Research in Yaoundé
Science Explorer records 42 research institutions in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Université de Yaoundé I, National Advanced School of Public Works and Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation.
- Research institutions
- 42 12 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 18k ▲ 21% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 208k 11.7 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 11.4% all institutions 10.0%
- Active span
- 1953-2026 74 years on the record
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 Yaoundé?
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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Yaoundé work in?
In 2022-now, 30% of research in Yaoundé is in Health Sciences, 29% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (25%), Social Sciences (11%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (11%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Life Sciences.
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
- Health Sciences1,78229.8%
- Medicine1,48024.8%
- Health Professions2163.6%
- Nursing530.9%
- Dentistry260.4%
- Veterinary80.1%
- Physical Sciences1,76129.5%
- Engineering4437.4%
- Environmental Science4006.7%
- Computer Science3035.1%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1853.1%
- Physics and Astronomy1482.5%
- Materials Science1021.7%
- Mathematics731.2%
- Chemistry611.0%
- Energy400.7%
- Chemical Engineering60.1%
- Social Sciences1,35322.6%
- Social Sciences68511.5%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance2774.6%
- Business, Management and Accounting1382.3%
- Arts and Humanities1141.9%
- Psychology911.5%
- Decision Sciences470.8%
- Life Sciences1,08218.1%
What is Yaoundé strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Yaoundé is most concentrated in Forestry, Virology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (10.1× the world share in Forestry).
- ForestrySubfield · 52.9 works10×
- VirologySubfield · 21.8 works7.4×
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 145.2 works6.1×
- Linguistics and LanguageSubfield · 31.8 works5.5×
- Geochemistry and PetrologySubfield · 27.8 works5.4×
- ParasitologySubfield · 26.3 works4.9×
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.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 2.5×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.45×588 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.23×240 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2.07×164 works
- Nursing2.00×49 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.82×92 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.82×32 works
- Health Professions1.35×179 works
- Environmental Science1.34×335 works
- Medicine1.20×1,166 works
- Physics and Astronomy1.18×133 works
- Mathematics1.10×65 works
- Veterinary0.98×7 works
- Social Sciences0.91×583 works
- Dentistry0.88×22 works
- Energy0.75×34 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.72×193 works
- Arts and Humanities0.72×104 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.71×115 works
- Chemistry0.67×53 works
- Computer Science0.67×264 works
- Decision Sciences0.64×31 works
- Engineering0.52×396 works
- Materials Science0.49×87 works
- Psychology0.47×72 works
- Neuroscience0.34×28 works
- Chemical Engineering0.34×6 works
Which keywords describe research in Yaoundé?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Smallholder Farmers, Climate Change, Governance, Adaptation, Diversity, Agroecology and Agricultural Development.
- Genome Sequence
- Climate Resilience
- Poverty Reduction
- Maternal Mortality
- Mobile Phones
- Inclusive Development
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- ICT
- Genetic Diversity
- Inequality
- Vaccine
- Multifunctionality
- Agricultural Development
- Diversity
- Economic Development
- Economic Growth
- Adaptation
- Globalization
- Smallholder Farmers
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Environmental Impact
- Governance
- Public Health
- Immune Response
- Global Burden
- Agroecology
- Livestock Farming
- Work Organization
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Vaccine Development
- Institutional Quality
- Medicinal Plants
- Knowledge Economy
- Sustainable Agriculture
- financial access
- Agroforestry
- Nutritional Value
- Insecticide Resistance
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
- Epidemiology478▲ 2.0×129 topics
- Climate Change324▲ 1.99×92 topics
- Sustainability232▲ 1.59×76 topics
- Smallholder Farmers184▲ 15×6 topics
- Environmental Impact163▲ 1.60×53 topics
- Globalization160▲ 1.36×86 topics
- Governance152▲ 7.8×13 topics
- Adaptation148▲ 8.3×13 topics
- Public Health146▲ 1.67×58 topics
- Economic Growth141▲ 2.9×25 topics
- Immune Response130▲ 3.8×18 topics
- Economic Development126▲ 2.6×29 topics
- Global Burden125▲ 3.9×12 topics
- Diversity121▲ 12×10 topics
- Agroecology115▲ 14×4 topics
- Agricultural Development113▲ 12×5 topics
- Livestock Farming113▲ 32×2 topics
- Multifunctionality112▲ 40×2 topics
- Work Organization111▲ 48×1 topic
- Vaccine110▲ 4.6×11 topics
- Biodiversity Conservation106▲ 4.7×13 topics
- Inequality101▲ 7.4×14 topics
- Vaccine Development98▲ 6.3×11 topics
- Genetic Diversity97▲ 3.7×21 topics
- Institutional Quality91▲ 15×3 topics
- ICT89▲ 11×4 topics
- Medicinal Plants89▲ 3.8×18 topics
- Antiretroviral Therapy87▲ 9.0×6 topics
- Knowledge Economy82▲ 13×5 topics
- Inclusive Development80▲ 31×2 topics
- Sustainable Agriculture80▲ 4.3×13 topics
- Mobile Phones80▲ 29×1 topic
- financial access80▲ 33×1 topic
- Maternal Mortality78▲ 5.8×5 topics
- Agroforestry77▲ 19×3 topics
- Poverty Reduction74▲ 9.5×5 topics
- Nutritional Value74▲ 11×4 topics
- Climate Resilience66▲ 18×2 topics
- Insecticide Resistance66▲ 14×4 topics
- Genome Sequence57▲ 11×4 topics
What research is done in Yaoundé?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Agriculture and Rural Development Research Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 109 works
- 2 Economic Growth and Development Information Systems 69 works
- 3 African Botany and Ecology Studies Forestry 51 works
- 4 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 38 works
- 5 Malaria Research and Control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 37 works
- 6 Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping Artificial Intelligence 35 works
- 7 Geological and Geochemical Analysis Geophysics 28 works
- 8 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 28 works
- 9 Child Nutrition and Water Access Nutrition and Dietetics 27 works
- 10 Mosquito-borne diseases and control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 27 works
Research output over time
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.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 19.5% in 2016.
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