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African Refuge

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Research works
6
▲ 41% vs 2018-21
Citations
39
6.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
56%
world 40%
International
31%
world 18%
African Refuge

Not ranked overall: African Refuge is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does African Refuge work in?

In all years, 76% of research at African Refuge is in Social Sciences, 23% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (38%), Psychology (27%), Health Professions (21%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 5 fractional works · 76.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 37.5% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 16.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 10.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 5.3% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 5.1% of its workDevelopment: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 26.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 21.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 5.3% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 5.3% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 5.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 3.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 23.3% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 21.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 21.1% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workALL ITS WORKAfrican Refuge6fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences0%Health Sciences23%Social Sciences76%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 3 domains and 9 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences237.5%
    2. Psychology226.8%
    3. Arts and Humanities05.3%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting03.5%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance03.0%
    1. Health Professions121.1%
    2. Medicine01.9%
    3. Nursing00.3%
    1. Computer Science00.5%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Computer Science: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceHealth Professions: 2.46× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksMedicineNursing: 1.85× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 5.97× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.02× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 17.42× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.82× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
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Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 17.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 8 fields, with their numbers
  1. Psychology17.42×1 works
  2. Arts and Humanities5.97×0 works
  3. Health Professions2.46×0 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.02×0 works
  5. Nursing1.85×0 works
  6. Social Sciences0.82×0 works
  7. Medicine0.33×0 works
  8. Computer Science0.17×0 works

What are the most cited papers from African Refuge?

The most cited paper from African Refuge is "Mental Health Concerns Among African Immigrants" (Homer Venters, Olayinka Adekugbe, Jacob Massaquoi et al., 2010), with 49 citations. Next come "In the interest of saving: Refugee‐led microfinance in Kampala, Uganda" (17) and "Group Counseling with Traumatized East African Refugee Women in the United States:" (16).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mental Health Concerns Among African Immigrants Homer Venters, Olayinka Adekugbe, Jacob Massaquoi et al. · Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 12 Jun 2010 49
2 In the interest of saving: Refugee‐led microfinance in Kampala, Uganda Evan Easton‐Calabria, Robert Hakiza · Development Policy Review Open access 17 Apr 2020 17
3 Group Counseling with Traumatized East African Refugee Women in the United States: Michael I. Loewy, DiAnna Toliver Williams, Aster Keleta · The Journal for Specialists in Group Work Jun 2002 16
4 Can Redistribution Change Policy Views? Aid and Attitudes toward Refugees Travis Baseler, Thomas C. Ginn, Robert Hakiza et al. · Journal of Political Economy 17 Apr 2025 5
5 Findings from the Tushirikiane-4-MH (supporting each other for mental health) mobile health–supported virtual reality randomized controlled trial among urban refugee youth in Kampala, Uganda Carmen Hellen Logie, Moses Okumu, Zerihun Admassu et al. · Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health Open access 2025 5
All 12 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does African Refuge publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Migration, Health and Trauma, Resilience and Mental Health, Art Therapy and Mental Health and Counseling Practices and Supervision.

Migration, Health and Tr…0Migration, Health and Trauma: 0 fractional worksResilience and Mental Health: 0 fractional worksArt Therapy and Mental Health: 0 fractional worksCounseling Practices and…0Counseling Practices and Supervision: 0 fractional worksMigration and Labor Dynamics: 0 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Child Health: 0 fractional worksHealthcare Systems and Reforms: 0 fractional worksInternational Development and Aid: 0 fractional worksMigration, Refugees, and Integration: 0 fractional works
Clinical PsychologyConservationSocial PsychologySociology and Political Science3 others

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

  1. 1 Migration, Health and Trauma Clinical Psychology 0 works
  2. 2 Resilience and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 0 works
  3. 3 Art Therapy and Mental Health Conservation 0 works
  4. 4 Counseling Practices and Supervision Social Psychology 0 works
  5. 5 Migration and Labor Dynamics Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  6. 6 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 0 works
  7. 7 Healthcare Systems and Reforms Finance 0 works
  8. 8 International Development and Aid Development 0 works
  9. 9 Migration, Refugees, and Integration Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  10. 10 COVID-19 and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available56.0%not open44.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors30.8%domestic only69.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has African Refuge's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 41% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is African Refuge as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000020% in 2024.

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Fractional works of African Refuge over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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