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Research in Tarkwa

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Tarkwa, Ghana. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Mines and Technology.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1.1k
▲ 16% vs 2018-21
Citations
8.1k
7.6 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
12.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1953-2026
74 years on the record
Tarkwa

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Which research institutions are in Tarkwa?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of Mines and TechnologyUniversity 1,070 #5,801

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 Tarkwa work in?

In 2022-now, 71% of research in Tarkwa is in Physical Sciences, 20% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (37%), Environmental Science (13%), Computer Science (8%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 327 fractional works · 70.5% of its workEngineering: 174 fractional works · 37.5% of its workMechanical Engineering: 32 fractional works · 6.9% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 29 fractional works · 6.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 18 fractional works · 3.9% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 18 fractional works · 3.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 17 fractional works · 3.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 15 fractional works · 3.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 15 fractional works · 3.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 9 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedia Technology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 61 fractional works · 13.1% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 17 fractional works · 3.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 10 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPollution: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Science: 37 fractional works · 7.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 17 fractional works · 3.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workInformation Systems: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 22 fractional works · 4.7% of its workGeophysics: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 12 fractional works · 2.5% of its workModeling and Simulation: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistics and Probability: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workApplied Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNumerical Analysis: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMaterials Science: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomaterials: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemical Health and Safety: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 93 fractional works · 20.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 27 fractional works · 5.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 8 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEducation: 6 fractional works · 1.4% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 22 fractional works · 4.8% of its workAccounting: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness and International Management: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 16 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 11 fractional works · 2.5% of its workFinance: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 13 fractional works · 2.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 10 fractional works · 2.1% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 8 fractional works · 1.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workReligious studies: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 31 fractional works · 6.6% of its workMedicine: 15 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Professions: 13 fractional works · 2.7% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPeriodontics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 13 fractional works · 2.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 9 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPlant Science: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKTarkwa464fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences71%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences20%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering17437.5%
    2. Environmental Science6113.1%
    3. Computer Science377.9%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences224.7%
    5. Mathematics122.5%
    6. Materials Science81.7%
    7. Energy71.5%
    8. Chemistry30.7%
    9. Chemical Engineering20.5%
    10. Physics and Astronomy20.5%
    1. Social Sciences275.8%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting224.8%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance163.5%
    4. Decision Sciences132.9%
    5. Arts and Humanities81.8%
    6. Psychology61.2%
    1. Medicine153.3%
    2. Health Professions132.7%
    3. Dentistry20.4%
    4. Nursing10.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences91.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology30.7%
    3. Neuroscience00.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Which keywords describe research in Tarkwa?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Machine Learning, Remote Sensing, Optimization, Energy Efficiency, Environmental Impact, Support Vector Machines, Metal Recovery and Renewable Energy.

▲ 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. Machine Learning45▲ 2.9×46 topics
  2. Remote Sensing27▲ 4.8×20 topics
  3. Environmental Impact24▲ 3.1×22 topics
  4. Deep Learning23▲ 1.41×39 topics
  5. Renewable Energy21▲ 3.2×23 topics
  6. Energy Efficiency21▲ 4.9×16 topics
  7. Optimization18▲ 8.4×15 topics
  8. Sustainability17▲ 1.52×22 topics
  9. Globalization16▲ 1.79×21 topics
  10. Support Vector Machines15▲ 10.0×7 topics
  11. Metal Recovery14▲ 16×3 topics
  12. Neural Networks13▲ 1.80×14 topics
  13. Environmental Impacts12▲ 9.8×5 topics
  14. Comminution11▲ 70×1 topic
  15. Mineral Liberation Analysis11▲ 70×1 topic
  16. Waste Management10▲ 5.1×4 topics
  17. Uncertainty9▲ 43×2 topics
  18. Stochastic Optimization9▲ 41×2 topics
  19. Open Pit Mining9▲ 138×1 topic
  20. Production Scheduling9▲ 138×1 topic
  21. Hyperspectral Imaging9▲ 7.0×4 topics
  22. Rheological Properties8▲ 10×4 topics
  23. CO2 Sequestration8▲ 8.5×4 topics
  24. Risk Perception8▲ 6.0×4 topics
  25. Rock Mechanics8▲ 17×3 topics
  26. Compositional Data Analysis7▲ 25×1 topic
  27. Mineral Prospectivity7▲ 25×1 topic
  28. Accident Prevention7▲ 23×2 topics
  29. Safety Culture7▲ 23×2 topics
  30. Corporate Social Responsibility7▲ 9.1×2 topics
  31. Rare Earth Elements7▲ 10.0×3 topics
  32. Forecasting7▲ 7.3×5 topics
  33. Workplace Safety6▲ 10×3 topics
  34. Oxidation Mechanism6▲ 18×2 topics
  35. Safety Climate6▲ 15×2 topics
  36. Construction Safety6▲ 19×1 topic
  37. Groundwater6▲ 14×3 topics
  38. Occupational Safety6▲ 14×1 topic
  39. Mining Industry6▲ 63×1 topic
  40. Social License to Operate6▲ 63×1 topic

What research is done in Tarkwa?

Mineral Processing and Grinding: 10 fractional worksMining Techniques and Economics: 8 fractional worksGeochemistry and Geologi…7Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping: 7 fractional worksMining and Resource Mana…5Mining and Resource Management: 5 fractional worksHydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis: 5 fractional worksDrilling and Well Engineering: 5 fractional worksOccupational Health and …4Occupational Health and Safety Research: 4 fractional worksMetal Extraction and Bioleaching: 4 fractional worksRock Mechanics and Modeling: 4 fractional worksReservoir Engineering an…4Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods: 4 fractional works
Mechanical EngineeringControl and Systems EngineeringArtificial IntelligenceBuilding and Construction4 others

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

  1. 1 Mineral Processing and Grinding Mechanical Engineering 10 works
  2. 2 Mining Techniques and Economics Control and Systems Engineering 8 works
  3. 3 Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping Artificial Intelligence 7 works
  4. 4 Mining and Resource Management Building and Construction 5 works
  5. 5 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 5 works
  6. 6 Drilling and Well Engineering Ocean Engineering 5 works
  7. 7 Occupational Health and Safety Research Radiological and Ultrasound Technology 4 works
  8. 8 Metal Extraction and Bioleaching Biomedical Engineering 4 works
  9. 9 Rock Mechanics and Modeling Mechanics of Materials 4 works
  10. 10 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods Ocean Engineering 4 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%Tarkwa16.9% 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 16.9% in 2025.

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