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Cape Town Science Centre

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Research works
78
▲ 52% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.3k
17.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
54%
world 28%

Not ranked overall: Cape Town Science Centre is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

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: 0.59× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.16× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.86× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.62× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.58× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.88× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.48× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 4.45× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.68× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 2.48× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.25× its world share, 5 worksMedicineNursing: 1.41× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.02× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.25× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.85× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.65× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 4.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Cape Town Science Centre?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Invasive Species, Freshwater Biodiversity, Climate Change, Environmental Governance, Antiretroviral Therapy, Equality, Constitutionalism and Developmental Local Government.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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 12 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 12 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change2▲ 3.6×11 topics
  2. Epidemiology2▲ 2.0×21 topics
  3. Freshwater Biodiversity1▲ 111×2 topics
  4. Invasive Species1▲ 17×5 topics
  5. Antiretroviral Therapy1▲ 31×6 topics
  6. Constitutionalism1▲ 51×1 topic
  7. Developmental Local Government1▲ 444×1 topic
  8. Environmental Governance1▲ 78×2 topics
  9. Environmental Monitoring1▲ 13×2 topics
  10. Equality1▲ 83×2 topics
  11. Human Rights1▲ 4.9×2 topics
  12. Sensor Networks1▲ 19×2 topics

Which research topics does Cape Town Science Centre publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Legal Issues in South Africa, University-Industry-Government Innovation Models and Water Quality Monitoring Technologies.

Fish Ecology and Management Studies: 1 fractional worksLegal Issues in South Africa: 1 fractional worksUniversity-Industry-Gove…1University-Industry-Government Innovation Models: 1 fractional worksWater Quality Monitoring…0Water Quality Monitoring Technologies: 0 fractional worksInformation and Cyber Security: 0 fractional worksEnvironmental Monitoring and Data Management: 0 fractional worksFreshwater macroinverteb…0Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology: 0 fractional worksAdolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: 0 fractional worksHIV/AIDS Research and Interventions: 0 fractional worksQualitative Research Methods and Ethics: 0 fractional works
Nature and Landscape ConservationLawManagement of Technology and InnovationWater Science and Technology6 others

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

  1. 1 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 1 works
  2. 2 Legal Issues in South Africa Law 1 works
  3. 3 University-Industry-Government Innovation Models Management of Technology and Innovation 1 works
  4. 4 Water Quality Monitoring Technologies Water Science and Technology 0 works
  5. 5 Information and Cyber Security Information Systems 0 works
  6. 6 Environmental Monitoring and Data Management Geology 0 works
  7. 7 Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology Ecology 0 works
  8. 8 Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health General Health Professions 0 works
  9. 9 HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Infectious Diseases 0 works
  10. 10 Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics Sociology and Political Science 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 available53.9%not open46.1%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors35.8%domestic only64.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Cape Town Science Centre's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 52% higher than in 2013–2017.

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

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