×1 topic
  26. Nutritional Value4▲ 28×3 topics
  27. Breeding4▲ 42×5 topics
  28. Genome Sequencing4▲ 20×5 topics
  29. Nutritional Significance3▲ 19×3 topics
  30. Plant Breeding3▲ 32×3 topics
  31. Indigenous Fruits3▲ 118×1 topic
  32. Nutritional Quality3▲ 37×3 topics
  33. Tree Domestication3▲ 118×1 topic
  34. Genetic Improvement3▲ 31×2 topics
  35. Hypercholesterolemia3▲ 63×1 topic
  36. Pathogen Transmission3▲ 37×2 topics
  37. Policosanol3▲ 337×1 topic
  38. Adaptation3▲ 8.7×2 topics
  39. Cultivar Evaluation3▲ 118×1 topic
  40. Genotype-by-Environment Interaction3▲ 118×1 topic

What research is done in Tafo?

Cocoa and Sweet Potato A…22Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy: 22 fractional worksFood Chemistry and Fat Analysis: 6 fractional worksPlant Virus Research Studies: 3 fractional worksNatural Products and Biological Research: 3 fractional worksAfrican Botany and Ecology Studies: 3 fractional worksAgriculture and Rural Development Research: 3 fractional worksGenetics and Plant Breeding: 3 fractional worksCoffee research and impacts: 2 fractional worksPhytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens: 2 fractional worksAgricultural pest management studies: 2 fractional works
HorticultureFood SciencePlant ScienceSurgery3 others

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

  1. 1 Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy Horticulture 22 works
  2. 2 Food Chemistry and Fat Analysis Food Science 6 works
  3. 3 Plant Virus Research Studies Plant Science 3 works
  4. 4 Natural Products and Biological Research Surgery 3 works
  5. 5 African Botany and Ecology Studies Forestry 3 works
  6. 6 Agriculture and Rural Development Research Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 3 works
  7. 7 Genetics and Plant Breeding Plant Science 3 works
  8. 8 Coffee research and impacts Pharmacology 2 works
  9. 9 Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens Plant Science 2 works
  10. 10 Agricultural pest management studies Plant Science 2 works

Research output over time

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.

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