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In research, AMPATH stands highest in Health Sciences (#9,235 of 16,688 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#28,922
of 34,923
Rank in Kenya
#78
of 88
Research works
181
▲ 6% vs 2018-21
Citations
3.1k
16.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.95×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
80%
world 40%
International
82%
world 18%
AMPATH

What is AMPATH known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Health SciencesDomain #9,235 of 16,688 10.9%136

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where AMPATH sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does AMPATH work in?

In 2022-now, 76% of research at AMPATH is in Health Sciences, 15% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (60%), Health Professions (14%), Social Sciences (6%). It does 2.9× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 48 fractional works · 75.5% of its workMedicine: 38 fractional works · 59.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 8 fractional works · 11.7% of its workInfectious Diseases: 7 fractional works · 10.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 5 fractional works · 7.8% of its workOncology: 4 fractional works · 5.9% of its workEpidemiology: 3 fractional works · 5.3% of its workHematology: 2 fractional works · 3.2% of its workEmergency Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMicrobiology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFamily Practice: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Professions: 9 fractional works · 14.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 8 fractional works · 12.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 10 fractional works · 15.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 5.7% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 3.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 4.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 3.5% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLife Sciences: 4 fractional works · 6.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 3.1% of its workVirology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workParasitology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKAMPATH64fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences76%Social Sciences15%

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 institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine3859.9%
    2. Health Professions914.3%
    3. Nursing11.2%
    4. Dentistry00.1%
    1. Social Sciences45.7%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance34.6%
    3. Psychology22.9%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting11.1%
    5. Arts and Humanities00.6%
    6. Decision Sciences00.5%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology23.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences11.6%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.2%
    4. Neuroscience00.6%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Environmental Science11.3%
    2. Mathematics00.6%
    3. Computer Science00.4%
    4. Engineering00.3%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 3.04× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.38× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.49× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsDentistry: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 5.42× its world share, 9 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 3.12× its world share, 38 worksMedicineNursing: 2.45× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.34× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.57× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.14× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.94× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.45× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 5.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions5.42×9 works
  2. Medicine3.12×38 works
  3. Immunology and Microbiology3.04×2 works
  4. Nursing2.45×1 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.14×3 works
  6. Psychology0.94×2 works
  7. Decision Sciences0.57×0 works
  8. Mathematics0.49×0 works
  9. Social Sciences0.45×4 works
  10. Neuroscience0.38×0 works
  11. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.34×1 works
  12. Business, Management and Accounting0.34×1 works
  13. Environmental Science0.27×1 works
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.23×1 works
  15. Arts and Humanities0.22×0 works
  16. Dentistry0.21×0 works
  17. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.11×0 works
  18. Computer Science0.05×0 works
  19. Engineering0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at AMPATH?

Ranked on the quality score, Julius Barasa, Monicah Nyambura and Beatrice K. Jakait lead among researchers whose main affiliation is AMPATH.

  1. 1 Julius Barasa Kenya · #2,460,938 worldwide 105 citations · 19 works
  2. 2 Monicah Nyambura Kenya · #2,672,891 worldwide 274 citations · 16 works
  3. 3 Beatrice K. Jakait Kenya · #3,004,107 worldwide 327 citations · 24 works
  4. 4 Job Kisuya Kenya · #4,312,868 worldwide 249 citations · 17 works
  5. 5 Mercy Maina Kenya · #4,744,944 worldwide 157 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at AMPATH

What are the most cited papers from AMPATH?

The most cited paper from AMPATH is "Patient-Reported Barriers to Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" (Zara Shubber, Edward J. Mills, Jean Bisimwa Nachega et al., 2016), with 552 citations. Next come "Validity/Reliability of PHQ-9 and PHQ-2 Depression Scales Among Adults Living with HIV/AIDS in Western Kenya" (473) and "Mental health challenges among adolescents living with HIV" (344).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Patient-Reported Barriers to Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Zara Shubber, Edward J. Mills, Jean Bisimwa Nachega et al. · PLoS Medicine ReviewOpen access 29 Nov 2016 552
2 Validity/Reliability of PHQ-9 and PHQ-2 Depression Scales Among Adults Living with HIV/AIDS in Western Kenya Patrick O. Monahan, Enbal Shacham, Michael Reece et al. · Journal of General Internal Medicine Open access 19 Nov 2008 473
3 Mental health challenges among adolescents living with HIV Rachel Vreeman, Brittany M. McCoy, Sonia Lee · Journal of the International AIDS Society Open access May 2017 344
4 Disclosure of HIV status to children in resource‐limited settings: a systematic review Rachel Vreeman, Anna Maria Gramelspacher, Peter Gisore et al. · Journal of the International AIDS Society ReviewOpen access 2013 252
5 A Systematic Review of Pediatric Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Rachel Vreeman, Sarah E. Wiehe, Emily C. Pearce et al. · The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal Review Aug 2008 204
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at AMPATH?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Antiretroviral Therapy, Risk Factors, Mortality Rates, Epidemiology, HIV Transmission, Preexposure Prophylaxis, Stigma and Discrimination and Maternal Mortality.

▲ 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 institution'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. Epidemiology9▲ 3.5×28 topics
  2. Antiretroviral Therapy8▲ 73×5 topics
  3. Mortality Rates7▲ 108×2 topics
  4. Risk Factors7▲ 9.3×8 topics
  5. HIV Transmission5▲ 108×2 topics
  6. Preexposure Prophylaxis5▲ 160×1 topic
  7. Stigma and Discrimination5▲ 160×1 topic
  8. Maternal Mortality4▲ 30×4 topics
  9. HIV Prevention4▲ 107×2 topics
  10. Adolescent Health4▲ 76×1 topic
  11. Cancer Incidence4▲ 45×4 topics
  12. Global Burden4▲ 11×8 topics
  13. Sexual Behavior4▲ 176×1 topic
  14. Community Health Workers4▲ 65×2 topics
  15. Health Inequalities4▲ 44×2 topics
  16. Child Mortality3▲ 74×1 topic
  17. Health Systems3▲ 74×1 topic
  18. Vaccine Development2▲ 15×3 topics
  19. Cervical Cancer2▲ 29×2 topics
  20. Chronic Disease Management2▲ 14×5 topics
  21. HIV Infection2▲ 26×2 topics
  22. Human Papillomavirus2▲ 23×3 topics
  23. Poverty Reduction2▲ 21×3 topics
  24. Transplant Recipients2▲ 48×3 topics
  25. Viral Oncoproteins2▲ 44×2 topics
  26. Behavior Change2▲ 18×2 topics
  27. Cytology Screening2▲ 55×1 topic
  28. HIV/AIDS2▲ 41×3 topics
  29. HPV Vaccination2▲ 55×1 topic
  30. Health Disparities2▲ 10×4 topics
  31. Medical Education2▲ 10×5 topics
  32. Conditional Cash Transfers2▲ 69×1 topic
  33. Population-Based Study2▲ 37×2 topics
  34. School Subsidies2▲ 69×1 topic
  35. Breast Cancer Screening2▲ 52×1 topic
  36. Global Surveillance2▲ 52×1 topic
  37. Artemisinin Resistance1▲ 64×1 topic
  38. Global Burden of Disease1▲ 8.6×3 topics
  39. Myocardial Infarction1▲ 9.0×2 topics
  40. Plasmodium falciparum1▲ 64×1 topic

Which research topics does AMPATH publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, Global Maternal and Child Health and Cervical Cancer and HPV Research.

HIV/AIDS Research and In…5HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 5 fractional worksAdolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: 4 fractional worksGlobal Maternal and Child Health: 3 fractional worksCervical Cancer and HPV Research: 2 fractional worksPoverty, Education, and Child Welfare: 2 fractional worksGlobal Cancer Incidence …2Global Cancer Incidence and Screening: 2 fractional worksMalaria Research and Control: 1 fractional worksActinomycetales infections and treatment: 1 fractional worksHIV-related health complications and treatments: 1 fractional worksMosquito-borne diseases and control: 1 fractional works
Infectious DiseasesGeneral Health ProfessionsPediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthEpidemiology5 others

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

  1. 1 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 5 works
  2. 2 Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health General Health Professions 4 works
  3. 3 Global Maternal and Child Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 3 works
  4. 4 Cervical Cancer and HPV Research Epidemiology 2 works
  5. 5 Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare Safety Research 2 works
  6. 6 Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Oncology 2 works
  7. 7 Malaria Research and Control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 works
  8. 8 Actinomycetales infections and treatment Microbiology 1 works
  9. 9 HIV-related health complications and treatments Emergency Medicine 1 works
  10. 10 Mosquito-borne diseases and control Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 1 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 available79.5%not open20.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors82.0%domestic only18.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has AMPATH's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting20052010201520202025
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is AMPATH as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00024% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%AMPATH0.00018% in 202520102020

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

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